Hello Wayne, This is a wonderful development. I am very glad you were encouraged to share this information and I’m certainly keen to explore further,
All the best, Judy Judy O’Connell Senior Lecturer Course Director School of Information Studies Faculty of Arts and Education Charles Sturt University Albury, NSW 2640 Tel: +61 2 69334084 Email: juoconn...@csu.edu.au On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 3:09 PM +1000, "Wayne Mackintosh" <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com<mailto:mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi everyone The OER Foundation has set up a Mastodon instance<http://antispam.csu.edu.au:32224/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiYyZDdkOWJhZTFlYTcwYTI3Zj01QjQxOUM4OF84NDM0Nl81NTVfMSYmNGNmYjI0ZGU0Njg4MmY3PTEzMzMmJnVybD1odHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRm1hc3RvZG9uJTJFb2VydSUyRW9yZyUyRg==> which is a federated and open source social networking alternative. (This short video<http://antispam.csu.edu.au:32224/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiYyZDdkOWJhZTFlYTcwYTI3ZT01QjQxOUM4OF84NDM0Nl81NTVfMSYmMGMxYjQ0ZGZlMjI4ZmZjPTEzMzMmJnVybD1odHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnlvdXR1JTJFYmUlMkZJUFNiTmRCbVdLRQ==> provides a good overview of what Mastodon is.) At the OERu, we do not want any learner to be forced to use any proprietary hosted technologies in order to participate in our learning opportunities, and this is why we have set up an OERu instance<http://antispam.csu.edu.au:32224/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiYyZDdkOWJhZTFlYTcwYTI3Zj01QjQxOUM4OF84NDM0Nl81NTVfMSYmNGNmYjI0ZGU0Njg4MmY3PTEzMzMmJnVybD1odHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRm1hc3RvZG9uJTJFb2VydSUyRW9yZyUyRg==> of the Mastodon software. It's primarily intended to support OERu learners rather than forcing learners to join, services like Twitter. Most conversations on our instance will be focused on OERu and OER related topics, however as open technology, WikiEducator users are free and most welcome to create accounts on our instance (thanks Steve Foerster for suggesting that I post this announcement on the WikiEd list). As a federated technology there are many different instances and communities you can join with the advantage of being able to interact with users on difference instances. If you need a little help in setting up an account and finding out how Mastodon works - you can consult the OERu support site<http://antispam.csu.edu.au:32224/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiYyYTZjOWRhYjQzZjI1NzZmYj01QjQxOUM4OF84NDM0Nl81NTVfMSYmNmRkYjQ0OWZiNjM5ZmVkPTEzMzMmJnVybD1odHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRmNvdXJzZSUyRW9lcnUlMkVvcmclMkZzdXBwb3J0JTJGc3R1ZHlpbmctY291cnNlcyUyRm9lcnUtc29jaWFsLW5ldHdvcmslMkY=>. Happy tooting! Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh Director OER Foundation and OERu facilitator UNESCO - ICDE Chair in OER Mastodon: @mack...@mastodon.oeru.org<mailto:mack...@mastodon.oeru.org> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org<http://antispam.csu.edu.au:32224/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiYyZDdkOWJhZTU3YjIwYTdmZT01QjQxOUM4OF84NDM0Nl81NTVfMSYmZWQ5ZWY0ZWUyNjc4NGZjPTEzMzMmJnVybD1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3JTJFd2lraWVkdWNhdG9yJTJFb3Jn> To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator<http://antispam.csu.edu.au:32224/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiYyYTY2ODhiMjA4YjM0NjY3Zj01QjQxOUM4OF84NDM0Nl81NTVfMSYmNDgxYTY0YmU0Nzk5ZGI2PTEzMzMmJnVybD1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGZ3JvdXBzJTJFZ29vZ2xlJTJFY29tJTJGZ3JvdXAlMkZ3aWtpZWR1Y2F0b3I=> To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout<http://antispam.csu.edu.au:32224/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiYyMjY2ODBiOTAxZjgwYjZiZj01QjQxOUM4OF84NDM0Nl81NTVfMSYmNmMzZWU1ZGE0NjM5ZGVkPTEzMzMmJnVybD1odHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRmdyb3VwcyUyRWdvb2dsZSUyRWNvbSUyRmQlMkZvcHRvdXQ=>. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.