#webliteracy

What digital literacy should become in a platform-dominated web, and why educators need to teach for sovereignty, not just participation.

Why a living web presence should be more than a static CV.

How Obsidian can turn a newsletter into a connected knowledge garden.

Why building a homelab helps me understand the systems I rely on.

Why backing up the web matters for memory, research, and history.

How AI literacies fit into education and classroom practice.

A tour of an Obsidian vault and the knowledge practices behind it.

Why education has a central role in the AI revolution.

How media and information literacy can keep pace with a changing web.

A course centered on identity, race, equity, and inclusion in gaming culture.

A beginner-friendly guide to building a personal webpage with GitHub Pages.

A reflection on cleaning up scattered digital habits, clarifying where different kinds of work belong, and building a more coherent publishing practice.

Why the internet needs a shared bill of rights.

How to share research more creatively and reach wider audiences.

Why documenting your life can help you think more clearly and learn from mistakes.

Why digital badges can recognize learning across formal and informal contexts.

Why sharing your work builds credibility over time.

How joy, love, and aesthetic fulfillment fit into literacy.

How readers and writers need new skills for the web.

How to balance open scholarship with the demands of tenure and promotion.

Why blogging is a practical open scholarship habit for researchers and educators.

How poetry can help people tell where they come from.

How to talk with children about tech, social media, and algorithms.

How a slam poetry course helps students respond to the moment.

How digital storytelling can transform classroom learning.

A call to define what it means to be digitally literate.

What digital literacy means and why the web is now a core text.

How online algorithms shape meaning-making and reading.

What creativity means and how useful ideas get made.

How first-principles thinking can strengthen digital literacy.

A simple guide to three types of web pages.

How constraints can build creative confidence and divergent thinking.

What web literacy standards still leave out.

How I write and send my weekly newsletter.

How stop-motion projects can support early childhood learning.

How I build and send my weekly Digitally Literate newsletter.

What an engineering education interview says about STEM, design, and literacy.

How to find CC-licensed images and cite them correctly.

How critical media and web literacy reshape what we mean by text.

How to publish content online and syndicate it across platforms.

A request for comments on Web Literacy version 2.0.

A video overview of the web literacy map up to version 1.5.

How web literacy supports reading, writing, and participation.

How coding and programming can function as literacy practices in classrooms.

How to move students and educators from consuming to creating online.

What comes next for the Web Literacy Map.

How students can explore, build, and connect more skillfully online.

How to use the internet as a site for self-directed learning.

An overview of digital badges and their uses in teaching and learning.

A reflective piece on digital identity, unfinished work, and the fear of leaving imperfect traces of yourself online.

An overview of digital badges in teaching and learning.

A request for comment on web literacy map skills version 1.5.

A short argument for humility, experimentation, and learning in public from someone who builds, breaks, and figures things out on the open web.

An overview of web literacy map pathways, badges, and privacy work.

Why the real value of web literacy work comes from digging into one competency at a time.

Responses to Mozilla's Web Literacy Map from a Literacy Research Association session.

What open teaching and learning ask of teachers and students.

A community survey to help revise the web literacy map.

Where the Mozilla Web Literacy Map stood at a key transition point.

An invitation to join the Online Research and Media Skills MOOC.

How to add a Creative Commons license to your digital learning hub.

My current thoughts on where the Mozilla Web Literacy initiative is headed.

How Google Groups can support a private learning network.

How a collaborative summer read can support shared learning.

How LED maker activities can be used to tell stories with light.

How to create a one-page hub for your online identity.

How Google Forms can be used to create a simple choose-your-own-adventure game.

Why safety, identity, and literacy are inseparable in online spaces.

How open learning creates serendipity in online spaces.

How an open repository can help archive teaching and learning materials.

Why teachers are central to the past, present, and future of web literacy.

A practical overview of Twitter, Vine, and Instagram as creative and participatory tools for educators working in open online spaces.

What academics owe readers when they publish their work online.

How open access shapes writing, publishing, and sharing.

How social networking and poetry can come together in classrooms.

Launching an LRA research-to-practice online video initiative.

How Creative Commons helps you share and protect your content.

Why the Networked Learning Collaborative was created.

What to expect as we beta test the ORMS MOOC.

Why build an open educational MOOC in the first place?

How cognitive authority shapes decisions about digital badges.

A look at Mozilla's web literacy RFC and what it means for shared standards.

A quick guide to Creative Commons licensing for open educational content.

What digital badges can offer learners in a connected learning context.

Why stop motion animation is a useful connected learning activity.

How the graphics for our open badge initiative evolved over time.

How the Mozilla Web Literacies project helps build a web-literate future.

How privacy and identity shape safety for you and your students online.

How new literacies fit into the Common Core State Standards.

How to balance solo and collaborative work while making online content.

How open badges can support teachers trying to use technology.

How making, connected learning, and critical literacy support student agency.

What kinds of thinking happen when you make content online.

Why participating in Mozilla's Teach the Web work matters for digital literacy.

How Mozilla's web literacies work can help teachers and students learn the web.

How web literacies can be framed as explore, create, connect, protect.

How students can notice, name, and navigate online texts.

How time and distraction shape reading online.

Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian. (2016). The role of K-12 education in creating critical digital experts in the era of Web 2.0. First Monday.

Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Belshaw, Doug. (2015). Students as webmakers: Exploring, building, and connecting online. Reading Today.

Journal article · McVerry, J Gregory; Belshaw, Doug; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2015). Guiding students as they explore, build, and connect online. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.