Welcome to the #WalkMyWorld Project 2016
Want
to identify ways to supercharge your own social media and blogging
skills while identifying ways to embed it in instruction? Come join us
in the 2016 iteration of the #WalkMyWorld Project.
Over
the past three years we’ve been building and iterating on an
open-learning, open-research, and open-publishing educational
experience. Around the hashtag (#WalkMyWorld) we’ve been encouraging
people to get online, create, share, and connect with others.
You
can learn a bit more about the project up to this point by viewing our
trailer (1:51). If you’ve got a bit more time, you can watch the complete video overview (19:54) of the project up to this point.
After our last walk
Since
our last iteration of the project in 2015, we had a couple more
publications and presentations. You can keep track of our research here on this page.
Speaking of pages…we decided to launch a whole new website (http://walkmy.world/).
We’re moving over all of the content from the old site and then will
shut it all down except for a link to redirect links we included in
print publications. The new website has a ton of new features baked in.
An example of this is a tweetable summary you’ll find at the top of all of our Learning Events. This will give you a quick overview of what the page will contain.
In
the website we also baked in some awesome social features. One of the
coolest happens when you highlight a section of text. It’ll provide you
with a black toolbar to automatically share out that text and page to
some of your favorite social media tools or email. You’ll also get a
second toolbar for Hypothes.is.
Annotating the web is important to us, and we decided to make it a
permanent part of our DNA. Please use Hypothes.is to mark up the page,
provide commentary, or connect us to others online.
Finally,
the planning and facilitating team is even stronger now as we’ve got a
group of new voices working with us. You can get a sneak peek of most of
us in planning sessions one (1:09:01) and two (1:00:39) for this year. I’m sure you’ll enjoy getting to know all of them through their posts and tweets.
Starting our current walk
For
the #WalkMyWorld Project, we will lead you through 10 Learning Events
(LE). For each LE, we’ll list a basic way to read, write, and connect
with the community. Please feel free to edit, revise, or hack away at
any of the LEs for your own learning and development. The texts,
directions, and “assignments” in each learning event are merely starting
points. You should find your own entry point for yourself and your
learners.
To get us started in 2016, this week is an onboarding week. What that means is that it serves as an alarm to our PLNs
to get ready. It also provides everyone with enough time to get their
Twitter accounts, social media clients, and blogging tools ready. We’re
recommending that you have at least a Twitter account and a website/blog
for this project. You are more than welcome to share your work out to
networks other than Twitter…but please include the #WalkMyWorld
hashtag…and a hashtag indicating the Learning Event you’re working on.
For #LE0 (Learning Event Zero) please review this page on the website.
If you have questions or comments about the work for this week…please
leave a comment on the page, use the tutorials, or send out tweet out on
Twitter using the #WalkMyWorld hashtag.
Let’s get started
We’re
looking forward to getting started on this walk together. Basically you
should plan on at least one blog post and tweet per week…at the
minimum. You’ll have a better sense of what to work on and post/tweet
once you read the LE for the week. The LEs will be launched on the project website and on Twitter on Sunday afternoon of each new week.
So…get yourselves ready. Say hi to each other online. And…see you in six days for #LE1. :)
Originally published at W. Ian O’Byrne.
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