I am currently attending an "unconference" in Duluth for MN Voices Online. The following are simply notes that I'm taking as I listen and participate in the unsessions.
Ideas that came from the time here (so far):
Spectogram: Large length of tape on the floor. Ask a question and have participants place themselves on the line according to how strong they agree or disagree with statement. Then have students defend their "literal" position.
Blogging Assignment: Pictures that spark blog stories. Provide 2-3 stories and have students write stories that stem from one or all of the pictures
Writing Context assignment. Take a twitter line then ask students to expand that one twitter line to a facebook status line, to an email, all the way to a letter to grandma.
Saturday morning:
Reality check--I opened this blogsite and started to write this entry (after checking my facebook and subscribing to mnvoices twitter feed) only to have a friend IM me. So I was IMing, blogging, having my photo taken for flickr and being videotaped as a participant in a fishbowl exercise that was being livestreamed out to the internet.
Ideas for class:
Mass Comm: "News My Way" Choose a medium for getting across your local news
Misc
There is a Facebook that is an open letter to President Obama.
Personal writing idea: Keep a box of itmes that speak to me somehow and then when the box starts to get alot of items, take the box and then use them to write a story that may or may not integrate the items in the box.
Saturday afternoon
(see twitter blog)
Mogulus--free account
Digital Video Camera with firewire cable
Choose video and mic source (dv audio and video) better quality more flexibility
Computer can act as control center because you can have input from various sites. Can type in banners that are used and can be saved to so it's one click switching.
Can RSS to blog (webpages not as easy) so embed to blog is a good idea.
Blog tv (might be able to cohost)
Can open an account and then have multiple contributers.
However, the free account will probably limit how many people may access.
Chuck from uptake is willing to answer future questions.
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