- It’s about skill sharing.
- It’s about upskilling the team and our collective personal digital capabilities.
- It’s about committing to 15-30 minutes a week to personal development and learning or refreshing a digital skill.
- It’s about learning how to use the tools at our fingertips more efficiently, to help us do our jobs better.
- And it’s about getting a bit more practical knowledge about some of the services we support on a day to day basis.
Welcome to the LTDS Digiskills blog, which has been set up to allow us to learn together, at a time convenient to you, by learning 23 things to increase our digital capability.
- One ‘thing’ a week will appear on this blog.
- Each ‘thing’ should take between 15-30 minutes to complete.
- The ‘things’ that have been chosen are based on skills which will benefit everyone in the team, help us all do our jobs better and use the technology at our fingertips more effectively.
- You may already know how to do many of the things that come up. That’s OK. we don’t think that anyone will know how to do all of the 23 Things.
It is designed to contribute to and support everyone’s personal development, aligning with the Registrar’s wish to have everyone put an objective into their PDR related to increasing their digital literacy/capabilities.
Our 23 LTDS Digiskills things will appear on this blog. Contributing is restricted only to our team. The blog is not indexed by search engines (like Google) so no one is likely to find it unless they have the link. We will be seeking feedback on how it all went at the end of the course and discussing it at a future team awayday.
What is 23 things?
See http://23teaching.com/ and https://tda23things.wordpress.com/course-schedule/ as examples.
This is an approach first used in libraries to share skills and build capability across a team. It is blog based, so everyone will learn how to blog, with one blog post appearing a week based on one topic from a central team 23things blog.
The idea is that each topic/week should be easily manageable in about 15-30 minutes, and that each topic is very practically focussed. Having 23 things on a blog means that should anyone want to revisit/refresh a skill, it is all there, and if staff change, new staff can work through developing their skills in agreement with line managers.
We will augment this online approach with 3 whole team meeting/workshops and look at how it has worked at the next staff awayday.
Jisc Digital Capability Framework
See https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/building-digital-capability and http://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ )
The areas have been mapped:
The Jisc Digital Capabilities Framework
Now it’s time to move on to the first ‘thing’……