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		<title>Social media use in a crisis &#8211; #eqnz &#8211; help us learn</title>
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The social media response to the 2010 Canterbury Earthquake has been fascinating. I&#8217;d like to know more so I&#8217;m appealing for people to help with their experiences of social media, its usefulness, how informative it was (or not) etc, during this event. What can we learn?
If you are willing to help, please fill out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media use in a crisis &#8211; #eqnz &#8211; findable, usable &amp; shareable</title>
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The New Zealand twitterverse is still abuzz, as people share information about the 2010 Canterbury Earthquake and its consequences.  Now, 3 days in, these tweets are increasingly about services being restored, relief offers and businesses and organisations exchanging information &#38; aid.
Here I want to make a special mention of the University of Canterbury which has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media use in a crisis &#8211; #eqnz &#8211; how do you monitor so much information?</title>
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With the earthquake in Christchurch yesterday morning, Twitter has become an important source of information, aid, support &#38; humour. And its not just pointless babble (as an aside: the qualification of pointless babble was refuted by the excellent Danah Boyd). Here&#8217;s some of  the things people are sharing through their tweets:

pictures of damage
videos of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2010/09/social-media-use-in-a-crisis-eqnz-how-do-you-monitor-so-much-information/</link>
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		<title>Social media use in a crisis &#8211; #eqnz &#8211; which hashtag prevails?</title>
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This morning at 4.35am I woke up, not quite sure why. But I was wide awake, so I picked up my iPhone and immediately saw a tweet from @kalena: Earthquake!!! So that was what had woken me up. This in itself is not surprising in NZ where we have over 1400 earthquakes a year, about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project: What My PLN Means To Me &#8211; now at #PLE_BCN!</title>
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Hola!  I&#8217;d love your help in explaining the use of a Personal Learning Network  (PLN) for an educator &#8211; whether you&#8217;re a teacher, librarian, manager or  educational technologist.
What is this project about?
This project started last year when we combined our annual  e-learning conference eFest with the recently established teaching &#38;  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2010/07/project-what-my-pln-means-to-me-now-at-ple_bcn/</link>
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		<title>Staff development: reciprocal link between feedback and encouragement</title>
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After helping organise a staff development day about 21st C Learning (more about that later), I find myself musing on the link between feedback and encouragement as reciprocal actions.
This was a day with mixed ability and experience staff, all encouraged to take the next step up on their education technology skills ladder. They did this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2010/06/staff-development-link-between-feedback-and-encouragement/</link>
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		<title>Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers</title>
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A few weeks ago, a Social Media Cheat Sheet was doing the round. A nice visualization of the pro&#8217;s &#38; cons of each social media channel, but with a business/marketing focus. I thought I should do one for social media use in education. However for most of the teachers I work with, our Moodle (EIT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2010/05/moodle-tool-guide-for-teachers/</link>
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		<title>Online Facilitation: An email too far?</title>
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A few weeks ago, I ran an online facilitation workshop with a group of teachers &#38; their managers. Together they run a programme that is taught entirely online. As part of this, a draft of some online course protocols was on the table. Most of these had to do with the updating &#38; editing of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2010/03/an-email-too-far/</link>
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		<title>Tour de Moodle</title>
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Last week Friday I started a fun little Twitter event called Tour de Moodle. Interested in seeing other people&#8217;s Moodle setups, layouts and themes, I asked people to share a link to their Moodle homepage.
I thought it would be a perfect end-of-year activity, but last weekend was embarrasingly quiet (cue: tumbleweeds). However, after a week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2009/12/tour-de-moodle/</link>
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		<title>WPTouch &#8211; who&#8217;s a clever little plugin then?</title>
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I love serendipitous learning. This week I followed the ASCILITE Conference held in Auckland on Twitter (am still kicking myself for not being there). There&#8217;s many thoughts, links &#38; ideas I need to follow up on with regards to education technology in higher education. But what I love about  the powered up information exchange between [...]]]></description>
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