In this episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, Dr. Renee Jordan continues the Digital Literacies lesson series by focusing on one essential skill: Connection. Building on a live session originally shared on social media, Dr. Jordan reflects on how she connects with colleagues, scholars, and collaborators across digital platforms — and how those connections have opened real doors for research, workshops, academic collaborations, and professional growth.

Drawing from personal examples, including reaching out to colleagues on LinkedIn after conferences, strengthening relationships through digital follow-up, and navigating collaborative opportunities that emerged unexpectedly, Dr. Jordan illustrates how intentional connection functions as both a digital literacy and a long-term professional strategy.

She also discusses the challenges of networking digitally — from remembering where you met someone, to creating sustainable follow-up systems, to filtering out bots and maintaining safe boundaries. Finally, Dr. Jordan highlights examples of Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women in tech whose digital presence and community-building practices offer powerful models of how to nurture networks with impact, authenticity, and care.

Listeners are encouraged to choose a digital literacy for their own project, reflect on how they connect with others online, and consider how digital tools can support their personal, academic, and professional journeys.

Episode Highlights

• A deep dive into the digital literacy Connect and why it matters.
• Personal examples of meaningful digital networking that led to:
  • a successful workshop proposal,
  • collaboration across institutions,
  • extended partnerships and paid opportunities.
• Practical strategies for remembering where and how you met people online.
• Discussions on expanding your network through:
  • livestreaming,
  • LinkedIn,
  • conferences,
  • academic spaces,
  • and careful vetting of followers to avoid bots.
• A reminder about digital safety: Never share personal identifiable information with generative AI or strangers online.
• A guided example search featuring Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women leaders in tech whose online networks thrive because of:
  • authentic storytelling,
  • safe digital community-building,
  • targeted engagement,
  • mentorship and sponsorship,
  • platform diversity,
  • and sharing resources generously.
• An invitation for listeners to reflect and choose a digital literacy for their upcoming personal, academic, or professional project.

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. How do you currently connect with others online, whether professionally or socially? What platforms feel most natural to you — and why?
2. Think back to a time when an online connection opened a door for you. What made that connection meaningful or effective?
3. What challenges do you experience when trying to build or maintain digital connections? How can you create systems that help you follow up intentionally?
4. Which digital tools (LinkedIn, livestreaming, messaging apps, academic platforms) could help you expand your network in a way that aligns with your goals?
5. Looking at the example women highlighted in this lesson, what practices do you want to adopt or adapt for your own digital presence?

In this story-time episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, Dr. Renée Jordan invites listeners into the media center to listen in on four interconnected stories from the Embracing Digital Literacies lesson.

Through the voices of Tia, Nadine, Ebony, Nicole, Jazmin, Sharlene, Dominique, and Jaleesa, we explore what digital literacies look like in real life for Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women and girls—from asking better questions to streaming your work in public.

At the end of the episode, Dr. Jordan invites you to choose your own project focus—personal, academic, or professional—and shares her plan to work on a professional project to promote Black-Liberation.Tech and Jordan Nuance LLC.

This episode is a gentle but powerful reminder: digital literacies are not just for middle schoolers. They are life-long practices for all ages and stages.

Episode Highlights

• A circle of girls, mothers, and tech professionals gathers in a media center to explore digital literacies as everyday skills—not just buzzwords.
• In Embracing Digital Literacies, the focus is on asking questions and communicating with confidence—online and offline.
• In Digital Literacies in Action, listeners hear concrete examples of connecting, DM’ing, dividing tasks, and justifying decisions in digital spaces.
• In The Digital Literacies Journey, the conversation expands to interaction, promotion, publicizing, and streaming as ways to build community and visibility.
• In Digital Literacies Workshop, teaching and taking digital notes become central practices for sharing knowledge and tracking growth.
• Dr. Jordan closes by inviting listeners to choose a project focus—personal, academic, or professional—and models that choice by naming her own: a professional project to promote Black-Liberation.Tech and Jordan Nuance LLC.

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. Which character or moment in the stories sounded the most like you right now? Was it asking questions, DM’ing, teaching, streaming, or something else?
2. When you think about your own digital life, which literacy feels strongest—asking/communicating, connecting/collaborating, promoting/publicizing, or teaching/taking notes? Which one would you like to grow next?
3. If you chose a personal, academic, or professional project today, what would it be? How could digital literacies help you move that project forward?
4. Where in your current routines are you already practicing digital literacies without naming them? (For example: group chats, reposting opportunities, live-streaming, or documenting your process.)
5. Who are the women in your life—family, community, or online—who model healthy, liberating digital practices? What have you learned from watching them?
6. After hearing these stories, what’s one concrete action you can take this week to move your project from idea to reality?

