#webliteracy
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Writing
2025
- Nov 30, 2025 What Educators Should Teach Now: Digital Literacy for the Sovereign Web
What digital literacy should become in a platform-dominated web, and why educators need to teach for sovereignty, not just participation.
- Nov 5, 2025 From CV to Living Web: Rewilding My Digital Identity
Why a living web presence should be more than a static CV.
- Oct 18, 2025 Building a Newsletter That Grows: From Linear Issues to a Living Knowledge Garden
How Obsidian can turn a newsletter into a connected knowledge garden.
- Oct 9, 2025 Why I Built a Homelab (and Why You Might Want To)
Why building a homelab helps me understand the systems I rely on.
- Apr 25, 2025 Why Now Is the Moment to Back Up the Web
Why backing up the web matters for memory, research, and history.
- Mar 28, 2025 Exploring the Integration of AI in Education: Skills, Knowledge, and Practices
How AI literacies fit into education and classroom practice.
- Jan 23, 2025 Behind the Scenes of My Obsidian Vault: A Knowledge Management Tour
A tour of an Obsidian vault and the knowledge practices behind it.
2023
- Aug 18, 2023 Education’s Essential Role in the AI Revolution
Why education has a central role in the AI revolution.
- Aug 9, 2023 Navigating the Future of Media and Information Literacy: A Transdisciplinary Approach
How media and information literacy can keep pace with a changing web.
2021
- Dec 5, 2021 Ctrl-Alt-Del: Games, Society, Intersectionality, & Toxic Technocultures
A course centered on identity, race, equity, and inclusion in gaming culture.
- Jul 20, 2021 Create a Personal Webpage Using GitHub Pages & Jekyll
A beginner-friendly guide to building a personal webpage with GitHub Pages.
- Mar 29, 2021 Tidying Up My Digital Practices
A reflection on cleaning up scattered digital habits, clarifying where different kinds of work belong, and building a more coherent publishing practice.
- Mar 16, 2021 Toward an Internet Bill of Rights
Why the internet needs a shared bill of rights.
- Jan 25, 2021 Ten Rules for Innovative Dissemination of Research
How to share research more creatively and reach wider audiences.
2020
- Oct 15, 2020 Be the Documentarian of Your Life
Why documenting your life can help you think more clearly and learn from mistakes.
- Oct 7, 2020 Come Badge With Me
Why digital badges can recognize learning across formal and informal contexts.
- Oct 5, 2020 Exposure Builds Credibility
Why sharing your work builds credibility over time.
- Sep 18, 2020 Joy, Love, & Aesthetic Fulfillment
How joy, love, and aesthetic fulfillment fit into literacy.
2019
- Nov 1, 2019 Three steps needed to empower students (& educators) as critical digital readers & writers
How readers and writers need new skills for the web.
- Oct 9, 2019 Balancing Open Scholarship & Self-Plagiarism
How to balance open scholarship with the demands of tenure and promotion.
- Sep 25, 2019 Blogging as an Open Scholarship Practice
Why blogging is a practical open scholarship habit for researchers and educators.
- Sep 17, 2019 Where I’m From
How poetry can help people tell where they come from.
- Aug 24, 2019 Talking to Children about Technology, Social Media, & Algorithms
How to talk with children about tech, social media, and algorithms.
- Aug 22, 2019 Revolutionary Poets Society
How a slam poetry course helps students respond to the moment.
- Apr 10, 2019 Digital Storytelling
How digital storytelling can transform classroom learning.
- Feb 6, 2019 Help define digital literacy
A call to define what it means to be digitally literate.
- Jan 30, 2019 What is digital literacy?
What digital literacy means and why the web is now a core text.
2018
- Apr 3, 2018 Meaning making while reading online
How online algorithms shape meaning-making and reading.
- Mar 9, 2018 What is creativity?
What creativity means and how useful ideas get made.
2017
- Nov 2, 2017 The First Principles of Being Digitally Literate
How first-principles thinking can strengthen digital literacy.
- Oct 27, 2017 The three types of web pages you’ll find online
A simple guide to three types of web pages.
- Oct 12, 2017 Using Constraints to Build Creative Confidence & Divergent Thinking
How constraints can build creative confidence and divergent thinking.
- Jun 8, 2017 What is Missing from the Mozilla Web Literacy Standards?
What web literacy standards still leave out.
- Jun 6, 2017 Three things I’ve learned by writing a newsletter
How I write and send my weekly newsletter.
