Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧 @mackiwg@mastodon.oeru.org

I'm pleased to join @downes for a chat as part of his E-Learning 3.0 MOOC, to discuss what I've learned about community through my work (primarily, through Wikipedia and WikiProjects). Date and time TBA. Thanks @mackiwg for facilitating the intro!

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. E-Learning 3.0 MOOC
Course Hashtag

#el30

Starts October 15

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iBSfbijqt_WmMb9T8_tD8BSlPGwHogaZ8bafvhk1GS0/edit?usp=sharing

@PeteForsyth indeed - you can go here and sign up: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/ For what it's worth, in deference to Eugen's stated preference (he's the main author of Mastodon) and my own "open first, proprietary second" policy, I'm only posting one way: Mastodon->Twitter, not the other (but the platform allows you to choose either/both).

Wikipedia was designed to battle "fake news" from the start. It's not a coincidence that it's avoided the kind of criticisms leveled at other "top 10" web sites. Its core values have served it well: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-wikipedia-dodged-public-outcry-plaguing-social-media-pete-forsyth/

Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/68589 The web you thought you knew is getting ready for some major changes.

The future is here today : you can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Facebook account, but it didn’t go up — Facebook’s copyright filtering system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has (...)
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/13326

"This site is for people who don’t want to support multinational corporations any more. We’ve put everything in one place and made it easy to switch for (almost) everything you need."
https://www.noncorporate.org/

Hey people, I've been noticing the number of posts with alt text going down. It might be because of all the new users who haven't learned about the feature yet, so for them and everyone:

yall should use alt text when uploading images! what are they??? hover over the images to find out! why are they good? the tldr of it is that visually impaired computer users exist and it helps them navigate the INFOBAHN better

folks i'm gonna be real honest with you...

i NEED this Mastodon thing to take off because i just ordered 80,000 of these bumper stickers from the printer, and i can't afford to be caught holdin' my junk if this whole thing fizzles.

please consider my personal commercial interests when choosing a social media platform, thk u!

I have internal funding and approval to offer an 'e-learning 3.0' MOOC this fall (*lots* to cover here). I'll be using gRSShopper to offer it, and participants can use their own gRSShopper instances to take it.

I like to have guests participate in my MOOCs. I have my own ideas, of course, and a good set of topics. But I'd like input. Who would you like to see in the upcoming MOOC? I'm looking for diversity of perspective, new voices, internationalism...

We've had quite the influx of new users on Mastodon recently. Welcome to you all! Here are some links that you might like to explore if you're new here, or if just want to know more about how Mastodon works.

1. Resources for Mastodon newbies:

https://github.com/nolanlawson/resources-for-mastodon-newbies

2. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon:

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

3. Mastodon User's Guide

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/User-guide.md

4. How does Mastodon work?
https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/

#Mastodon #Mastotips #tootorial