Introduction

This Unit will highlight the various types of digital resources that are available online and will consider in detail how to find, manage and use these. It will also consider how you evaluate and select the most appropriate resources.

Upon completion of this unit you will be able to:

Outcomes

•  Use ICT tools to search for and find information and resources online that fulfil your needs.
• Critically evaluate found content for credibility, relevance, accuracy and currency.
• Understand how the production and ownership of resources impacts on purpose and intention.
• Manage and organise the resources you find online.
• Describe some of the issues around copyright, intellectual property, open licensing, privacy and data ownership.

Terminology

Digital resources:
Content that is available online which can include a range of formats and types of content

Intellectual property:
Creations of intellectual and artistic processes, such as literary and written works (including blog-posts and digital media), artistic works, patents and designs.

Copyright licences:
Legal statements that indicate whether and in what ways a piece of intellectual property may be used.

Aggregation:
Collation of digital content for a specific purpose, such as bringing subject related content together or collating posts using the same hashtag

Curation:
The systematic organisation, description and storage of intellectual property; including metadata, archiving and backup.

Boolean operators:
Used to connect search terms together in a way that either widens or limits a search for content on the internet – AND, OR and NOT