What is Digital Immersion?

By:JessicaDanny

And Tyler

Digital Immersion is a program at Riverside that allows students to immerse computers in to their learning similar to how French Immersion immerses French into students learning

Digital Immersion teaches us how to use web applications and websites on the internet that can help us not only at school but in our everyday lives.

Digital Immersion also lets us immerse technology not only in our info tech course but in Science, English and Social Studies.

The Basics

Digital Immersion frequently uses apps that are associated with Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is a term used to describe web apps that do activities like information sharing and user centered design. Examples include social networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis and blogs.

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Digital Immersion also lets us take home a digital backpack. This digital backpack allows us to use all the web apps and websites we’ve learned about and bring them home with us.

The Digital Backpack

We have learned how to bookmark. Bookmarking allows us to quickly get to our favorite web pages without having to type it in.

We have also learned how to socially bookmark. This lets us send our friends our bookmarks. For social bookmarking we use websites like Delicious.

Recently we have just learned how to use other presentation tools like Google Docs and Prezi. The most useful of these is Prezi which lets us zoom in to our slides when we do our presentation.

What we Have Learned

We also use a multitude of apps like Tiny URL which lets us make our long URL’s smaller. Other apps we use include the IE tab which lets us use the internet’s functions while using a program like Firefox and My Stickies which lets us sticky note web pages.

This course as I’ve already said lets us take home a digital backpack so just think of all the uses of technology we have at our disposal

How does it benefit us?