Creating Digital Media

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This guide is packed full of tips and best practices for creating digital media. From documents and images, to videos and webpages, we hope to cover all the steps in planning, creating, and hosting your content.

Digital media is communication that can be created, viewed, distributed, modified and preserved on computers. These include: 

• Computer programs and software
• Digital imagery
• Digital video
• Video games
• Web pages and websites, including social media
• Digital audio

In the classroom, the use of media and technology can help bridge the distance between instructor and students, between students and texts, and between students of various skill levels in effective and innovative ways.

Using digital media in the classroom can:

• Provide access to information where access was once limited or non-existent (e.g. Digital Library Collections and Library Course Reserves)
• Help convey information, concepts and process more effectively (e.g. Data Mining and Data Visualization)
• Enable self-paced learning and sensitivity to different learning styles (e.g. Flipped Classrooms and Blended Learning)
• Permit instructors and students to interact and collaborate with one another beyond class time and extend learning beyond the classroom (e.g. Chalk, blogs, and wikis)
• Improve engagement and incorporate real world relevance into classroom activities.
• Provide the opportunity for students to learn digital citizenship: how to evaluate online sources and how to interact online.

Sharing information is easier than ever when you are using blogs, wikis, and social media. However, even though the information is online doesn't mean that it isn't copyright protected. Understand your rights and the rights of others through the Library's Copyright Information Center, developed in collaboration with ITServices.