Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to achieve business benefit. Key features of collaboration tools are:

 
 
• Synchronous collaboration such as online meetings and instant messaging
 
• Asynchronous collaboration such as shared workspaces and annotations
 
 

Many organizations are also looking at Free-form Collaboration tools to improve collaboration and reduce the number of emails used for collaboration.

Benefits of Online Collaboration

In many ways, online collaboration hearkens back to the original purpose of the Internet. When the Internet's predecessor, ARPANET, came online, it allowed researchers from one facility to access data stored in another facility's computer system. People working on different systems could collaborate on projects without leaving their computer labs.

Media literacy is thus the ability to:
 
- Access the media
- Understand the media and have a critical approach towards media content
- Create communication in a variety of contexts.

In particular, projects have received European financial support with the objective of :
 
- analysing media representations and media values in a multimedia perspective;
- encouraging the production and distribution of Media Literacy related content;
- stimulating the use of media in order to improve participation in social and community life;
- intensifying networking around media education related issues;
- concentrating on the implementation of media literacy initiatives bridging the media industry and the education world, in a “hands-on” approach.

Media literacy is a movement   that helps children and adults cope with today's inescapable and often   overwhelming media environment. Developed during the 1980s and 1990s in   response to public concern about media violence and commercialism, the   movement is centered in schools but also encompasses homes, religious   and civic organizations and other institutions. Three goals of media literacy,   as identified by the Center for Media Literacy in Los Angeles, are:

 
 
• Managing television and   the choices involved;
 
• Developing critical viewing   skills, or understanding media depictions; and
 
• Looking behind media depictions   at political, economic and social motivations.

Netiquette – Etiquette on the Net

What is Information Literacy?

"The beginning of the 21st century has been called the Information Age  because of the explosion of information output and information sources. It has  become increasingly clear that students cannot learn everything they need to  know in their field of study in a few years of college. Information literacy  equips them with the critical skills necessary to become independent lifelong  learners" (Introduction  to Information Literacy).  Information literacy implies becoming "critical consumers of information to avoid overload and to develop new intellectual skills in order to manage information effectively and transform it into usable knowledge" (Martin & Williamson, 2003).

What is information and critical literacy?

Most people are reasonably familiar with what is meant by study skills. By contrast, the concept of information and critical literacy is relatively new to many. 

In simple terms, people are information literate if they know when they need information, and are then able to identify, locate, evaluate, organise and effectively use the information to address and resolve personal, job-related or broad social issues and problems.