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Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. Reflect on their own capacities for using computers and the digital environment for specific purposes, and improve in self-identified areas;

2. Search for and download digital content related to a specific area of focus;

3. Critique digital content and evaluate it for credibility;

4. Use a variety of basic computer applications relevant to 最新糖心Vlog study;

5. Use advanced online communication tools such as Skype and Virtual Classroom;

6. Adapt to new digital environments and computer applications;

7. Find and use resources to help digital adaptation, and troubleshoot problems in negotiating digital environments;

8. Create digital content and share it publicly or privately via the Web 2.0 environment.

A specific aim of this course is to encourage students to explore and find their own resources that they can use to support their learning in the digital environment. Therefore the course will not provide all the  resources that students need to succeed, but will suggest resources that may be explored further independently.

Due ot the nature of this course it is absolutely essential that students use MyUni as a baseline resource for information and communication. MyUni will be supplemented by various digital resources as directed by the learner.

The World Wide Web (or Internet) is full of a very large number of resources to help you learn how to do all manner of things, especially related to using technology. Obviously Google it a gateway to a large number of resources on the Web, all of varying quality. Some of the other resources you might like to explore include:

 
 
 
 

If you are interested in creating video, there are some suggested video creation tools here:  

Some good sites for creating your own blog or website include:



 

Good (free) tools for developing other digital content (including games) include:





Of course, it is very important for you to be able to evaluate the quality and reliability of sources you find on the Internet. For example, the Unity engine (above) is very sophisticated and complex and may be too detailed for you to use in this course. Wikipedia can also be highly variable in the quality of entries, although it also has some checks and balances to highlight when there may be problems with  the content. Many of these resources (especially Wikipedia) are especially useful not in and of themselves, but as a pathway to other useful sources and resources.

If you are unsure of the quality or reliability of anything you find on the Web, start a discussion about it! Ask you fellow students for their opinions in person or on MyUni, and the lecturer might be able to give
you some good advice. Don’t just assume that because it’s there you should use it, because digital critical literacy is one of the main skills you are supposed to develop in this course.

Almost all learning in this course will happen online, and this means much more than just using MyUni (although this is an important resource as well). The purpose of this course is to encourage facility with using computers and the internet through immersion, so almost everything you do will be online. Class is just an opportunity to ask questions and get support in a face-to-face environment.

MyUni will be used for essential communication including via email, so please check your 最新糖心Vlog email regularly (at least three times a week). If you have a smartphone it is strongly recommended that you set up your email on it for easy and regular access to your 最新糖心Vlog email. For guidance on how to do this, visit:

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Remember, the most useful portal for all 最新糖心Vlog online activities is Unified:

Rather than an ICT competency-based approach that seeks to give students skills in using discrete computer applications for future use in study, this course uses an inquiry-based learning approach.  Therefore, students are required to begin with their own passion or interest and develop their own  learning activities (facilitated by the teacher) to achieve the learning outcomes of the course. The course will focus on adapting to and inhabiting the digital environment (particularly in the World Wide Web) for self-identified goals. This is because the digital environment is changing so rapidly that you may be required to use computer applications that have not been invented yet: this also applies to your  professional life after 最新糖心Vlog.

Due to this unique approach to digital literacies, there will be limited direct instruction in class. The focus will not be on a teacher giving instructions on how to use a particular computer application,  although this will occasionally happen (mostly in lectures). Rather, the focus will be on students  exploring the digital environment for applications and resources that allows them to develop a project of their own choosing. The teacher will be available to guide students and help solve problems, but will facilitate learning rather than transmit knowledge.

Broadly, the course will shift from downloading to uploading. In other words, the beginning of the semester will focus on retrieving information from the Web, and comprehending and critiquing it through synthesis with other sources. Later in the semester students will begin to develop their own digital content that they will share (privately or publicly) via the Web. The focus is on the activities used to create and share the created digital artefact, rather than its actual content. However, there will also be a focus on evaluating, critiquing, and synthesising information and data found in digital sources.

Workload
1 x 1 hour lecture per week (12)	12 hours
1 x 2 hour tutorial per week (12)	24 hours
1x 4 hour directed digital activities per week and participation in online discussions (x12)	48 hours
6 hours per week primary research and independent digital activities (x12)	72 hours
Total	156 hours

Schedule

	Lecture	Tutorial
Week 1	Introduction: Course overview; Introductions; MyUni	Student Survey; digital literacy self-assessment and goal-setting
Week 2	Searching the Web: basic techniques; Advanced  searching; Plagiarism	Basic topic searches; Critiquing digital information
Week 3	Storing and processing information: Storage  Devices; File & Folder Organization; Word, PPT Basics Review	Advanced features of MS Word; formulae, PPT
Week 4	Image & Video: editing formats, techniques	Using image, video and imports in MS programs
Week 5	Weblogs: MyUni, WordPress, Blogger; Wikis; Digital Glossary	Project introduction
Week 6	Building websites: Google Sites	Google Sites Tools introduction; Project Proposal development
Week 7	Creating Surveys Overview EXCEL; Social media: Facebook, Twitter, and, LinkedIn others	Class discussion: social media
Week 8	Basic website design: Traditional vs Cloud; Cloud storage: Google Drive and Dropbox	Project development
Week 9	Apps vs Websites	Class discussion: topic TBA
Week 10	Advanced communication technologies: Skype and Virtual Classroom	Project development
Week 11	Sample project presentations	Class discussion/project development
Week 12	Presenting projects

For clarification on which dates correspond to which weeks, please
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To pass this course, students must attend at least 75% of tutorials; in cases of absence for medical or compassionate reasons, documentation must be provided and students must still attend at least 50% of classes. If students fail to attend the minimum required number of tutorials, they will be considered to have not completed an assignment (see below).