- May 24, 2017 Stop Motion Movie Creation in Early Childhood Education
How stop-motion projects can support early childhood learning.
- Mar 16, 2017 Three questions to consider as you develop an awesome newsletter
How I build and send my weekly Digitally Literate newsletter.
2016
- Mar 17, 2016 Engineering education, design, STEM, & literacy
What an engineering education interview says about STEM, design, and literacy.
- Feb 14, 2016 How to Find Creative Commons Licensed Images and Cite Them Correctly
How to find CC-licensed images and cite them correctly.
2015
- Nov 19, 2015 Building Critical Media Literacy in the Deictic/Ambiguous Nature of Online Text
How critical media and web literacy reshape what we mean by text.
- Nov 10, 2015 Publishing Your Content Online and Syndicating it Elsewhere
How to publish content online and syndicate it across platforms.
- Nov 10, 2015 Request for Comments & Feedback on Web Literacy Version 2.0
A request for comments on Web Literacy version 2.0.
- Oct 20, 2015 Web Literacy Map: Read, write, & participate for a better web
A video overview of the web literacy map up to version 1.5.
- Sep 18, 2015 Introducing Web Literacy – Reading, Writing, & Participating
How web literacy supports reading, writing, and participation.
- Aug 21, 2015 Computational Participation: Coding and Programming as Literacy Activities
How coding and programming can function as literacy practices in classrooms.
- Jul 23, 2015 Scaffolding students (and educators) as they consume, curate, & create online
How to move students and educators from consuming to creating online.
- Jul 8, 2015 Understanding the Next Steps With the Web Literacy Map
What comes next for the Web Literacy Map.
- Apr 25, 2015 Guiding Students as They Explore, Build, & Connect Online
How students can explore, build, and connect more skillfully online.
- Apr 16, 2015 Developing & maintaining learning connections online in a networked learning project
How to use the internet as a site for self-directed learning.
- Mar 30, 2015 Zainab Oni
An overview of digital badges and their uses in teaching and learning.
- Mar 14, 2015 The Voyage of the Anti-Hero, Barton Miki
A reflective piece on digital identity, unfinished work, and the fear of leaving imperfect traces of yourself online.
- Mar 10, 2015 Digital Badges Overview
An overview of digital badges in teaching and learning.
- Feb 13, 2015 Request for Comments on the Web Literacy Map (Version 1.5) Skills
A request for comment on web literacy map skills version 1.5.
- Feb 7, 2015 I’m a Webmaker: I build and break things online
A short argument for humility, experimentation, and learning in public from someone who builds, breaks, and figures things out on the open web.
- Feb 3, 2015 Learning Pathways, Badges, and Models in the Web Literacy Map Development
An overview of web literacy map pathways, badges, and privacy work.
- Jan 28, 2015 Grokkability, Ontology, and the Nomological Network
Why the real value of web literacy work comes from digging into one competency at a time.
- Jan 19, 2015 Toward the Development of a Web Literacy Map: Exploring, Building, and Connecting Online
Responses to Mozilla's Web Literacy Map from a Literacy Research Association session.
2014
- Nov 14, 2014 Teaching, Learning, and Sharing Openly Online
What open teaching and learning ask of teachers and students.
- Oct 10, 2014 Community Survey – Help Develop the Web Literacy Map 2.0
A community survey to help revise the web literacy map.
- Oct 2, 2014 Where Do We Stand With the Mozilla Web Literacy Map?
Where the Mozilla Web Literacy Map stood at a key transition point.
- Sep 12, 2014 Come join us for the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) MOOC
An invitation to join the Online Research and Media Skills MOOC.
- Sep 4, 2014 Apply a Creative Commons License to your Digital Learning Hub
How to add a Creative Commons license to your digital learning hub.
- Sep 4, 2014 My (Current) Thoughts on the Mozilla Web Literacy Initiative
My current thoughts on where the Mozilla Web Literacy initiative is headed.
- Aug 29, 2014 Google Groups as a Private, Personal Learning Network
How Google Groups can support a private learning network.
- Aug 9, 2014 Collaborative Summer Read – The Information: A history, a theory, a flood
How a collaborative summer read can support shared learning.
- Jul 19, 2014 Maker Space Activities Using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
How LED maker activities can be used to tell stories with light.
- Jul 11, 2014 Creating and Sharing Your “One Page” on the Internet
How to create a one-page hub for your online identity.
- Jul 3, 2014 Create a Game or “Choose Your Own Adventure” Using Google Forms
How Google Forms can be used to create a simple choose-your-own-adventure game.
