Digitally Literate

🌟 Welcome! I'm Ian O’Byrne – an educator, researcher, and lifelong learner focused on digital literacy, creativity, and education. While my main blog lives here, this site (digitallyliterate.net) is my digital garden.

This space evolved from my newsletter into a public notebook where I share and connect ideas in progress. It's less about polished articles and more about cultivating thoughts on topics I care about.

If you're interested, you can see what I'm up to Now.

🧭 Exploring the Garden

Think of this as a network of interconnected notes rather than a linear publication. Here's how you can navigate:

• Start Here: Check out these key areas:
  • 📰 Newsletter Index – Past thoughts and curated resources.
  • 📝 Blog Post Index – Longer reflections within the garden.
  • 🤖 AI and Machine Learning Index - A simple AI/ML Glossary
  • 📚 Book Index Public – Highlights from my reading.
  • 🎓 Digitally Literate Educator – Course resources.

✨ How This Garden Works

Understand the Growth: Notes mature over time:

• 🌱 Seeds: Raw ideas. initial thoughts and inspirations.
• 🌿 Plants: Developing concepts. Developed ideas with context and connections.
• 🌲 Evergreens: More refined insights. Polished insights that are fully developed and refined thoughts.

Discover: Use search or the graph view (if available) to find your own path.

Follow Connections: Click on [[wikilinks]] within notes to jump between related ideas.

💡 Start exploring and see where the paths lead you.

🛠️ About This Site

This garden is tended using Obsidian for personal knowledge management and published via the Digital Garden plugin, GitHub, and Netlify. Curious about the setup? See the Guide.

Feel free to wander and explore! You can learn more About Me as well.