The Australian

The Australian
Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

The average Australian relaxing on an average day in the average Australian back yard :)

Broome at Sunset

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Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

Just ensuring that Flickr still talks to Blogger....I haven't tried this for a while. There is really an astounding number of ways to get content into your blog - directly via Blogger, via phone, via email, via Word, via Google Videos and YouTube....

anyway...this is one of the many beautiful classic images of a Broome sunset. The boat is just there for tourists - it's a fake lugger that takes you out for a pearling demo and a few drinks, but it looks really inviting as you fly in to Broome, and gets the digicams clicking if you're on the beach watching the daylight fade.

To Blog or Pod? Blog or Pod? Blog or Pod.....

...this time I decided to pod(cast). Go over here for some thoughts on a recent seminar where Philip Adams and James Farmer were two of the speakers.

Blogging Movies in YouTube

Me on August 2nd

Sorry about the poor audio quality. Just seeing how YouTube links to Blogger.

Test from ATP

What Old People Do For Fun...

Just trying out the post to blog feature from Google Video.....looks very impressive.

LECTURER DROPS LECTURES FOR PODCASTS

From: berquist <berquist@PA.NET>

LECTURER DROPS LECTURES FOR PODCASTS
A lecturer in microbiology at Bradford University in the United Kingdom
has said he will eliminate traditional lectures from his biochemistry
course and replace them with podcasts. Students in Bill Ashraf's class
will review the podcasts on their own time. They will submit questions
to Ashraf through text messages, and he will respond to those inquiries
on his blog. In addition, students needing to meet with Ashraf will be
able to check his schedule online and make appointments with the
professor through the Web. "Some lecture classes have 250 students,"
said Ashraf, "so I question the effectiveness of a didactic lecture for
an hour." He said the new format will be especially beneficial for
distance and part-time students and those with less flexible schedules.
BBC, 26 May 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/5013194.stm

Comment from Workshop

TELLS Conference Presentation - Creating Online Presence

Full details of content, references, and recording.
Audio already in podcast format (thanks Stephan!)

Storing Media Elsewhere

The audio above was phoned in.
This audio is stored over on Podomatic.
This photo of a beach in Portugal is stored on Flickr.
This movie (about Audacity) is stored at YouTube.*

So I can use a blog to point to media stored elsewhere on free sites. Wondering where to put large files on the web is no longer a problem. (I could also have just inserted the photo here in Blogger.)

* But check this re YouTube!

And now to test Word

And now to test Word to Blogger……

Test

Just a little test to check if this email to Blogger thing still works.....

Real Students, Real People, and the Benefits of Technology

Check Terry Marler's Blog

Message for VALBEC Participants

VALBEC Conference

Loss and Change

From this

to this:

Another sadder story of loss and change.

Another Phone Blog Test - Proof for Jason!

Message for Participants of Teresa's Session at the APPI Conference

This message posted by phone to Audioblogger.

Will Blogger Last Forever?

Listen HERE

Luc Luya Waye

And check this out - Luc's first tribute! Look and listen HERE.

Are 'They' Too Wired?

Listening to Podcasts

Calling Audioblogger.....

Marc Prensky in Adelaide

Wander over to my podcast site for the good oil on this :)

The Uraidla Show

There's yet another neat new blogging tool to play with - Bubbleshare! It allows narrating a sound track over a series of photos to produce shows like this. (You create your slideshow and Bubbleshare gives you the code to paste into your blog. Easy!)

This album is powered by
BubbleShare - Add to my blog

Message for Jyothi

The Last 24 Hours

BTW - check out a nifty new voice email tool. Springdoo

Gigablog?

Mark (the pup), Mike, and Dave from Old Dogs Can.
Michael in Song


Who's Mark Keough?
What do I sound like?
Where do Michael Coghlan and Old Dogs Can play?
Seven Stars Hotel
First Friday every month
187 Angas St City
7 - 11 pm

Text to Audio Files - use in podcasting

More cross referencing I'm afraid. Audio is over HERE :)

Learncasting, etc

Thoughts generated by a conversation with Allan Carrington. See Allan's great slides where he introduces the concept of Learncasting, and lists the value of using audio as part of instructional content.
Scholar360 is the new LMS referred to that attempts to incorporate a social software approach.
Image above courtesy of www.castaways-resort.net/index2.htm

Exploiting Technology in Language Classes

Go here for an excellent post by Aiden Yeh on how you can use media rich technologies in language classes.

Where to Post???

My Podcasting site at Podomatic

Moving Demented Parents out of their Home

And check out Podomatic

Origins of Social Software

I imagine this blog is going to get blogged a thousand times but I just read this account of where it all came from. Origins deep in the past - 1940's even! The term 'social software' first used by Clay Shirky in 2002.

eLearning - an Interview

David Day has just posted an interview with me recorded earlier this year about

* What I was doing in 2005
* My journey through elearning
* The Webheads
* Vance Stevens
* David Winet and EFI
* Jonathan Finkelstein and LearningTimes
* Communities of Practice
* Moving f2f teachers online
* mature age teachers and elearning
* liaising with IT support staff

David had an individual LearnScope project for 2005 looking at the "very complex process of moving a VET practitioner from the traditional classroom delivery environment to becoming an online facilitator" and has published the fruits of his research on this engaging and comprehensive website.

Thanks for posting this David. (41 minutes and not a fast download) And it took my mind off what's happening in Sydney. I can't help feeling Australia has changed this week......

PS You can also listen to more than 20 interviews with other Australian elearning leaders!

Thank you

It was a breeze, Michael...

(This photo of the Chinese Gardens in Sydney is courtesy of Ken Gooding who was also looking for an oasis of serenity.)

eLearning in 2005 - Repost

eLearning in 2005

Is this message decipherable? It isn't over my current 26.4 connection......

