Technology in use at Online Educa Berlin

Marga Perez made this wordle of the twitter posts tagged with oeb08.

There is quite an interesting set of technolgies at play here:

Twitter is a microblogging platform in which you can post what you are do in 140 characters.

Tags are used in Twitter in 2 ways @ tags to indicate the twitter name of another person, and # tags to indicate a tag for an event.

Wordle describes itself as: "a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text."

Interestingly we ran a session MUVEs for the 21st century with presentations for people on both the Muvenation and LLL3D projects, and for that session I had invented the tag mv21, Steve Wheeler (timbuckteeth) was one of the first people into the room and had his arm twisted to twitter about the session. Given the lack of other tags appearing prominently in the wordle I suspect at Online Educa Berlin (oeb08) we made the most effective use of back chanelling with Twitter while talking about MUVEs (Multi User Virtual Environments).