{"id":60636,"date":"2022-03-17T18:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/cs4odfl\/?page_id=60636"},"modified":"2022-03-17T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:10:17","slug":"cs4odfl-social-network","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pacificopencourses.col.org\/cs4odfl\/learning-pathways\/establish-a-ple\/cs4odfl-social-network\/","title":{"rendered":"CS4ODFL social network"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This course uses “Mastodon” to provide a social learning network for course specific activities and a backchannel for our learning community. A backchannel<\/a> is a networked conversation that runs alongside the primary course conversations. You will need to know how to use the course hashtag in course-related posts: #CS4ODFL<\/b><\/p>\n

The OER Foundation<\/a> has donated use of the OERu’s<\/a> forums application software for the purpose of this course.
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Mastodon<\/a> is a federated social network with microblogging features similar to Twitter. As a federated technology, it is administered independently across many open source software servers around the world called instances<\/i> rather than a single corporate provider. The OERu instance of Mastodon is hosted at mastodon.oeru.org<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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