Daily Bookmark Post 02/04/2010
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StudentCon 2010
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If I learned anything this past weekend from my virtual attendance of Educon, I learned that teachers need to occasionally take a back seat to their students and learn from them. Students have so much to offer and we, as educators, forget that we are not always the experts in the room nor do we have to be.
It is in this spirit that I am proposing to my principal a student-led teacher technology conference called StudentCon 2010 – Citrus County’s ONLY student-led technology conference.
The planning for this event is in it’s early stages, so I am asking for help. I have never organized anything like this before. I have never asked teachers to attend sessions completely led by students and, quite frankly, have no idea how the teachers at my school will react to it.
I’m looking for ideas, suggestions, or words of caution. I have created a wiki for the conference where I am brainstorming ideas and would LOVE input from anyone. If you can help out in any way, please visit the StudentCon 2010 wiki and offer any suggestions or advice you may have.
My students are very excited about this. Their enthusiasm is contagious…
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Educon – the Twitter event
Nearly 7000 tweets and almost 1000 Twitterers later, Educon has come to a close. I had the pleasure of following virtually via the Elluminate rooms SLA had set up and by following the #educon hashtag in my Tweetdeck panel. It was great for those of us that were unable to attend in person and we thank SLA for setting this up for us.
The tweets were coming fast and furious. Since I was learning so much, I felt obligated to contribute in some small way. I decided to archive the tweets for #educon in the same way I archive the weekly #edchats.
I have archived the tweets by session here.
If you would rather see all 6600 tweets in a single spreadsheet, you can find that here.
As mentioned before, almost 1000 different Twitter users tweeted using a hashtag of #educon. I’ve created lists using TweepML. Below, you’ll find the links to each of the lists (there’s a limit of 250 users per list.) There are amazing educators on these lists. I would encourage you to follow many of them to build up your PLN.
List 1 – _amrita – drmmtatom
List 2 – dsantur – krains
List 3 – krazy_kell13244 -raventech
List 4 – rbarnes -ziegeran
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Archiving “tweets” using The Archivist
Let me begin by saying, if you are a Mac user, this post will not apply to you. Sorry. The Archivist is PC only at this point. If you’re on a Mac and interested in archiving your Tweets, I would suggest checking out “10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets” on the great ReadWriteWeb blog (ignore number 1.)
For the past couple of months, I have had the pleasure of archiving the incredible #edchat discussions on Twitter. It’s an amazing group of educators sharing ideas and experiences for a couple of hours a week using the Twitter hashtag #edchat. Here’s how I do it using The Archivist.
Download The Archivist.
If you do not currently have .Net Frameworks version 3.5, you will see the following:
Once the installations are complete (.NET 3.5 can take a while), you’re ready to use the program.
Launch The Archivist:
The program is incredibly easy to use. Simply type in what you’re looking for in the “Search for” field and click on “Get Latest.” In the case of #edchat, I type in “#edchat” in the field.
You will then see the last 1500 tweets that contain your search term:
At this point, I could click on the Save button and save as an .xml file, but I want to make this publicly viewable inGoogle Docs, so I “Export to Excel.” The Archivist exports to a tab delimited .txt file. After opening this file in Excel, I remove the “id” field, which, I believe, is the id number of the tweet on Twitter (currently the id numbers are in the 5.7 BILLIONS.)
Once I’ve saved in Excel, I remove all of the tweets, with the exception of those for the particular #edchat session I’m archiving. I then sort the tweets in ascending order, so they appear in chronologically. After sorting them, I save the file as an Excel file (.xls) and upload to my Google Docs account. Once I’ve uploaded the file to Google Docs, I publish the file as a web page viewable by anyone.
After the document has been published, I send out a tweet using the #edchat hashtag announcing the address to the archive.
It’s that simple…
@web20classroom maintains a list of all of the #edchat archives in his Delicious account here.
