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Skills finder
About Being digital
Being digital is a collection of short, easy-to-follow activities on finding, using and creating information online, brought to you by Library Services. Working through these interactive learning materials should enable you to become a confident and critical user of digital tools and resources for study, work and everyday life.
This set of skills is known as digital literacy. Developing these skills will give you the confidence to work successfully and safely online. Digital literacy is also an essential part of employability.
Activities cover areas such as:
- Presenting yourself to best advantage online and managing your digital identity
- Making the most of online networks
- Knowing who and what to trust online
- Using Wikipedia
- Evaluating and using online tools
- Searching effectively
Each chunk of learning should take no more than 10 minutes to complete, making it easy to fit Being digital activities into your schedule.
New activities are being added regularly. We also welcome your suggestions for what else we should include via the Feedback form.
If you wish to link to any material on the site, you can do so by copying and pasting the URL of the activity. Please let us know, so we can keep you informed of any changes.
Things you need to know about the site
Mobile access
At present the activities cannot be used on an ipad or ipod. This is because they are written in a programme called Flash, which is not compatible with Apple mobile devices. Updated versions of the activities should be available within the next 6-9 months and it will be possible to use these on any mobile device or desktop computer.
Accessibility
- Activities can be accessed using keystrokes.
- Accessible pdfs are available for all activities.
- Text can be read using a screen reader such as JAWS. Some interactive elements such as drag and drop cannot be read with JAWS. You are advised to use the accessible pdf in these cases.
- Activities offer the option to customise the appearance, for example, text size and colour.
- Some activities on the site feature third party material and where this is not fully accessible a transcript or alternative version has been provided.