Ongoing (online and in class)
Participation (word count n/a)
Weighting: 10%
Objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Week 3 (Friday 5pm)
Digital Literacy Reflective Journal 1 (500 words)
Weighting: 10%
Objectives: 1, 3, 6, 7

Week 8 (Friday 5pm)
Formative Project Proposal (approx. 500 words)
Weighting: 20%
Objectives: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8

Week 11 (Friday 5pm)
Digital Literacy Reflective Journal 2 including evidence (750 words)
Weighting: 15%
Objectives: 1, 3, 6, 7

End of semester (Friday 5pm, Swotvac week)
Summative Assignment: Digital portfolio (1500 words or equivalent as negotiated):
Due: end of Swotvac week
Weighting: 45%
Objectives: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

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Students must attempt all assessment tasks to pass this course. Since the 最新糖心Vlog Preparatory Program is designed to prepare students for success at 最新糖心Vlog, completing and submitting all assignments is central to the intended learning outcomes of the program and each course within it. Often, at least attempting and submitting assignments in the face of difficulty or adversity is enough for success at 最新糖心Vlog and the UPP encourages this resilience by employing this policy in select courses. Please note that the absolute last date for the submission of assignments in Semester 1 is the end of Swot Vac week, which is one week after the final assignment is due.

If a student fails to submit all assessment tasks and would otherwise have received a grade greater than 45, they will be given a nominal grade of 45 (Fail) for that course in that semester. This will permit them to undertake additional assessment (formerly called academic supplementary assessment) at the  Course Coordinator’s discretion, as per policy at  

It is not necessary to apply for additional assessment; this assessment will usually consist of the missed pieces of assessment, but the course coordinator may require more. As per policy 9.1.3.3, if the student
passes the additional assessment to the Course Coordinator’s satisfaction, the maximum grade they can get for the course is 50 (Pass). If a student’s raw grade is below 45, regardless of whether all tasks have been attempted, this score will stand unless exceptional, documented circumstances apply as per the 最新糖心Vlog’s Modified Arrangements for Coursework Assessment: /student/exams/mod_arrange.html 

Substantial non-engagement in this course (evidenced by repeated non-attendance at tutorials and failure to submit assessments) may result in students being withdrawn from the 最新糖心Vlog Preparatory Program and being required to apply for reinstatement if they wish to continue.

In addition to the details below, further details (including grading rubrics) will be made available in class and on MyUni. Please contact the Lecturer if you have any queries about assessment requirements.

Participation

This course include numerous activities to be undertaken both online and in class, and require you to complete a number of tasks to demonstrate that you are able to use basic ICT software in the course of your study. Your achievement of each of these tasks will be recorded and will contribute towards the Participation component of your grade - if at any time you need an update on how you are doing in your participation grade, please ask the Lecturer.

Digital Literacy Reflective Journals

This assignment is similar to what you will be expected to undertake in “Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?”: 最新糖心Vlog Culture, but it will focus more specifically on your experience, goals, and strategies using computers and the Internet, rather than general 最新糖心Vlog study. The two components of this  assignment are as follows:

Reflective Journal 1

This first journal is designed to encourage you to reflect explicitly and systematically on your past experiences with computers, the Internet, and the digital environment more generally. Think in detail about your past experience (or lack thereof) with computers, and the skills this experience has given you, as well as the gaps in skills that you currently have as a result of this past experience. What kinds of computer applications are you familiar with already? What new computer applications do you think you might like to learn how to use? (Examples could be building a website, writing a blog, creating, editing, and uploading a video to Youtube: be as creative as possible.) What learning goals will you set for yourself for this course?

Also, in this reflection you will be required to outline in very brief terms your project for the major assessment. In doing this you should think of what you are most passionate about: what gets you out of bed in the morning, what do you enjoy spending time on, what hobbies, sports, or pursuits do you share with friends? It doesn’t have to have anything to do with your current or projected 最新糖心Vlog study, but it should be something that motivates and drives you. You will be required to share this area of interest with the teacher and the rest of the class, and use this project to show how you have developed your ICT Literacies in accordance with the learning objectives of this course.

Reflective Journal 2 - including evidence

This journal is much more focussed on a specific activity you are undertaking as a part of your project. Instead of a general reflection on your past use of computers and future goals for the course, you are required to report on a specific computer application or program and how effective it has been for you. For example, if you are creating a blog or website with Wordpress, what has your experience of it been? What has been useful or easy about using the tool, and what has posed challenges? How did you deal with these challenges? How will you use this tool or process for your portfolio, or would you rather use another tool? What are some of the other tools that might do the same things, and what are the relative benefits or disadvantages of each?

