Janine, John, and I (@allistelling) would like to engage THATCampers in a play session — part Twitter game, part investigation of the Twitter hashtag aggregator Nurph. After a brief description of #TvsZ, the game that Janine and I am admin’ing this weekend, we’d like to play the game with everyone in the room. #TvsZ is part Twitter-tag, part apocalyptic narrative construction; it’s designed to teach digital literacy and multimodal composition. We’re going to adapt the rules for a short game and play for about 20 minutes (maybe the game will extend beyond the session?). Afterwards, John will be showing how Nurph can be used to aggregate hashtagged tweets for display and real-time rendering. This session would be a good introduction to Twitter, but also fun for folks who use Twitter often in class and want to see it used in a new way. Have a Twitter account ready for play. Our fourth Internet-wide game of #TvsZ begins this Friday and runs until Monday.