- Jun 16, 2014 Safety, Identity, and Literacy in Online Spaces
Why safety, identity, and literacy are inseparable in online spaces.
- Apr 22, 2014 Open is Serendipity
How open learning creates serendipity in online spaces.
- Mar 18, 2014 The Digital Texts and Tools Online Repository
How an open repository can help archive teaching and learning materials.
- Feb 26, 2014 Teachers May Hold the Key to the Past, Present, and Future of Web Literacy
Why teachers are central to the past, present, and future of web literacy.
- Jan 22, 2014 TechTalk 003 – Twitter, Vine, Instagram, & the #WALKMYWORLD Project
A practical overview of Twitter, Vine, and Instagram as creative and participatory tools for educators working in open online spaces.
2013
- Dec 19, 2013 Responsibilities of Academics and Scholars in Writing and Publishing Online
What academics owe readers when they publish their work online.
- Dec 17, 2013 Open Access Writing, Publishing, and Sharing
How open access shapes writing, publishing, and sharing.
- Nov 24, 2013 Social Networking and Writing Documentary Poetry
How social networking and poetry can come together in classrooms.
- Nov 4, 2013 LRA: Research to Practice online video initiative
Launching an LRA research-to-practice online video initiative.
- Oct 31, 2013 Post, Promote, and Protect Your Content Online Using Creative Commons Licensing
How Creative Commons helps you share and protect your content.
- Oct 23, 2013 Launching the Networked Learning Collaborative
Why the Networked Learning Collaborative was created.
- Oct 17, 2013 Beta Testing of the Online Research and Media Skills MOOC
What to expect as we beta test the ORMS MOOC.
- Aug 30, 2013 Why in the World Would You Build an Open Educational MOOC?
Why build an open educational MOOC in the first place?
- Aug 29, 2013 Value, Cognitive Authority, and Digital Badges
How cognitive authority shapes decisions about digital badges.
- Aug 1, 2013 Mozilla Web Literacy Formal Request for Comments (RFC)
A look at Mozilla's web literacy RFC and what it means for shared standards.
- Jul 20, 2013 Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Content
A quick guide to Creative Commons licensing for open educational content.
- Jul 8, 2013 Make With Me – Digital Badges
What digital badges can offer learners in a connected learning context.
- Jul 3, 2013 Experimenting With Stop Motion Animation in the Connected Learning MOOC
Why stop motion animation is a useful connected learning activity.
- Jul 2, 2013 Design Evolution of the Graphics in an Open Badge Initiative
How the graphics for our open badge initiative evolved over time.
- Jun 24, 2013 Help Create a Web Literate Planet With The Mozilla Web Literacies
How the Mozilla Web Literacies project helps build a web-literate future.
- Jun 11, 2013 Privacy, Identity, & Protecting Yourself (and Your Students) Online
How privacy and identity shape safety for you and your students online.
- May 24, 2013 Embedding New Literacies in the Common Core State Standards
How new literacies fit into the Common Core State Standards.
- May 19, 2013 Working Individually & Collaboratively While Constructing Online Content #teachtheweb
How to balance solo and collaborative work while making online content.
- May 16, 2013 Towards a System of Open Badges for Teachers & Technology Use
How open badges can support teachers trying to use technology.
- May 10, 2013 Empowering Students in the Reader/Writer Nature of the Web #teachtheweb
How making, connected learning, and critical literacy support student agency.
- May 1, 2013 What kind of thinking is involved when you Make? #teachtheweb
What kinds of thinking happen when you make content online.
- Apr 22, 2013 Spending a Little Time “Making” the Web
Why participating in Mozilla's Teach the Web work matters for digital literacy.
- Apr 15, 2013 Preparing Teachers & Students for Web Literacies
How Mozilla's web literacies work can help teachers and students learn the web.
- Mar 14, 2013 Towards a Framing of Web Literacies
How web literacies can be framed as explore, create, connect, protect.
2012
- May 8, 2012 Noticing, Naming, and Navigating
How students can notice, name, and navigate online texts.
- Mar 15, 2012 Time and Distractions While Reading Online
How time and distraction shape reading online.
Publications
2016
- 2016 The role of K-12 education in creating critical digital experts in the era of Web 2.0
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.
2015
- 2015 Students as webmakers: Exploring, building, and connecting online
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Belshaw, Doug. (2015). Students as webmakers: Exploring, building, and connecting online. Reading Today.
- 2015 Guiding students as they explore, build, and connect online
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.