web2.0

If you are a twitterer, we are keen to have you tweet about your experiences at ULearn08.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. At the conference, add people to your Twitter network and tweet about what you’re up to, what you’ve just seen, where you’re going to next, etc …!

To keep track of everybody’s tweets, we have set up a ULearn08 Twitter page here. This will show all tweets which include the text #ulearn08. It is important to include the hash symbol # before ulearn08 (all one word), so that our page will pick up your feed.

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A key component of ULearn08 will be the contribution by participants to the understanding and knowledge being created throughout the conference through the use of Web 2.0 applications. To do this, we will be using a range of media to connect before, during, and after the conference. Here are some ways you can connect with others:

Blogs and blogging
If you are a blogger, please continue to blog while you are in Christchurch at the conference, and include the tags ulearn08 or ulearn08. Meet and join other bloggers during breaks at the Bloggers’ Cafe. There is more information on the blogs and blogging page.

Conference newsletter
The student reporters in the Media Team will be compiling a newspaper for each day of the conference. These will be handed out around the venue as well as being available on the ULearn08 website.

Flickr
Remember to bring your digital camera and upload your photos to your Flickr account. Tag your pictures with our conference tags, ulearn or ulearn08, so that others can search for them.

Twitter
Add people you meet to your Twitter network and tweet about your experiences at the conference. Twitter is a form of micro-blogging, where each tweet is a maximum of 140 characters - a great way of quickly letting people know what you’re up to, what you’ve just seen, where you’re going to next … and what you think about it all!

Check this page for more information about the social media being utilised at ULearn08.

Have you subscribed to the early childhood education blog yet?
http://centre4.interact.ac.nz/1723/68623 (For participants in the ECE ICT PL programme)

Take the opportunity to check out what the innovative and passionate early childhood teachers and their children and families get up to in a day before heading off into their workshops at ULearn08.

Below is a list of some of the ECE blogs available for public viewing.

Manaia Kindergarten
http://www.manaiakindergarten.blogspot.com

Next Generation Childcare
http://nextgenerationchildcare.blogspot.com

Greenwood Kindergarten
http://greenwoodkindergarten.blogspot.com

Geraldine Kindergarten
http://geraldinekindergarten.blogspot.com

Botany Downs Kindergarten
http://bdownskindy.blogspot.com/

Mangere Bridge Kindergarten
http://mangerebridgekindergarten.blogspot.com

Recently, a group of educators met in Auckland to spend the evening sharing together and exploring various aspects of ICT in education. This was an unconference event similar to the planned unconference sessions for ULearn08. Check out the impressions of the evening from some of those that attended and see the power of this type of event. The Voicethread below is an example of an web 2.0 application that you can use to activities to life with voice comment, that might have previously been a set of photos with captions.