We Are @VConnecting at the Winter Symposium on Digital Literacy in Higher Education #DIGIURI

We’re joining into the conversations at the Winter Symposium on Digital Literacy in Higher Education.

The Winter Syposium at the University of Rhode Island will be held on January 12-13, 2017. It brings together scholars and teachers from across a variety of higher education institutions including regional, national and international stakeholders. Through discussion and dialogue, the aim is to discover how digital literacy competencies intersect with the professional and personal needs of college and university faculty. As a result of this conference, participants will clarify a vision for the values and needs of higher education faculty to help drive the development of new professional development programs and services to meet faculty needs.

Themes being explored include 

• The Digital Literacy Competencies of Faculty, Undergraduate and Graduate Students
• Teaching and Learning With and About Digital Media
• The Digital Identity of the College Professor
• Scholarly Networking and Digital Literacy.

The Virtually Connecting community will play a key role in the exploration of these issues.  VC will be featured in the Scholarly Networking panel as well as two “Show Me” sessions.

Friday, January 13, 2017 at 10:15 a.m. (Eastern, US time)

We will kickstart with a panel presentation on Networked Scholarship. This broadcast will begin at 10:15 a.m. EST. The session will be chaired by Sandra Markus and facilitated by Mia Zamora. Virtually Connecting panelists include Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, Helen DeWaard, Rebecca J. Hogue, Nadine Aboulmagd and Apostolos Koutropoulos. Our panel starts at 10:45am and you can watch below:

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Friday, January 13, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern, US time)

This is the first of two ‘show me’ sessions (or vconnecting hallway conversations) to talk about digital literacy in higher education. Meet onsite guests Renee Hobbs, Natasha Casey and Troy Hicks. Connecting from onsite will be Mia Zamora and Sandra Markus. The virtual buddies will be Helen DeWaard and Maha Bali. You are invited to participate – add a comment to this blog or send out a tweet to @vconnecting directly, or one of the virtual buddies.

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Friday, January 13, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. (Eastern, US time)

This second ‘show me’ session is a continuation of the conversation as we talk about digital literacy in higher education. Meet onsite guests Jon Becker, Maria Ranieri and Wendy Drexler. (surpise: Alec Couros is also going to be in this session). Connecting from onsite will be Mia Zamora and Sandra Markus. The virtual buddies will be Apostolos Koutropoulos (AK) and Helen DeWaard. You are invited to participate – add a comment to this blog or send out a tweet to @vconnecting directly, or to one of the virtual buddies.

There are sometimes last minute changes and additions, so stay tuned.