Comments on: What do the Student Digital Champions do?

By: Merel van Dijke

Merel van Dijke — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:53:13 +0000

We are always trying to do that Katie, but I’ll mention it again explicitly in our next meeting to bring attention to it once again :)

By: kathy

kathy — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:56:21 +0000

Dear Digichamps,

I’m a teacher of the visually impaired and for many of my students, the web and devices like the IPad have been a game changer, so to speak: access to instantly downloadable books (vs waiting weeks for expensive braille editions) shopping (vs waiting for a sighted friend to take them to the store) etc etc etc – but web sites and apps are useful only when their authors make it a point to make their products accessible.

May I ask you to keep accessibility in mind wham you discuss or evaluate web tools?

By: Merel van Dijke

Merel van Dijke — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:35:43 +0000

Hey Tom, Good point! We do our best to always stay critical when we are doing a job. In the Twitter workshop we are doing in a few weeks for example, we don’t only talk about the benefits of Twitter, but also about the dangers and that you should always use your social media account responsibly. It’s important for us to educate this to the people that don’t use social media as much as we do (yet), so that they get an adequate view of the pros and cons. Next to that we always look critically during events what the best tools are to enhance engagement and content. So if this means interviewing or filming next to tweeting, we also do that. It is the reality now, however, that a big group of the people coming to events are using social media and it is therefore important that we are at those media too :) I hope this answers your question! See you around!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:43:35 +0000

You don’t talk much about any critical angle to your work. Is there anyone in the group that is critical of all things digital or is it pretty much a group that accepts all aspects and digital life and helps people do them better?