This document introduces tools for creating, storing, sharing, publishing, and curating digital content online for free. It discusses services like Google and Microsoft for writing and storing files, Flickr and Jolidrive for photo storage, and video platforms. It also covers finding content through sites like Creative Commons, getting social on platforms, and publishing through blogs, WordPress, or Scoop.it. Advanced options discussed include virtual learning environments like Moodle for interactive teaching and forums. The overall message is that there are now many excellent free online resources for digital creativity, learning, and establishing an online presence.

1. The Web, my browser and me
Melanie Leggatt
IT and CALL Officer
Modern and Medieval Languages
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2. What you can achieve with a computer, a network connection
and your inspiration

3. And no money

4. A bit of a gallop so lots of supporting links available online after the session

5. Some assumptions

6. Primarily – that this isn't you

7. Quite the opposite – that you're bubbling over with ideas

8. You just need the tools to make it happen

9. Introducing you to these tools, where to find them and the possibilities
is the focus of this session

10. Caveat emptor

11. First rule of web design - start with pencil and paper
The appropriate use of technology

12. Only when you've successfully defined your goals should you start using digital tools
Otherwise you risk going round and round in circles

13. Getting the basic building blocks right will make using and creating cool stuff
later on much easier

14. Traditional language labs were very expensive and
often left students bored and unenthused

15. With Web 2.0 things have changed! Today there are too many excellent resourc

16. Before we go any further, an aside about Web 2.0 – just what is it?

17. Initially with Web 1.0 we all tooled up and went shopping, then something changed. . .
We stopped being merely consumers and started creating instead. Web
2.0 meant write access for all!

18. Lots of people posted their own resources and made them freely
available for sharing

19. Writing for the Web became accessible and easier – no longer the sole domain of geeks

20. Today, the challenge lies in developing the skills to find what you want

21. So, we have whole world of digital creativity to explore

22. Creating
Sharing
Publishing and
Curating

23. Chargeable proprietary, proprietary at no cost vs freely distributed

24. Free offerings from commercial companies, or are they?
If it seems to good to be true, is it? An informed choice

25. 1. Creating and storing

26. Writing online. Offerings from e.g. Google and Microsoft

27. Sharing online. With colleagues, friends or students

28. Downloading free office suites and then storing your files online
at no cost

29. Photo storage and editing and sharing
Flickr now offer 1 terabyte of storage

30. And video storage and editing too!

31. Services like Jolidrive provide a one-stop portal for you to access your
documents and storage

32. They can even tell you how much storage you can amass
Over 20 gigabytes of storage are on offer here

33. But there is no excuse for not keeping a local backup of your files

34. 1. Creating and storing
REVIEW
Creating
Storing
Editing
All at no cost

35. 2. Sharing

36. Collecting other people's resources – legitimately
sharing your own

37. Using other people's materials legitimately means you can relax
about posting your work online

38. And you can chill out knowing you've reciprocally shared back

39. So how do we find all this stuff?

40. One-stop shop
The Creative Commons 1,000s images, sound and video files

41. Listings of online radio stations Or newspapers

42. cultural and educational media sites

43. And guides to television channel listings

44. Reviewed listings of the best sites

45. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel

46. So you've created or found lots of content
How do you take it to the next level?

47. GETTING SOCIAL

48. One of the best potted definitions of social media around

49. Clearly, some aspects of social media are more relevant
to your professional life than others

50. Places to be seen. . .

51. Sharing resources, discovering new ones, joining groups, making contacts

52. Lots of very active groups out there

53. Follow the most productive blogs

54. Use the review sites to make the most of the specialist social media sites

55. Which neatly takes us back to systems like diigo to help us manage all this information

56. Other social media sites probably aren't so useful. What of FB?

57. Too much leakage. Keep your personal and professional profiles separate

58. 2. Sharing
REVIEW
Searching
Getting social
Being seen
All at no cost

59. 3. Publishing and curating

60. 3. Publishing and curating

61. So you've acquired all this great stuff
LEARNING
You want to organise it for yourself
TEACHING
You want to share it with students
IDENTITY
You want to include it in your site to
establish your online profile

62. Thankfully for us, publishing is now as easy as falling off the proverbial log

63. Achieving it with style and elegance still takes some skill though

64. The best of the best publishing tools

65. Scoop.it – curating and displaying your favourite content
created by you and others

66. User-friendly content systems like Wordpress (or Blogger) make creative publishing easy

67. If you can insert an image in a Word document you CAN drive Wordpress

68. Excellent support, customisation and content integration

69. Full multilingual support

70. Ernesto Priego's Wordpress site is a good example of what an
individual can achieve on their own

71. More examples

72. a superior film criticism website with post-doctoral contributors
Why not invite contributors to your site?

73. Catherine Grant’s http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.co.uk/

74. Ruth Page’s http://www.digitalnarratives.blogspot.co.uk/

75. Benny Lewis'
Over 500,000 readers

76. Bab.la – check out what other people have done

77. for pure interdisciplinary inspiration http://ted.com

78. Some advanced inspiration for teaching. . .

79. Forums and
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
Get hands-on and interactive with your students

80. Moodle is free and can run on a very modest computer
The Computing Service can host it, or you can pay for a commercial site

81. The OU system is based on (an albeit very customised version of)
Moodle

82. Fluency practice
Writing development
Managing and mashing together content
Quizzes
Grading
Student interaction with and without your input
All possible in VLEs like Moodle

83. All these tools can be fully integrated – do as much or as little as you like

84. What next?

85. All these tools can be fully integrated – do as much or as little as you like

86. Explore the links on the page we'll supply you with

87. What next. . .

88. www-chucol.mml.cam.ac.uk

89. Email with ideas