Examples:

Familiarize students with digital sources

My course includes a Library and Information Literacy assignment module designed to address digital literacy and using sources. This module contains a discussion along with a quiz designed as a learning tool and formative assessment. Each of the questions in the quiz presents the students with an online resource to be assessed or with information about how to include sources in their writing, including citations and how to avoid plagiarism. After completing this module, students take a quiz to assess their understanding of the concepts covered in the module.

Grow students' ability to suss out sources

While I was taking the Digital Citizenship course, I learned about the Stanford History Education Group's Civic Online Reasoning resource. Since then, I incorporate a few of their online literacy activities in my courses. These activities range from assessing the validity of a claim made on Twitter to evaluating the purpose and credibility of a website or the argument made in a YouTube video. These activities allow my students to practice analyzing online information in a number of popular forms that are accessible and relevant to their daily lives. This resource provides the assessment and rubric, and I registered with the site so I can customize the assessments.

Model ethical use of sources

Part of being a responsible digital citizen includes using online sources responsibly. I model acknowledging sources in the content I create for my courses, and I rely on Creative Commons licensed or freely available content to incorporate. Here, again, the @ONE courses model responsible use of outside sources. I learned handy ways of incorporating and citing such sources and about licensing, such as Creative Commons. This has afforded me the opportunity to enliven my course content with relevant images and audio-visual sources in ways I had not done before. Here is an example of acknowledging a source licensed under Creative Commons in one of my course pages.

Engage students in the digital world

One way I encourage my students to connect with a global audience and to participate on that level in a meaningful way is to design a course activity that engages their contribution to a global audience. For example, in one of my course activities, students create a meme that addresses an issue of importance to them and they publish it to a social media platform. This activity requires students to learn about audience, purpose, and message, and they enjoy the creativity it allows.

In a new assignment, I designed an activity to review and update a Wikipedia resource. I learned about this idea in the Dynamic Online Teaching course, and while I have not yet had a chance to use it in a course, I look forward to doing so soon. I particularly look forward to this assignment because it encourages students' curiosity while strengthening their research and analysis skills.

Provide opportunities to create using digital tools

As part of their digital presence, I'm having my students create more content that resides on these digital platforms.

One project required students to focus on getting across their message effectively and persuasively using digital platforms outside Canvas. The project below was created using Adobe Spark--a platform I learned about in Humanizing Online Learning. I put the new platform to use in my next class and made it available to my students. They remarked that it was fun to use Spark, a new platform for them, and they enjoyed collaborating together on it.