#mLearnCon – How to Participate in a Conference Backchannel. The eLearning Guild’s mLearnCon Conference and Expo starts next week, taking place June 18-20 in San Jose, California.
Attendees should now be setting plans in order to get the maximum amount of value out of the event. One thing that should definitely be part of your plan is participating in the conference’s backchannel. For many people, the backchannel is a new concept. A great many others may have heard of the backchannel but never actually participated in one. If you’re interested in participating in the mLearnCon backchannel, either at the event or remotely, it’s something you should prepare yourself for in advance. For starters, do you know what a Backchannel is?
Step One: Join the TwitterVerse In order to participate in a backchannel you must have access to the technology through which the sharing takes place. Joining Twitter is actually very easy, and can be done in less than five minutes. In Twitter users can decide whose updates they subscribe to. Step Two: Participate. Twitter Facts And Figures 2012 [INFOGRAPHIC]
The 100 Best Twitter Tools For Teachers (2012 Edition) Untitled. Tweetdoc: Document your twitter event. Using Twitter in a face-to-face Workshop. I’ve just been reading yet another article that expresses the view that Twitter is a trivial, inconsequential tool and has no place in learning, so I thought I’d write this posting on my experiences of using Twitter in a face-to-face Workshop.
On Friday 30 April, as a Day 3 stream at the Informatology Conference in London I ran a one-day Masterclass on Social Media in Learning. The purpose of the event was to look at how social media can be used to supportlearning and performance within an organisational context. However, as I was planning this event there were a number of key ways that I wanted to “deliver” it: I therefore decided to make use of Twitter throughout the whole event, as it is a very easy-to-use tool – and at the same time very powerful tool. Registration instructions for the event asked participants to set up a Twitter account in advance of the session (if they hadn’t already got one); the reason for this was I didnt want to spend valuable time doing this at the event. Encouraging a Conference Backchannel on Twitter. [This is a guest post by Derek Bruff, assistant director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and senior lecturer in mathematics at Vanderbilt.
You can follow Derek on Twitter (@derekbruff) and on his blog, where he writes about educational technology, student motivation, and visual thinking, among other topics. -- @jbj] You may have noticed that big conferences tend to attract a lot of conversation on Twitter these days. Team ProfHacker and friends shared their perspectives on the use of Twitter (and other, related topics) at the MLA conference last month in a massive group post, for instance. There were over 800 people who “tweeted” using the hashtag for that conferences, #MLA11, contributing among them more than 7,600 tweets. That’s a lot of conversation. I had two chances last fall to try my hand at organizing a conference backchannel via Twitter. Based on those experiences, here’s my guide to encouraging a conference backchannel on Twitter. In Jason B. How to use Twitter for Social Learning.