So you have a Twitter account (if not, check out How To Create a Twitter Account), but can’t find your fellow classmates (or TLT Symposium Feed) to follow. Here you go: 1. Log in to your Twitter account. 2. Go to an individual’s Twitter page (a full list is below). The address for any individual’s [...]

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Team Tweet would like to remind everyone to create a Twitter account prior to Saturday’s TLT Symposium so that you are able to tweet (the official name for a message you send via Twitter) your experiences throughout the day. A great portion of our presentation in April will center around our experiences at the symposium. [...]

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In a previous entry I describe a Camp on the Web. I originally intended to simply share a new podcast I had created for Golden Slipper Camp, but went off in another direction. This entry, therefore, is dedicated to the podcast. The first podcast features myself and Uncle Spoon, the camp’s Evening Activities Specialist, explaining [...]

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I just realized I have been heavily involved in using web 2.0 to create community but that I haven’t really shared any of my efforts with the class in which I am further exploring some of these concepts. This entry started with the intention of sharing a podcast that I had just created and then [...]

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Ok, so the articles I discuss in this entry aren’t secret, but they may be hidden from you — until now! As previously mentioned, I am enrolled in a class that studies Community Informatics – the study of how communities use information technology to accomplish and develop their goals. In week 7 we read some [...]

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Hi All, I shaved Tweet Talk 1 down to 23 minutes, and I added some music tracks that I made up for the intro, transitions, and finale. I also converted it to mp3. Listen to this new version and enjoy! Tweet Talk 1 (edited).mp3

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I know some people have already seen this link, but there are some subscribers (Hi Sean!) who don’t follow the entire course site. Here is the first podcast by my group, The Tweets. We begin by discussing Twitter before tackling some of the other, tougher issues and themes of this class. Podcasting seemed to be [...]

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I just read an article by Blanchard and Markus for my Community Informatics class. Here is the article itself:blanchard-2002.pdf This article, and many other community and internet resources, can be also found at our class website. The introduction lists some existing definitions for “communities” in current literature (great list of references!) and examines how these [...]

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You can honestly respond with “Ok, but it depends on who is asking.” Some thoughts on identity…first, I’ll start with my title and lead-in. Before I go any further, it is important to know that my primary interest is non-formal education, specifically the camp industry, and I have worked at a summer camp for the [...]

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Here is something I have been thinking about with regard to ‘peripheral’ members of our community. With Carla, or even internet lurkers (hello out there to all of our fans; we do this for you, and thank you for your support!), there is some quantifiable and observable way for us to know that they are [...]

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