Our second Twitter chat is scheduled for tomorrow night, Monday 17 August, 6pm til 7pm. This week, we’re talking about readers’ advisory services. Here’s everything you need to know: Topic Readers’ advisory Hashtag #ifn614readchat Guest tweeters Jo Beazley: @jobeaz Alison Miles: @alisonwrote Twitter Chat Champions Debbie Kirsty Michele Sarah Steph Samantha Taylor Questions Q1 Why […]
Week 4 class follow up and Week 5 materials
We had a very small class last night – just 10 of us on campus. We worked through a design thinking activity, and I’m going to post an online version for everyone else to work through as soon as possible – hopefully tomorrow. We didn’t have time to debrief the activity, so I’ll be doing […]
Welcome to Week 4!
I’m not quite sure how we got here already, but apparently it’s Week 4! Head to the Week 4 page to watch the weekly intro video, see information about tonight’s class, find the readings, access the quiz, and be reminded of all the things you need to do this week. Don’t forget, tonight’s class is […]
Tips for writing and posting your weekly posts
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 […]