Designing Digital Literacy Programming for Transformative Social Engagement
- Conference Year
- Online Northwest 2017
- Session
- 5
- Type
- Lightning Talk
- Presenters
- Tim Miller, Humboldt State University
- Abstract
Developing library programming that meets the needs of the organization and community but is also interesting and accessible to your audience often feels impossible. However, engaging with the community is not a sisyphean task. Spending time on social engagement and activism will allow you to understand what the community’s needs and interests are so that you can design digital literacy programming that has an audience. Learn how the Humboldt State Library has used the Salzburg Curriculum (http://salzburg.hyperlib.sjsu.edu/) to guide the role of the Digital Media Lab and how you can strategize to improve your programming.
- Learning Outcomes
- Identify components of Transformative Social Engagement that can be used to better understand the community.
- Apply principles of digital literacy to programming that engages the campus community in social activism and advocacy.
- Design programming to fit with the social needs of the community as well as the library/campus mission.
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