PLE tools from Robin Hamman
Robin Hamman from the BBC and cybersoc.com paid a visit to Cardiff today for a chat and workshop about blogging and social media to journalism students and staff at Cardiff Uni’s Bute Building.
Fascinating guy, great session and great fun – he clearly loves what he does.
Picked up quite a lot from him, so will do a bigger post later.
A few of my favourite things he talked about were the web tools he uses:
- mobile phone to Flickr – he uses zonetag which geotags the photo post on a map. unfortunately my phone will not take it, so struggling a little bit with ShoZu
- Flickr to blog – rather than uploading via your blog cms
- del.icio.us as a group sharing tool for projects
- Dopplr to keep people in touch with where you are
He may not have realised, but he might as well have been giving a lecture on e-learning because his tools could easily be part of a personalised learning environment (PLE).
Plenty of stuff about the community aspects, which is also relevant to learning as well as social media.
Hope he doesn’t mind, but he’s the first post in a new category – gurus of geek now “mi online gurus”, dedicated to people whose love of technology makes me think about what I’m doing (in a very good way).
I’m just back to the help files on Shozu to find out where I’m going wrong and to pimp my Press – you’ll know it worked when a picture of Robin appears!
(Oh yes, and I’m playing with Flock too!)
To be continued…
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