Re-Formar

Vai decorrer na próxima semana (8 e 9 JUL) em Barcelona a “PLE Conference”. Uma conferência que vai contar com a presença de alguns dos mais reputados investigadores mundiais sobre a temática dos PLE (Personal Learning Environments).

Para lá de ser um prazer enorme estar presente do lado do público, será um prazer redobrado, para mim, e tenho a certeza que para o José Mota, apresentar um workshop denominado “Twitter – The heart of your #PLE ?

Para despertar o apetite aqui fica um pequeno resumo (em inglês) do que vamos apresentar:

This workshop will explore and discuss the possibilities of using Twitter as the heart of a Personal Learning Environment and how, through Twitter and its related applications, one can develop and maintain an effective network and an aggregated online presence. Due to the huge potential of Twitter as a network building tool, connecting people and resources, it can be construed as the “pump” that keeps the flow going, feeding information in and out of the PLE. This information may be later aggregated, filtered, organized and transformed using the features present in Twitter and in other services or applications that interoperate with it, and also through the use of the other tools and services present in a PLE.

After a brief presentation of Twitter’s potential to serve as the heart of a PLE, participants will start by presenting themselves on Twitter, using a defined hashtag, and follow one another, to set up the environment in which we will communicate online. They will then proceed to more elaborate actions, like using hashtags, groups and lists to organize their network, and learn how they can manage multiple identities (i.e. accounts) on Twitter. Finally, they will explore ways in which they can aggregate and manage their Twitter stream, Facebook account and pages, blogs, social bookmarking, etc. using Hootsuite, and learn how to synchronize/connect Twitter with other services that they may be using, like Facebook or several Google services (e.g. iGoogle, Buzz, Google Reader, etc.).

All together they will create an environment where they can search, filter, save and publish their content. At the end of the workshop participants should be able to understand the potential of Twitter as a core piece (the Heart) in a PLE and to start building/developing their Twitter presence and network from this perspective, if they so wish.

Considering the contents and services that will be used, participants in the workshop should have:

• a Twitter account
• some basic notions of how Twitter works
• a Delicious account
• basic experience in the use of some of the services (social bookmarking, Facebook, some Google Services, for example)

their own laptop (we are assuming the room will not be equipped with computers).