In this episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, I unpack how I approach social platforms—not for likes, but for learning, community, and movement. We explore tweeting (as purposeful publishing) and reposting (as ethical amplification): layering long-form ideas into accessible clips, checking facts (especially with AI), crediting sources, and ending with clear calls to action. You’ll hear how I translate research into everyday language, why I post less but with intention, and how sharing can democratize knowledge for Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women and girls in tech and education. If you’re ready to turn posts into impact, this one’s for you.

What you’ll learn

• A practical framework for posting with purpose (voice over visibility)
• How to “layer” content: podcast → 60-second clip → quote card → prompt
• Ethical reposting: context, credit, verification, and community care
• Simple ways to pair every share with an action that sparks movement

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. When you share online, what outcome are you hoping to create—and how can you signal that action clearly?
2. Which long-form idea could you “layer” this week into a short clip or quote card so more people can access it?
3. What’s one ethical step (credit, context, fact-check, or permissions) you can add to your reposting routine?

Receipts, Records, and Real-Life Learning: What a Budget Can Teach Us

Welcome back to another episode of Black-Liberation.Tech. I’m your host, Dr. Renée Jordan — educator, instructional technologist, and your companion on this journey toward digital clarity, confidence, and liberation.

Today, we’re doing something special.

We’re taking it back — all the way to June of 2021 — to two videos that lived on my dissertation website. At the time, they were simple demonstrations of digital literacies. But looking back now? They were snapshots of survival, strategy, and everyday instructional technology in real life.

And today, we’re revisiting them through a liberation lens — asking what they taught me then, what they reveal now, and what they might offer you as you level up in your own digital literacy journey.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

In this episode…

• You’ll hear two archival demonstrations of digital literacy from 2021.
• We explore budgeting as a form of digital navigation, planning, and self-determination.
• We examine credit monitoring as a digital literacy tied to agency, advocacy, and long-term decision-making.
• We connect personal financial management to broader themes of empowerment, community uplift, and tech-enabled confidence.
• We reflect on how digital literacies show up in places we often overlook — especially in Black, Afro-Latina, and Latina communities.
• We make space for thinking about how your everyday digital habits reflect resilience, creativity, and purpose.

REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS FOR LISTENERS

1. When you think about your digital habits around money — budgeting, banking, tracking, planning — what do they reveal about your relationship to stability and self-trust?
2. What digital tools do you already use to support your financial, academic, or career goals? How might you use them more intentionally?
3. How did you learn your earliest financial lessons, and how do those memories shape the way you navigate digital platforms today?
4. Where in your life are you already practicing digital literacy without naming it?
5. If you could build one new digital habit this year — big or small — what would it be?

If you enjoyed today’s episode, go ahead and rate, review, and follow the podcast so more people can discover this work.

And until next time, remember: your digital skills are not just tools — they are pathways to freedom, clarity, and possibility.

Curate & Circulate: Reposting, Unfollowing, and the Art of Digital Stewardship

In this episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, Dr. Renee Jordan explores two often overlooked digital literacies—reposting and unfollowing—as acts of stewardship, integrity, and care.

Rather than treating these actions as passive clicks, Dr. Jordan reframes them as intentional strategies for community building and professional growth. From sharing opportunities ethically to curating a peaceful, purpose-driven feed, this conversation centers how Black, Afro-Latina, and Latina women in tech and education use digital discernment to sustain both creativity and well-being.

Listeners will learn how to:

• Repost content that informs, uplifts, and democratizes knowledge
• Give proper credit and add value when amplifying others’ voices
• Unfollow and mute with purpose—protecting focus without damaging relationships
• Build camaraderie through transparency, empathy, and professional boundaries
• Turn curation into a liberation practice rooted in Ubuntu and community care

Because in the end, digital freedom isn’t just about who you follow—it’s about how you circulate care.

Key Takeaways

1. Reposting is a form of generosity. It’s how knowledge keeps moving, connecting classrooms to communities.
2. Ethical sharing builds trust. Always cite, add context, and show how ideas connect to lived experience.
3. Unfollowing is stewardship, not rejection. It’s a boundary that protects peace and professionalism.
4. Transparency strengthens relationships. Explaining your curation choices prevents misunderstanding.
5. Liberation work includes digital hygiene. Curating what you consume helps sustain creativity and well-being.

