Since you’re about to start posting content to your personal forums, I thought I’d share some tips for writing and publishing your weekly posts. Write offline There’s always a risk that things can go wrong when you’re writing posts directly into a web interface. Some of the things that regularly go wrong for me are… I […]
Please check the Twitter Chat Champion schedule
I’ve now posted the Twitter chat schedule, which covers hashtags, handles for guest tweeters, questions and archives. It also lists your assigned Twitter Chat Champion weeks. Almost half of you didn’t sign up, so I’ve signed you up randomly for the remaining openings. If there are any major problems (like you’re going to be away in your week) […]
Reference is dead! Long live reference!
I’ve been working through the 500+ tweets from our first Twitter chat on Monday night and I wanted to highlight some comments and ideas that jumped out at me. I thought I’d sum them up in a blog post. You can access all 500+ tweets in the story on Storify. What is reference work? In this […]
How should we debrief the Twitter chats?
In my post on lessons from the Twitter chat, several of you mentioned debriefing the Twitter chats. I thought it might be good to have an Adobe Connect session after the Twitter chats to debrief, but there are other options. One suggestion was a forum space for debriefing. I thought I’d ask you what you’d […]
Lessons from our first Twitter chat
I feel like I’m still recovering from our fast and frenetic Twitter chat on Monday night. It was my first time hosting a Twitter chat, and I know it was the first Twitter chat that many of you have participated in. I learnt some stuff from running that chat and I’ll be making some changes to […]
Your personal forums are go! Plus detailed schedule
I’ve set up your personal forums so you can start posting your activities whenever you’re ready. Go to Forums > Student forums and then look for your name. I named the forums based on the name and username you used to register for the site, so you may find your forum listed under your full […]
One other change to A1 I forgot to note
Yesterday I posted about firming up A1 based on the poll you completed last week. I forgot to mention that there are actually seven weeks in which we’ll be covering program, product and service types, but I decided that I’ll give you a free pass on one of the weeks. This means that in any […]
Help! #katefail
Well it seems my brain is still a bit fluish and I consequently forgot to start the recording for last night’s debrief class. So I have a request: could those of you who attended last night provide a definition of one or two of the buzzword bingo terms in the comments here? That way, those […]
Get ready for our first Twitter chat
Our first Twitter chat is scheduled for tonight at 6pm. There are a few things you should do to get yourself ready to play along. Not sure what a Twitter chat is? This definition from the Buffer blog explains it all: A Twitter chat is where a group of Twitter users meet at a pre-determined time to […]
Assignment 1 poll: results are in!
The Assignment 1 poll has closed and the results are in! Here’s your verdict on the questions I asked related to Assignment 1. Checkpoint 1 37% of respondents wanted to submit the first batch of activities for marking at the end of Week 8 and a further 33% didn’t mind when the submission date fell. […]