Thread:Requiring microblog post (6)

I like mailing lists too ;-)

Perhaps there is a way of combining a number of technologies to achieve the goals. Specifically -- I'm keen to find a solution which:


 * facilitates immediate student-student interactions, i.e. sharing thoughts and ideas as they progress through the materials. Something less onerous than drafting a blog post.
 * scales well -- think of 500 plus participants per course
 * is easy to aggregate a live feed of the tags
 * does not require a significant learning curve for newbies
 * does not require significant administration as set up on our end.

I was thinking of asking participants to create an account on identi.ca and giving instructions to subscribe to a group set up for this initiative. Twitter users can link their accounts to their identi.ca posts. We can also harvest the feeds from individual blogs users already use.

Let's have a chat and explore options -- still thinking ....

Cheers