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Thanks to Pascaline for putting everything in one list - saved me some time and I copied the concept of highlighting what I could do, next time I'll highlight what I can't do as all that green highlighting is making the text slightly inaccessible - apologies to anyone who finds this but I am assuming the audience doesn't have to read the list.

I'm not surprised I'm such an "expert"  I really am a Web person who does pretty much everything online.  Whilst writing this post I'm promoting my bouncy castle business on Facebook, updating the website and adding some things to my teaching wiki.  

Was this useful?  Probably not - it just highlights that I have a LOT of skills which are not needed for my work but I try to include in my work.  I think it makes my work better but I'm still waiting for anyone to notice that. (Yes I'm still on a downer!)

Exploring - Reading the Web

Navigation

  • Accessing the web using the common features of a browser
  • Using hyperlinks to access a range of resources on the web
  • Reading, evaluating, and manipulating URLs
  • Recognizing the common visual cues in web services
  • Exploring browser add-ons and extensions to provide additional functionality

Web Mechanics

  • Using and understanding the differences between URLs, IP addresses and search terms
  • Identifying where data is in the network of devices that makes up the Internet
  • Exporting, moving, and backing up data from web services
  • Explaining the role algorithms play in creating and managing content on the web
  • Creating or modifying an algorithm to serve content from around the web

Search

  • Developing questions to aid a search
  • Using and revising keywords to make web searches more efficient
  • Evaluating search results to determine if the information is relevant
  • Finding real-time or time-sensitive information using a range of search techniques
  • Discovering information and resources by asking people within social networks

Credibility

  • Comparing and contrasting information from a number of sources
  • Making judgments based on technical and design characteristics
  • Discriminating between ‘original’ and derivative web content
  • Identifying and investigating the author or publisher of web resources
  • Evaluating how purpose and perspectives shape web resources

Security

  • Recommending how to avoid online scams and 'phishing’
  • Managing and maintaining account security
  • Encrypting data and communications using software and add-ons
  • Changing the default behavior of websites, add-ons and extensions to make web browsing more secure

 

Building Writing the web

Composing for the Web

  • Inserting hyperlinks into a web page
  • Identifying and using HTML tags
  • Embedding multimedia content into a web page
  • Creating web resources in ways appropriate to the medium/genre
  • Setting up and controlling a space to publish on the Web

Remixing

  • Identifying remixable content
  • Combining multimedia resources to create something new on the web
  • Shifting context and meaning by creating derivative content
  • Citing and referencing original content

Designing for the Web

  • Using CSS properties to change the style and layout of a Web page
  • Demonstrating the difference between inline, embedded and external CSS
  • Improving user experiences through feedback and iteration
  • Creating device-agnostic web resources

Coding/scripting

  • Reading and explaining the structure of code
  • Identifying and applying common coding patterns and concepts
  • Adding comments to code for clarification and attribution
  • Applying a script framework
  • Querying a web service using an API

Accessibility

  • Using empathy and awareness to inform the design of web content that is accessible to all users
  • Designing for different cultures which may have different interpretations of design elements
  • Comparing and exploring how different interfaces impact diverse users
  • Improving the accessibility of a web page through the design of its color scheme, structure/hierarchy and markup
  • Comparing and contrasting how different interfaces impact diverse web users

 

Connecting Participating on the web

Sharing

  • Creating and using a system to distribute web resources to others
  • Contributing and finding content for the benefit of others
  • Creating, curating, and circulating web resources to elicit peer feedback
  • Understanding the needs of audiences in order to make relevant contributions to a community
  • Identifying when it is safe to contribute content in a variety of situations on the web

Collaborating

  • Choosing a Web tool to use for a particular contribution/ collaboration
  • Co-creating Web resources
  • Configuring notifications to keep up-to-date with community spaces and interactions
  • Working towards a shared goal using synchronous and asynchronous tools
  • Developing and communicating a set of shared expectations and outcomes

Community participation

  • Engaging in web communities at varying levels of activity
  • Respecting community norms when expressing opinions in web discussions
  • Making sense of different terminology used within online communities
  • Participating in both synchronous and asynchronous discussions

Privacy

  • Debating privacy as a value and right in a networked world
  • Explaining ways in which unsolicited third parties can track users across the web
  • Controlling (meta)data shared with online services
  • Identifying rights retained and removed through user agreements
  • Managing and shaping online identities

Open practices

  • Distinguishing between open and closed licensing
  • Making web resources available under an open license
  • Contributing to an Open Source project
  • Advocating for an open web


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