We held a rather successful workshop today at CIT all about the Social Web.
The morning began with a provocative talk from our guest speaker Leigh Blackall, webcast from Dunedin in NZ, where he talked about teaching being dead (long live learning!) - well received by the 40 strong bunch of teachers who attended! Thanks Leigh, much appreciated!
We then moved into three workshops run concurrently on
- three ways to blog (plus a moblog documenting the session),
- collaborating with wikis, and
- managing your social web with tags.
All workshops were received with much enthusiasm by the participants who were keen to jump into the tools and give them a red hot go! Our central theme across all three workshops was food (being a key social activity in itself!).
Participants in the blogging workshop
We finished up with a quick few words from Vaughan Croucher, our Dean of Learning Services at CIT (thanks Vaughan!) and launched our new look PD website called Samson.
We also demonstrated the power of aggregation using a visual aggregator, Suprglu, that brought all the workshop activities together. Thanks again participants! It's only the social web when there are people coming together to use it!
technorati tags:social.web, learning, leigh.blackall, cit, flexible.learning, samson, blogs, wikis, tagging
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