Social and Education Networking Workshop
The education and social networking workshop at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) yesterday was quite enjoyable. There were particpants from NTU, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Polytechnic and the Ministry of Education. The participants worked very hard and were most studious. I was asked excellent questions and had a number of good problems to resolve. In a day the participants:
Three issues came up:
It was an enjoyable workshop. We were busy all day and ended the day with a Twitter fest like birds coming home to roost as the sun sets.
- considered why they should set up a social~education network
- how and why they could make a difference
- looked at good examples
- learnt how to locate good blogs
- located useful blogs via technorati and bloglines,
- bookmarked them in their new del.icio.us accounts,
- created a blog
- embedded images, movies, badges and Google maps in their blogs
- added links to their blogs
- tagged their posts
- reviewed Picasa and/or Flickr accounts ~ some set them up
- set up Google Reader and subscribed to blogs, podcasts, flikr and TedTalks
- added Google Reader widget to their new iGoogle page
- added “Blog this” and del.icio.us buttons to their browsers
- set up a Twitter account and added it to their blog
Three issues came up:
- Could not add a del.icio.us feed to Google reader ~ why?
- Twitter home page design changed in the last few days ~ "difficult" to find badges now
- Jaiku bought by Google the night before so they could not set up a Jaiku ~ bad timing
It was an enjoyable workshop. We were busy all day and ended the day with a Twitter fest like birds coming home to roost as the sun sets.
Labels: Technology, Web 2.0
posted by john | 8:14 AM
2 Comments:
That's quite a lot of things to cover. And in a holistic manner too. Great outline. I'm curious what sort of discussion you all had re: question "why set up a social network"?
Why set up a social network? With respect to education in particular Ivan reasons generated include mobilise your commnunity, seek solutions for problems, provide solutions for problems, share insights, avoid working in isolation, make a difference, reflect on interests, develop communities of best practice...
Cheers
John ^_^
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