Professional reflections on education in NZ - Dancing on the shifting carpet
Monday, 2 October 2006
Hitch a ride to ULearn06
How does this social software stuff work?? Sometimes it really feels like smoke & mirrors 2 me. I blogged & posted some photos to flickr earlier today ooops yesterday & with daylight saving & a head full of ideas robbing me of sleep am just flicking thru some stuff online and have found this very interesting site HitchHikr - now i sort of have heard of it on a podcast somewhere but never really looked at it till now & still not sure how it works (if you know plz comment) So i come across this page on hitchhikr that has got lots of recent blog posts and flickr photos (the ones i posted earlier) Thnx David Warlick for making us so connected we don't know where we begin or end! I think it is all to do with tags - i used to think rss was the glue that connected us all together but i really am thinking tags are the thing! I am going back to make sure my previous posts are tagged :-)
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You've pretty much got it, Rachel. Someone registered the uLearn conference on Hitchhikr, and suggested a "tag" for the conference, ulearn06. Hitchhikr then scans the blogosphere, through Technorati, Sphere, and flickr, for blog entries and images that are tagged with ulearn06. It then lists the images and links to the blogs.
The benefit is a web site where people who can not attend the conference can hitch a ride there, and witness the event through the camera phones and bloggings of the attendees. It expanded the conference beyond its place an time.
Wish I'd been there. I will be in New Zealand for a conference in February.
Yahoo - Learning@School Rotorua? Look forward to meeting you there :-)
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