Konrad G at Language Centre in Dunedin

First Church Garden

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Yep - Bee and I are both in New Zealand for the 'unconference'.

We spent some time this afternoon at language school talling about blogs, community, role of the teacher, personal publishing, etc

Lovely to be here together!

Bee in Dunedin

The First Day in Dunedin

Some thoughts on this before we begin:

Broome

A sample Digital Story

Blog Cheese and Value of Video

Just when you think that you can have everything in the one place like here at Blogger you find something else....Apparently it's been around for a while but I only found it yesterday....Blog Cheese is a video blog. See my beginnnings over here.

Embedding Podomatic

This is very neat! Now I no longer need to refer people over to my Podomatic (podcast) site. It can all happen here in the one space. Bravo Podomatic and Blogger!

Day of the Longtail

I seem to be on a roll here - need to be able to find these videos again in hurry so if I put 'em here on my blog I know where they are. This one on DISINTERMEDIATION (Thanks for the tip Alex.)

Global Warming Comic

This is a ripper - a very funny take on a very serious topic.

Office Politics

Demo post from SA LearnScope Day

Broome Pic

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Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

Heather, Peter and Anja

jurassic

jurassic
Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

Demo

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!