OERu Social Network
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.
Note that Saylor Academy's LiDA100 course combines all four of the OERu micro-courses. This Saylor course will use four hashtags for the backchannel: #lida101 for unit one conversations; #lida102 for unit two; #lida103 for unit three; and #lida104 for unit four.
What is a Mastodon Social Network?
Mastodon is a federated social network that uses 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
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.