OERu social network
The OERu hosts its own social network using Mastodon for course specific activities and a backchannel for the Learning in a Digital Age community. A backchannel is a networked conversation that runs alongside the primary course conversations. You will need to know how to use the course hashtag in your toots for course related posts.
As a reminder, Saylor's LiDA100 course combines all four of the OERu micro-courses. Therefore, this Saylor course will use four hashtags for the backchannel: #lida101 for unit 1 conversations; #lida102 for unit 2; #lida103 for unit 3; and #lida104 for unit 4.
What is a Mastodon social network?
Mastodon is a federated social network with microblogging features similar to Twitter. As a federated technology, it is administered independently across many open source software servers around the world called instances rather than a single corporate provider. The OERu instance of Mastodon is hosted at mastodon.oeru.org.
Toot using the course hashtag
Purpose: Confirm digital skills to post a toot using the course hashtag.
Resources
- Help resources: Getting started with the OERu social network
Tasks
- Create an account on mastodon.oeru.org.
- Complete or update your profile information
- Post a toot and include the hashtag “#lida101” in the body of your post, sharing why you joined this course. For example:
- I joined the #lida101 course because …
- Go to the search bar and type in “#lida101″and press enter to display tweets using the course hashtag.
Last modified: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 11:47 AM