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For those of you who have followed the Twitter account we set up for the Digital Media and Learning Competition, thanks for following! The competition closes today at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (GMT-4) and then we'll begin the great sort. I was the person behind that Twitter account, and will continue to post occasional updates from it for our 260+ followers. As a one-to-many communication tool, Twitter is right up HASTAC's alley and allowed us to quickly grow an informal network of interested folks.

USC Upstate held its first SpeedGeeking event Friday afternoon in Spartanburg, SC. The event was a chance for interested members of the university and community to hear 9 rapid-fire, 10-minute presentations on uses of new technology for academic, pedagogical, and collaborative purposes.

Here's a run down of the presentations:

Yesterday I wrote a long blog about the importance of prior connections to social networking, participatory learning, and what media visionary Tim O'Reilly calls Web 2.0. Then O'Reilly himself tweeted www.dmlcompetition.net to his twitter network of some 9000+ plus all of us who follow him on Twitter. Amazing reach and influence in 140 characters . .  Here's the O'Reilly tweet that has our hearts a'twitterin:

http://twitter.com/timoreilly 

Hello! I plan to make some of my contributions to the HASTAC Scholars community in videoblog form. In this installment: What is twitter? What is its appeal? How are people using it? How are people using it creatively? The Battlestar Galactica RPG twittercast and twitter in the classroom.

 

The DML Competition is now on Twitter, and you can follow us there: http://twitter.com/dmlComp

This Twitter instructional video is one of the best I've ever seen.  Who, What, Why, Where, and How, as they used to say in journalism class.  140 words or less.  Gotcha!

Does anyone know what is the proper way to cite a Twitter reference? (Or should we ask how do you catch a moonbeam in your hand?)