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. How do your reposting habits reflect your values and professional purpose?
2. When you amplify others’ work, how do you ensure you’re adding context and credit?
3. What signs tell you it’s time to unfollow or mute an account for your mental and emotional health?
4. How might you communicate your digital boundaries in ways that build trust rather than distance?
5. In what ways could you model ethical amplification for your students, colleagues, or creative peers?

Level Up: Reclaiming Digital Literacies as Tools for Liberation

In this episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, we explore what it really means to level up our digital literacies—not just to keep pace with technology, but to deepen our purpose, our community, and our sense of agency.

Drawing from the Interaction Lessons D2.0 OER, Dr. Jordan reflects on how reading, socializing, and posting online can move beyond habit into practice—becoming acts of persistence, connection, and design justice.

Together we unpack how these everyday digital actions, when approached with Ubuntu and intentionality, transform into professional power moves within Instructional Technology and beyond.

Listeners will hear:

• How to turn online reading into critical reflection and collaborative insight
• What it looks like to socialize digitally with care, reciprocity, and boundaries
• Ways to post and share knowledge that democratize information and build trust
• How Black, Afro-Latina, and Latina women are reshaping tech culture through purpose-driven digital presence

Tune in for practical frameworks, cultural grounding, and liberatory storytelling that remind us: to level up is to lift up.

Episode Highlights

• “Reading online is not just absorbing—it’s locating ourselves in the story of knowledge-making.”
• “Digital socializing becomes powerful when it honors reciprocity and community care.”
• “Posting with purpose shifts our digital presence from visibility to voice.”
• “Liberation-centered tech practice means verifying, then trusting—choosing discernment over distraction.”
• “Every scroll, comment, and share can be an act of design justice if rooted in Ubuntu.”

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. Which digital literacy—reading, socializing, or posting—most reflects how you currently engage online?
2. How might you shift that literacy from consumption to collaboration?
3. Where do you see opportunities to use your digital presence to amplify underrepresented voices?
4. What boundaries or ethical practices help you protect your peace while staying visible?
5. How could Level Up look in your own career, classroom, or creative practice?

Unfollow to Flourish: Digital Boundaries and Ethical Reposting

In this week’s episode, we explore what it means to persist with purpose in the digital age. From ethical reposting to the power of the unfollow button, we dive into how Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women are shaping online culture through care, credit, and community.

We unpack:

• The ethics of reposting: how to amplify others’ voices while honoring their authorship.
• The power of digital discernment—knowing when to unfollow for your mental, creative, and spiritual health.
• Best practices from social media strategists and advocates who use reposting not for clout, but for collective elevation.
• Reflective tools for curating your digital environment so it aligns with your values, goals, and community care.

This conversation reminds us that persistence online isn’t about constant posting—it’s about consistent integrity.

Reflective Questions for Listeners

Use these during or after the episode for journal prompts, classroom discussion, or coaching reflection:

1. When was the last time you reposted someone’s work that deeply resonated with you? How did you ensure credit was given?
2. What does “adding value” look like when you amplify someone else’s voice online?
3. Think about your current social media feed—whose content reflects your growth, and whose drains your energy?
4. How might unfollowing be a form of liberation, not rejection?
5. What would it look like to build a “liberation-centered feed” that nourishes rather than numbs you?

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In this episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, the main character of the story features Ebony — a grassroots organizer whose digital literacy journey shows how persistence, curiosity, and community can change everything. From Hampton, Virginia, to the Ivy League, Ebony’s story reminds us that mastery doesn’t come from isolation — it’s built through asking questions, reading deeply, and connecting intentionally.

Dr. Jordan unpacks two essential digital literacies in this episode:

1. Reading a Lot — using research, reflection, and intentional curiosity to grow your expertise; and
2. Socializing as Strategic Networking — finding your digital community, nurturing authentic connections, and building bridges that move your work forward.

Whether you’re a student, a professional, or a lifelong learner, this episode invites you to think about how your reading habits and digital relationships shape your growth — and how to make both more intentional, grounded, and liberating.

Reflective Questions for Listeners:

1. When was the last time something you read online — a post, an article, or a story — changed how you saw yourself or your work?
2. Who are the digital mentors or communities that help you grow, even if you’ve never met them in person?
3. How might you become that source of light for someone else — sharing what you learn in ways that empower your digital village?