Course Technology Requirements

To control and manage your learning artifacts over the long term, you're going to need some technology tools. Specifically, for this course you’ll need (1) a blog, (2) a Twitter account, (3) a Delicious account, and (4) a YouTube account.

You are required to have a blog for this class. You can use any blog service that you like; I especially love WordPress. If you’re new to blogging and WordPress, there are plenty of great tutorials to help you get started. If you’re new to blogging, check out this great advice for first timers.
I strongly encourage you to regularly use Twitter for this class. This is your primary way for having real-time or near real-time conversations with me and your peers. Simply tweet questions, comments, and other class-relevant content with the hashtag #ioe13. Whenever you complete a new blog entry, post a link on your twitter account with the hashtag #ioe13. If you already have a Twitter account, use it. Otherwise, creating an account is easy! And whether you’re new to Twitter or not, Alec has some great tutorials on the basic language of Twitter and how to tweet.
Throughout the course I'll be asking you to find additional online resources relating to course topics. When you find these resources, bookmark them on Delicious and tag them ioe13 and the assignment-specific tag. If you don't have a Delicious account, it's easy to join.
Some course assignments are video assignments – like your introduction video. If you don’t already have a YouTube account, grab one now. After you’ve created your account and logged in, you can create videos from your webcam with one click.
Optionally, you may want to also grab a Flickr account. This will be useful for sharing any sorts of drawings, photos, or other visuals you develop for the course. There are plenty of Flickr tutorials to get you started, too.

You can see what your peers have entered so far by visiting the Google Spreadsheet where all the form answers live.