Somerville Media Center offers a set of free Digital Literacy Workshops for anyone wanting to improve their ability to navigate and participate in the digital media sphere. These sessions aim to expand digital inclusion with expert guidance on savvy smartphone use, better internet research, media production skills, graphic design, building a user friendly website, becoming a community journalist, deepening media literacy and critical consumption. These workshops will run from January – June and you can view the full list of workshops online here.

Our 2020 Digital Literacy program in partnership with Somerville Public Library and other special educators will address a wide spectrum of digital inclusion factors like:

• taking full advantage of utilizing smartphones
• creating professional emails using MailChimp
• learning media production
• graphic design using Canva
• building user friendly websites on Wix
• social media marketing
• deepening media literacy knowledge
• creating media savvy consumers

As mentioned some of these digital literacy workshops are in partnership with Somerville Public Library as part of our collaborative “Lunch & Learn Series” on the third Tuesdays of each month from 12-2pm.

Workshop Series Benefits: This workshop series is a grant funded project of “Skill Up Somerville.” All students will be eligible to receive digital badging credentials through the Skill Up Somerville program. SMC will also offer 10% off annual membership for attending 3 SMC “Skill Up Badge” classes and if students take all of the classes, they are eligible for a one year free SMC membership.

About Skill Up Somerville: Skill Up Somerville is a digital badging platform – a free online platform – administered by the City of Somerville Economic Development office with the goal of credentialing skills gained in non-traditional educational settings.

Visit: https://skillupsomerville.credly.com/enterprise for more information on Skill up Somerville.