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……. (

Group Podcast? Group Audioblog?

'See' what I'm talking about HERE.

Brief Greeting from Saigon

Phone Blogging - Test Post

Greetings to those at the Rosario EFL Congress

Rosario
Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

A world far away from mine.... (listen for more)

Update:Rosario founded in 1812; Adelaide, Australia founded in 1836 - not such a big difference. Perhaps the differences in architectural style are more the product of different cultures rather than the age of the two locations?

Hallett Cove Geological Park

Hallett Cove Geological Park
Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

Did you ever get tortured by your teacher and taken here? :)

Blogging: a luxury? Talking on the Net in a public/private space?

Educating the Net Generation

Educating the Net Generation Webinar Series

Hallett Cove

Hallett Cove
Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

Listen to the audio for my thoughts....

Free Google Vlogging (video blogging) on the Way

Read all about it.

Audioblogging - Summary of Options

A colleague asked me about all the options for audioblogging, and it's a bit fiddly to go back through the various postings and find them all so here's a summary of what I've tried.

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A long post about different avenues to audioblogging is here.

In summary, you have these choices:

1) record audio yourself and embed it in the page with html. See http://mikecogh.blogspot.com/2005/02/how-to-embed-audio-in-blog.html

2) use the free service provided by http://www.audioblogger.com/. This requires a call to a US number and your post is automatically posted in your blog.

3) use the paid service provided by http://www.audioblog.com/. It's about $8/month. They have a free 7 day trial at the moment. They provide the code and you paste it into your blog. This is the one I would choose but I had trouble with it and so I now use

4) Instant Audio. It's quite a bit more expensive (about US$20/month), but it's a really good service, and you can send audio postcards, post via pc recording or phone (they have a number in NSW), and they have those nice little buttons! They offer a $1 trial for one month. Both Audioblog and Instant Audio also have a companion videoblog service for extra cash.


Note: to use any of these you have to have a standard blog to start with (eg Blogger.com). So audioblogging is actually done within a standard blog.

Technology and Innovation

Audio applet from Instant Audio (They have a $1/month trial at the moment!)

And here is the quote from Stephen Downes that I was trying to show in the presentation this morning. Quoting Antti Oulasvirta, Human Technology, April 27, 2005 he comments:

I'm not sure this is true: "innovation, development, and evaluation of design ideas cannot be based only on the designer's intuitions but must be grounded in users' actual needs and behaviors. We need to apply social and psychological sciences to understand how technology could qualify as a positive change for the users." The reason why I express doubt is that the 'need' for an innovation often becomes knowable only after the innovation has been introduced.

Any thoughts?

Emerging Technologies Network

Emerging Technologies Network Blog
Examples referred to in today's presentation:

information on audio blogging
combining written and spoken text
interview
feedback on classes/workshops
inserting home movies(long download)
Inserting Digital Stories

Recording of Presentation

Linking Voice and Music

Obviously there are copyright concerns doing stuff like this. The background music in this message is by Keb Mo. A very rough example of what I'm talking about but you should get my drift!

Mobile Learning Object?

(Audio recorded and posted by phone from location. Photos taken at location and uploaded via flickr.com)

O'Sullivans Beach
Originally uploaded by mikecogh.

What is a 'New Practice'?

The New Practices Team:
Brad Beach
Josie Rose
Terry Taylor

New Practices Test

This was a phone blog test from the New Practices Projects induction workshop. More on the Marcus person mentioned!