Other Ways to Participate in #lrnchat">Other Ways to Participate in #lrnchat
Jane Bozarth(@JaneBozarth) facilitated a mini-#lrnchat last week that has spun off some very interesting activities for a one-off event of its type.
I happened upon a very engaging conversation with Paul Simbeck-Hampson (@simbeckhampson), and as we discussed and debated some of the merits of Google Wave, the use-case we referred back to, #lrnchat, highlighted something for Paul that he quickly took action on: organize a volunteer effort to produce weekly summaries of #lrnchat events.
In my opinion, this is a highly valuable opportunity for lurkers and observers of #lrnchat to participate and contribute to the community. It’s definitely something that’s needed. #lrnchat works great for contributors who participate in the moment, but it is often very difficult to make sense of the threads of conversation post-game — much less to put what you learned in a usable format to share with others in your organization.
If you love #lrnchat and you reslish the opportunity to really absorb what’s being discussed, the transfer from one format to another is a strong way to engrain that knowledge.
Paul has information on how to get started with this effort on the #lrnchat website.
UPDATE: The first summary is located here: http://lrnchat.wordpress.com/myths-truths/
Buzz + Twitter + Wave…could be interesting.
I really like Wave for this kind of activity – co-authoring but I don’t see a lot of people building their comfort with Wave. That’s kind of how Paul and I got into that conversation — talking about structure in Google Wave.
Buzz is interesting in some ways for this kind of activity, but I’m afraid it starts to get unmanageable when you have so many comments responding at the same time — the interface becomes a constraint to how much you can follow, where Twitter (more like Tweetdeck or TweetChat) accomodates that rapidfire activity well.
Still… Marcia turned me onto what #journchat does for a summary. Someone acts as moderator, favorite-ing what they feel are the big points that emerge and then they simply cull those favorites in an organized way, based on the structure of the chat. That ultimately might be the easiest and straight-forward way of doing it.
Doesn’t make it the best way — doesn’t mean you can’t have a community that’s interested in pouring through the tweets to derive the juice from the fruit, either.