Just a heads up that the weekly intro video for this week is up, and I’ve also just added a video on designing digital literacy programs. Both of these are available on the weekly materials page. We’re catching up tonight for our third Twitter chat at 6pm, with hashtag #ifn614infolitchat and guest tweeter Kathleen Smeaton. Kathleen […]
It’s Week 5!
Welcome to Week 5! Head over to the Week 5 page to find out what’s on this week. Don’t forget, we’ve got a Twitter chat tonight at 6pm AEST. Check the Week 5 page or yesterday’s blog post for all the details.
Get ready for the Week 5 Twitter chat
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]