An overview of the social and collaborative conference tools

A key component of ULearn08 will be the contribution by participants to the understanding and knowledge being created throughout the conference through the use of Web 2.0 applications.

Blogs and blogging

A blog is a frequently updated website, usually in the form of an online journal or newsletter, consisting of personal thoughts and commentary. You may have your own blog set up already. If that is the case, please continue to blog while you are in Christchurch at the conference, and include the tags ulearn08. For those new to blogging, visit the Bloggers' Cafe. There is more information on the blogs and blogging page.

Keynote and spotlight videos

Many of the keynotes and spotlight sessions will be recorded by Media Team students. These sessions (both video and slideshows) will be available online after the conference for further viewing and professional learning sessions at your school.

Conference newsletter

The student reporters in the Media Team will be compiling a newspaper for each day of the conference. These will be handed out around the venue as well as being available on this website.

Flickr

Flickr is a shared online photo storage service. If you have a flickr account and take photos at the conference, consider uploading them, including the tag ulearn08 or ulearn. If you don’t have a flickr account, consider setting one up before the conference and remember to bring your digital camera! To view all conference photos uploaded by the conference team go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/ulearn

Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. At the conference, add people to your Twitter network and tweet about what you’re up to, what you’ve just seen, where you’re going to next, etc ..!

To keep track of everybody's tweets, we have set up a ULearn08 Twitter page. This will show all tweets which include the text #ulearn08. It is important to include the hash symbol # before ulearn08 (all one word), so that our page will pick up your feed.