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

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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 Treadwellpt36@cornell.edu@ptreadwell – twitter