The second reflective journal also requires you to provide evidence of your learning so far in digital literacy. Therefore you are required to include examples of the tasks you have undertaken in class (or during the preparation of your major project) with some reflection on what they mean for your learning. What specifically did you learn in completing this task? What challenges did you encounter? This is a good opportunity to make use of some of the outputs that you may not be able to include in your final project: for example drafts, or failed experiments.

Formative Project Proposal

This assignment gives you an opportunity to share your ideas for your project, in the form of a project proposal. In this way you can get feedback from the lecturer as well as your fellow students on how your ideas are progressing and shaping up towards your final project. The kinds of questions you might like to consider include:

* What is your project going to be about? What is the content? How does this link to your passion?
* What kind of media or digital tools are you going to use to create your project?
* What do you already know about these tools, and what do you need to learn? What are the challenges likely to be? What are you worried about?
* Where do you think you might go for help on using the tool? Have you found any good resources (websites, videos) that help explain how to use the tool? (Hint: use Google to find these kinds of resources.)

NB: this assignment must be submitted using the 'Blogs' function of MyUni: go to the Assignments folder and you will see it there. Also, part of this assignment is to comment on other students' blogs: by one week after the due date you are expected to have commented on at least two other student blogs. Give them whatever feedback you think might help them: encouragement, advice, ideas, offers of help, areas for improvement. In this way everyone can help everyone else produce a better piece of work.

Major assignment: Digital Portfolio

This is the major assignment for this course, and you should work on it through the whole semester. Because it is a project, it is not supposed to be done in a week before it is due, and it should show  evidence of extended work throughout the whole semester.

The digital portfolio is not a single piece of writing or a single document. It is a collection of evidence that you have achieved the learning outcomes of this course. The responsibility is on you to demonstrate your learning in this course. You may choose a single “digital artefact” as the core of your portfolio: for example, if you have created a video or piece of music which has taken substantial work, it may form the core of your digital portfolio. Crucially, your digital portfolio should be shareable: it should be potentially shared publicly on the World Wide Web (although for this assignment you don’t have to share it publicly). For example, if you have created a video, you should be able to share it via Youtube or another system.

Although your project is inherently creative, it should also include some form of synthesis. This means that you’ll need to find, use, and combine various sources, pieces of information, or other digital artefacts that you have found in the course of your research. This is because in creating something original at university, you must base your new creation on previous knowledge.

You may choose to include some reflective writing as a part of your portfolio. Although you cannot include either of the reflective writing journals that you have already done for this course, you might like to write a new journal or series of commentaries on some of the digital artefacts you have created. One appraoch to the digital portfolio could be to write a series of reflective journals that documents the work you have completed.

Although the suggested word count for this assignment is 1,500 words, this may not apply directly to your project. In particular, you may create a digital artefact that has a primary visual or aural  component, and the number of words involved doesn’t reflect the amount of work you have put into it. Remember, your digital portfolio needs to demonstrate evidence of your learning. Focus on the learning outcomes of the course and provide evidence that matches those outcomes: you will be assessed on how well you have achieved those outcomes.

NB: this assignment must be submitted using the 'Blogs' function of MyUni: go to the Assignments folder and you will see it there. Also, part of this assignment is to comment on other students' blogs: by one week after the due date you are expected to have commented on at least two other student blogs. Give them whatever feedback you think might help them: notes on where they have improved since their proposal, positive responses, areas for improvement. In this way everyone gets some summative feedback on their final project as well.

All assignments will be electronically submitted via MyUni, except for in-class assessments. MyUni will have “Blog” for you to submit your Project Proposal and Final Project; wathever format you choose for your project it must be posted via the blog. (For example, you can provide a link to the YouTube file or website you develop.)

Students may be granted extensions to assignments on medical or compassionate grounds; documentation to support these ground will be required. Requests for extension must be made before the due date; requests for extension submitted after the due date will not be considered. All extension requests must be submitted to the Course Coordinator (Chad Habel: chad.habel@adelaide.edu.au);
any extensions granted by the lecturer or tutor will not be considered valid.

All extension requests will be administered according to the Modified Arrangements for Coursework Assessment Policy:

For a concise information sheet on this policy, please visit
 
Penalties for Late Submission

Unless the Course Profile states otherwise when an assessment is submitted after the due date, and without an extension, 5% of the total mark possible will be deducted for every 24 hours or part thereof that it is late, including each day on a weekend. For example, an essay that is submitted after the due date and time but within the first 24 hour period, and that has been graded at 63%, will have 5% deducted, for a final grade of 58%. An essay that is more than 24 hours late will lose 10%, etc. Hard copy submissions made after 5.00pm on a Friday will be assumed to have been submitted on the next business day and will be penalised 5% per day for every day including weekend days and public holidays.  This penalty may be increased where the assignment is to be completed in a period of less than a week.

This course aims to return assessed work within 2 weeks of its submission, although this cannot be guaranteed. The resubmission of assignments is not possible for this course, except in exceptional circumstances as approved by the Course Coordinator.