Thread:Requiring microblog post (2)

Hi Alison,


 * I agree with the deletion of "You are required to" as suggested.

Regarding the microblogging posts -- the intention is to develop a resource on how to create a micro-blog account with a few instructions on how to post and how this works. We will set this up as a pre-workshop activity. I think you're right -- the majority of educators will not have a micro-blog account -- so we need to address this. Also, the idea is to harvest rss feeds of all the posts as a stream of "digital conscienceless" which will be aggregated with live updates as the course proceeds. We are designing the course for large numbers of participants for each sitting -- about 500 or more per course. So we need to be careful with email notifications if we go with an LMS discussion forum. Would prefer to avoid complaints on receiving 500 emails. Also -- I need to confer with Jim -- we may decide to just use identi.ca (open source) which gives us more flexibility to embed live group streams of micro-blog posts.

Still need to think about the final implementation -- work in progress :-).

Cheers