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

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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

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