This document discusses digital literacy and professional development from a multimedia perspective for teaching and learning forums in Ireland. It provides tips on managing information and events using tools like Evernote, and outlines various conferences and chats for connecting and collaborating online. It emphasizes lifelong learning and sharing, and how new literacies around research, publishing, and rich media production need to be incorporated more fully into classrooms and learning workflows. The document advocates embracing mainstream technologies now available and connecting and collaborating through professional learning networks to help bridge digital divides.

1. Digital Literacy
and Professional Development
A CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA PERSPECTIVE IN #HEIE
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2. 2Observations for Ireland’s Teaching & Learning Forum

3. Please Tweet Your Thoughts #heie
@topgold on Twitter +BernieGoldbach on G+
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5. Manage Your Info
 Vet Trusted sources.
 Follow clever influencers.
 Establish a routine.
 Try Evernote.
 Synch across devices.
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Asking Evernote.

6. Manage Events
 #edchatie on Mondays
 #ictedu in early May
 #ilta14 in late May
 #excited2014 in late May
 #elss2014 in late June
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Mindmap in Evernote.

7. Literacy as Process
 Continuous Professional
Development
 Lifelong Learning
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8. You need to manage screens
One foot away Three feet away Ten feet away
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10. One Foot Away
Your closest digital touchpoint is
handheld.
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11. Three Feet Away
Refine your collaboration as you
prepare and improve classroom
presentations.
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12. Ten Feet Away
You grab content from big screens.
Sometimes the bottom third of those
screens have contextual value.
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13. Digital Divide Separates Educators
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORKS BRIDGE DIVIDES.
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14. The Lifelong Learning
Imperative
 Learn to share.
 Sharing is a social skill.
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15. Literacy is more
than reading and writing.
YOU MUST HUNT, GATHER, CURATE AND SHARE.
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16. “New Literacy”
IT IS NOT A TRUE IMPERATIVE IN MANY PLANNING DOCUMENTS.
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17. New Literacy in Classrooms
• Research skills
• Publishing skills
• ePortfolios
• Rich Media Production
• Responsive Content
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18. New Literacy Workflows
• Productive processes
• Scrumwise
• Collaboration
• Mobile conferences
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19. Learning to Learn
• Teach students how to stay relevant.
• Flexible learning through routines.
• Collabortive dimension.
• Self-directed process.
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20. Life in the BYOD World
• Embraces mainstream technology that was not
available five years ago.
• “Please stop blocking” our smart screens.
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21. To be truly
educated
CONNECT AND COLLABORATE
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22. Promising Digital Landscape Ahead
Pew Research, March 2014, Digital Life in 2025
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23. Connect and Collaborate
 Monday evenings using #edchatie on Twitter
 10 May at #ictedu in LIT-Thurles
 29 May at #ilta in UCD
 30 May at #excited2014 in Dublin Castle
 23-27 June at #elss14 in DIT
 Online by sharing your curated content
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24. +Bernie Goldbach
Google.com/+BernieGoldbach
@topgold on good social networks
InsideView.ie
+353 86 174 3369
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