Okay, so that was a lot to take in, I realize, and many heads are spinning! Of all the sessions, this was the one where we covered/subscribed to most new tools:
- Netvibes – for subscribing to various feeds
- GCast – where we will post all the podcast episodes (of which you’ll each contribute to make one)
- Blip.tv – where we will post the videos you make (one each) and where any tutorial videos I make will be uploaded
- the course wiki on wetpaint – where we will do notes for each session and where you can find information and post practical questions in the forum
- and finally the wordpress blogs, where you will do all the reflection pieces and comment on each others’ blogs
If you’ve used one or more of the tools before, that makes it a bit easier, but if not, it’s hard to keep them apart at first.
Next time, we’ll be talking about Web 2.0 and more about blogging. That will give you time to digest these ideas – what is a blog, what is a wiki, how do they differ, and perhaps more importantly right now, how are we going to be using them for this course?
I moved back the reading I’d initially set for Friday, so there are no reading assignments or anything else to do until Feb. 24 – many of you are still doing another course, and there’s no need to go overboard.
It would be useful to log into your blog just to mess about with it, though, so at least some of what we did today will stick. In the meantime, I’ll add some tutorial videos on how to do some of the common tasks in wordpress.
Also, if you didn’t yet fill out your participant profile, please do that.
Thanks!
Thanks Stale