global awareness (with a small but useful ‘g’)
April 7th, 2008
Over at Nascent (a Nature blog), Ian Mulvany has described how he and colleagues use Hashtags and Twitter to keep track of what’s going on at a conference. This is cool—anyone know of an academic Computer Science conference where something similar is done?
I recently participated in the MaRS Experience Tech 2008 conference. They used Twitter to encourage input from the audience (though I don’t think they registered for a Hashtag).
Although they use a wide variety of technology, the dare-2b-digital (BCCampus, SAGE, SSHRC) online-event seems to address the question of informal communication surrounding sequenced activities… Dare-2b-digital is an entirely online event / competition.
http://event.dare2bdigital.ca/game
Dr. Randy LaBonte (co-host with Sandy and Paul) may be a good resource for these efforts. He is a distributed learning consultant for the BC Ministry of Education. His current work focuses on creating these types of interaction.
Check out chapter abstracts for his work on the Collaborative Book Project (in Part 3: Implementing Technology) on the Wiki:
http://collaborativebook.wikispaces.com/Collaborative+Book+-+Chapter+Synopses