Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Friday, April 14, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006
Monday, March 06, 2006
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
The Uraidla Show
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Gigablog?
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
Friday, January 20, 2006
Thursday, January 12, 2006
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
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Monday, January 09, 2006
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Origins of Social Software
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
eLearning - an Interview
* 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!
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Thank you
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Friday, November 25, 2005
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Thursday, November 17, 2005
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.
Monday, November 14, 2005
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Monday, November 07, 2005
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?
Friday, November 04, 2005
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Friday, October 21, 2005
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 :)
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Bee on Blogs
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Thursday, September 22, 2005
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.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Friday, September 09, 2005
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.......
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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.......
Friday, September 02, 2005
The Real Deal
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Michael's House
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Tips re Using Headings
Wonder how fonts, colours etc appear in blogger…..
This is Word Calling Blogger, Word Calling Blogger
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Friday, July 08, 2005
Greetings to those at the Rosario EFL Congress
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?
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Monday, May 02, 2005
Audioblogging - Summary of Options
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.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
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
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Linking Voice and Music
Mobile Learning Object?
Monday, April 25, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
New Practices Test
This was a phone blog test from the New Practices Projects induction workshop. More on the Marcus person mentioned!
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