A Full-ride, Digital Scholarship to the Invisible College: A Final Project to Improve Literacy

As members of this digital civilizations course we have been given a new lens with which to see the past, present, and future. We've learned and shared our knowledge. We've failed and we've grown.

One requirement for this class was to perform digital literacy labs. I have learned valuable skills from the labs that I have done and I've learned from the sharing that takes place after class on Thursdays. It would be a horrible waste if we didn't bring all these labs together so that future immigrants to the digital world could acclimate to the digital society more quickly.

I propose that we have everyone from the class donate their expertise from their labs and then a team of students could check the labs for understandability and post them all on a central site.

This project would include several different sub-projects so we can divide the labor and perhaps divide groups if there's enough interest:

• We need to compile all the digital literacy labs that have all ready been performed. This will take plenty of time to contact all our fellow students and make cooperation for busy individuals as easy as possible.
• We need an appropriate place to keep all this information and accessibility. We need a well-designed site with the ability to be added to in the future and cataloging so that everyone can find the stuff they want. (I was thinking that we could follow the consume, create, connect idea from the class)
• We need to improve the user-friendliness of the labs so that someone that happens on to the site by chance will be able to understand what it is and be able to begin use right away.
• We need more labs always. There is so much out there to learn about. We could make some really high quality tutorials and invite anyone and everyone to contribute their knowledge.

This is all coming from a guy who stayed up way too late last night, so I realize there's probably a lot more to it. I'd love to hear ideas of how to make it better or if someone has found something like it already.