Audioblogging

Marie W at Cool Connections

Camera Blogging

Leave Me on the Beach

I'm thinking I might use this post as a spoken intro to a guide about audioblogging. Fit the bill? Oh yes - it was posted from the spot where I took the pic :)
PS. Leave Me on the Beach has been a favourite theme of mine over the years.

Another Side of Life

TEXT CAN BE ADDED AFTER THE CODE

For Jon Baggaley

ODLAA Conference

Social Software in Action

Audioblog v Podcast?

See these examples of podcasts that Graham Stanley is using with young learners in Spain:
1) http://bylpodcasts.blogspot.com/
2) http://mylcpodcasts.blogspot.com/

When Graham writes:

"At the other place I work (teaching students of Tourism), I've asked the
learners for audio reports as part of their assessment on a short course on
theme tourism. The first group are just finishing these, and I'll be
uploading them to the site from tomorrow.

Here, the idea is for the students to produce a short radio-type report (as
a podcast) for a general audience. Their reports are to be made available to
anyone on the Internet who may be interested in listening , and I'm also
going to encourage the other students to listen to them."

This is similar to what others are calling audioblogging. What is it that makes one podcasting or audioblogging? Is it
* the intention (engage, instruct, invite comment)?
* the target audience?
* the software used?

MORE:

See http://courses.worldbridges.com/dyg_usb/

Dafne Gonzalez and Lee Baber also shared what they were doing with their classes on the webheads discussion list. Let me take two examples:

1) Lee: "I am going to launch an audioblog.. one spokesperson per class.. for students to respond to the days lessons with questions, ideas, suggestions to other
students"

2) Dafne: "Students summarize texts and record their summaries"

Lee uses the term audioblogging. Daf refers to activity number 2 above as podcasts. But in type, these two activities are essentially the same. Students are summarising and reporting in audio. So is podcasting and audioblogging the same thing? A minor point I realise - I often want to run away and do something more interesting when people start talking definitions but in this case I'm curious - is there a difference between podcasting and audioblogging?

Linda Interviews Coral

Sylvia Interviews Sara

Coral Interviews Linda

Georgina Interviews Li Ting

Coral

Georgina and Li Ting

Sara

Linda

Deadly Mob Intro

Checking in from the Alice

Michael and Georgina

Day-O!

I've always wanted to do this!

Using the Phone to Blog - Example from Denmark

Chrissan shares her first post.

Damn that Rubbish Truck

This post is actually in the wrong blog! Go over to the New Practices Blog to hear the context of this message :)

Live from the Health Care Conference

Just Checking....

A Salute to the Boomers!

Message for Education in Health Care Conference

Communication Axis?

New Practices Blog
Communication Axis
AMEP Conference Presentation

How to Begin?

Thoughts on how to begin Friday's presentation:

Bee on Blogs

Barbara Dieu (Bee) from Brazil offers a few thoughts on Blogging for delegates of the AMEP Conference in Sydney.

Word Post (recheck)

And this is a post from Word. Again – just checking.

Another Email to Blog Test

Just checking to see if this still works...why wouldn't it?

- Michael.

What makes you reflect?

It seems blogger is just getting better and better. I can now upload photos directly into Blogger without having to use a third party like flickr.com Now let's see if I can add an audio bit.....

Check New Practices Blog for more musings on Reflection and Blogging.

Networked Learning Session

Archive available at LearningTimes Australia

Blog Tones

In response to Brad's post in New Practices Blog.

Reflections on Virtual Classroom Sessions

Elluminate = Elluminate virtual classroom

MMS'ing from Phone

OK. In the previous post I sent an MMS (multimedia message service)
message from my mobile to the email account for my blog and it
appeared. Along with a nice message from Telstra (the carrier) saying
they are responsible for putting the message there, not me. Thanks
Telstra. Now shall we sell you?

Also tried to MMS an image through but that didn't work. If I lived
in the US it would. Go to
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1131 for more info, and
to see some examples of how folks use this MMS to blog feature.

A'blogging we will go, A'blogging we will go.......

Message brought to you by Telstra MMS

This message was sent from +61417899912 This MMS message was powered by Telstra. Sharing picture and video messages is easy with Telstra's Picture and Video Messaging (MMS) service. To find out more, visit www.telstra.com/info/mms.

Text from phone 2 blog....

Blogging from Email

There seem to be so many ways to blog! Via Blogger, phone, Word, and now I'm sending this one via email.......

The Real Deal

Phoned, recorded, and posted this message for the LEARN network during my presentation on Emerging Tedchnologies. This was the first time I've tried this during a presentation and God bless Blogger - it worked! Meanwhile the folks in New Orleans struggle to stay alive....Fats Domino was found alive. It seems the wealthy got out - they had boats, or had the money to pay for one, and as nice as Fats may be he's probably a wealthy man. And he deserves to be. "I'm walkin' to New Orleans", "I found my thrill" etc.

Sample for Learn Meeting

Michael's House

Michael's House
Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

If you haven't discovered Google Earth yet and wiled away precious hours having fun with it I recommend you do so! It's a collection of aerial photographs of the entire planet. Some countries have better photos than others, and the photos of Australia are good enough to actually find your own house. This is what my house looks like from above!

Tips re Using Headings

Tip – when using this tool don’t worry about using a heading in Word because when you publish you have to enter a heading in the title field anyway. So if you do use a heading in Word, delete it before you publish or you will end up with two headings on your blog.

Wonder how fonts, colours etc appear in blogger…..

Second Post

I can now post directly from Word to my blog!!!!!

This is Word Calling Blogger, Word Calling Blogger

This is a trial post using the new blog in Word feature. I am writing this in Word and am about to hit the publish button to see if I can experience yet another layer of blogging magic! Let’s see……. (