Develop your Information, Media and Data Digital Skills
To develop your Information, Media and Data digital skills, please take the opportunity to explore the range of resources and courses below.
Data Literacy
Here are some resources on Data Literacy
- How to Become Data Literate and Support a Data Driven Culture – don’t let the title of this article by Compact put you off from reading it – there are some useful nuggets in here.
- The Open University offers a range of courses on data analysis that you could explore when time allows:
Media Literacy
Here are some resources on Media Literacy
- The Fake News Game – This interactive resource, developed by the University of Sheffield, is a really engaging way of learning more about Media Literacy and testing/developing your ability to read media.
- Understanding and questioning images using the five step process –To be media literate, you need to understand how to read different types of media – including images. This guide will help you to do this.
- What is media literacy and why does it matter? – This article from FutureLearn looks at media literacy and what makes it so important in our current climate
Workshops at Queens’s
Workshops at Queens’s
Information literacy training is coordinated by Subject Librarians working in three faculty teams.
Each School has a designated Subject Librarian. The Library Training Guide provides more information about the training they offer and lists upcoming events.
