Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She is the author of our next reading, Knowing the Difference Between Digital Skills and Digital Literacies, and Teaching Both and we invited her to introduce the reading for our learners.

Share your thoughts on Maha Bali’s reflection on digital skills and digital literacies by posting a WEnote comment. For example:

• Thanks Maha, I didn’t realise that …..
• My take home message from Maha’s video is …

Note: Your comment will be displayed in the course feed.

Purpose
Read an online article and annotate it using Hypothes.is.

Tasks

1. Read the Hypothes.is “Quick start guide for students”
2. Create an account on Hypothes.is. Here is the registration link
   • We recommend that you use the Chrome browser (download here) and install the Hypothes.is extension. Alternatively, you can annotate web pages directly from the Hypothes.is website by pasting the link into the text area after you have logged into the site. If you are working on a mobile device, please follow these instructions: How to use Hypothes.is on mobile devices.
3. Read the following article: Knowing the Difference Between Digital Skills and Digital Literacies, and Teaching Both
4. Activate the annotations after logging in to Hypothes.is and click on the search icon () and enter the course code (LiDA101) to filter posts for this course from the public feed.
5. Annotate or reply to posts by visiting the annotation page (You will need to be logged into the Hypothes.is site to post.)
6. Remember to tag your posts using the course code: LiDA101 (The course tag is required to harvest posts for the course feed.)