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Three toolsTwitter | Mahara | CrowdmapPaul TreadwellMay 2012
Three tools for today• Twitter• Microblogging
• Moodle | Mahara• Learning Content Management and e-Portfolio
• Crowdmap
TAKING TWEETS SERIOUSLY
What is twitter?• Social Network and Microblog• If Facebook is like a town square, Twitter is like the town crier.• 300+ million users worldwide.• Messages (or tweets) limited to 140 characters.
Why use twitter?• Post news and quick updates.• Direct traffic to your site when new content is added.• Ask questions, get answers.• Publicize events.• Provides another path to your content.
Twitter, on the web.
The Stream
@ptreadwell
Tweets
Retweet
Twitter terminology
• Follow• Automatically receive someone's tweets
• Reply• From one person to another, publically viewable
• Direct Message• From one person to another, private.
• Retweet• Repost a tweet – from someone you’re following to your
followers• # (Hashtag)• for identifying topics. Help identify content for searches
Tweet anatomy
retweet
hashtags
link
retweeted
Links,photos and more
SOCIALIZING LEARNING
Educational models need to shift
It’s no longer enough to produce content for people to consume.
We live in a world of peers.
New pathways to content aredeveloping - but is access to content education?
Moodle | Mahara• Moodle is our learning content management system• Create structured online learning opportunities• Social learning environment
Mahara | Moodle• E-Portfolio• Integrated with Moodle
• Adds new assignment type – Mahara Portfolio• Learners can capture, organize, and track learning progress
MOVING AND MAPPING
Data on the go• Apps and smartphones have enabled on the fly data collection• Video, audio, images and geolocation
• Social networking sites enable connecting the data• Mapping• Reporting
Crowdmap• Crowdsourced information gathering and mapping
Crowdmap example
Resources• Mobile Technologies and Empowerment – United Nations Development
Programme – 02/2012• http://
www.undpegov.org/sites/undpegov.org/files/undp_mobile_technology_primer.pdf
• Dial “A” for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries http://bit.ly/HaD5uL
• Pew Internet and American Life Projecthttp://www.pewinternet.org/
• Mobile is the needle, social is the threadhttp://bit.ly/HcVFTK
• Mobile Technologies and Empowerment – United Nations Development Programme – 02/2012
http://bit.ly/HcrcQr• How to be better at twitter – Megan Garber,The Atlantic 01/31/2012
Questions, Discussion and Contact
Paul [email protected]@ptreadwell – twitter