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Some thoughts on the >Symposium
of Reason; Learning in the 21st Century, and Will Richardson and The Why of Web 2.0
Photo of symposium posted by Mike Seyfang. (More images here .) More commentary via Alex Hayes at http://alexanderhayes.com/2008/05/02/alls-well/
Intro and Outro music: Fear of Being Too Good (Michael Coghlan)
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Keynote presentation at Access and General Education Faculty Forum at Dubbo (NSW) on May 8th. Accompanying slides at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/tools-for-re-engagement (About 40 minutes)
Presentation given at the Wireless Ready event in Nagoya on March 29th, 2008. (http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/) There is a short introduction from Michael Thomas (pictured), and some quieter spots near the end as members of the audience provide some feedback. About 45 minutes.
Accompanying slides at
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/where-is-the-m-in-interactivity-collaboration-and-feedback,
and a wiki for any and all to contribute to at http://whereisthem.wikispaces.com/
This is a conversation with John Nebauer, a librarian at the Croydon Campus of TAFE SA. John talks about the role of technology in his job as a librarian, with particular reference to social software.
John refers to
Google Reader - http://www.google.com/reader/view/
Delicious - http://del.icio.us
Cloud Tags - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
LibraryThing - http://www.librarything.com/
Twitter - http://twitter.com
About 12 mins long.
Comments for Mark and Deb at TAFE SA but may be useful for others. About 8 mins long. With reference to the 2008 Horizon Report - http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf
Snippets of conversations about teaching and technology from 4 Ph D students at Suranaree University of Technology (http://www.sut.ac.th/indexen.html) – Benz, Eric and Paul, and Henry from Guizhou University. Guizhou have been funded by the Chinese government to become a specialist technology centre. (15 mins)
About 30 mins. Talking about our 4 days together, networked learning, the concept and usefulness of FLNW, etc.
Vance Stevens and Trish Everett talking...about 10 mins. (Sorry about all the background noise - noisy place Bangkok)
Vance Stevens and John Eyles explain... (11 mins)
Presentation given at the Inclusive
eLearning Showcase in Melbourne on Dec 5th, 2007. (about 1 hr) Accompanying
slides
Presentation at the inaugural Conference on Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/professions/education/)
The audio is occasionally a little muddy as I wander around away from the recorder. The last 5 minutes is some useful discussion between audience members (including Dr Kaye Bowman)
The movie played during the presentation is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Accompanying slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc
(About 28 mins)
Presentation given at the Community Engagement Showcase in Cairns on November 6th. Topics include the Webhead community, the role of voice technologies, and other 'tools for engagement.' (Long - 1 hour)
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Reflections from an unconference session as part of the eShownTell2007 event today (Nov 8) held in Elluminate. http://networksevents.flexiblelearning.net.au/ More at http://eshowntell2007.edublogs.org/ (About 2 mins)
The image shows the topics brainstormed for discussion.
Information on ConVerge (2 mins)
This is a long one – 55 minutes. A presentation at the ESL Educators conference in Adelaide. The topic was Developing Online Community, with particular reference to the Webhead community, but it grazes over a number of related topics:
• The appeal of online community
• The nature of online relationships
• Consequences of the ‘digital footprint’
Barbara (Bee) Dieu beamed in to contribute to the session from Sao Paulo. I suspect some (Stephen Downes?) may object to my interchangeable use of the terms ‘community’ and ‘networks’, but I didn’t want to get bogged down with definitions.
It was a good session I think.
Audio level of audience participants is a bit soft at times, but if you turn up the volume you can hear them.
Accompanying slides at Slideshare
Acquiring Soft Skills using the Net (fromTerry Anderson)
Twitter and New Horizons (Sue Waters)
A few thoughts on Howard Rheingold's plenary session on Sept 27th. Addressing topics such as participatory media, the moral panic associated with web 2.0, blogging and Second Life. About 8 minutes long.
Howard Rheingold
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Just seeing if movies made with Photostory will play in Podomatic, and it seems to work. I had to convert the wmv file to mp4 first. (Done with SuperC.) About 2 mins long.
A 30 minute recording of a presentation to Tabor College that tracks the history of the online, flexible, and elearning landscape. Mention is made of Learning Management Systems, the Salmon model of emoderation, elearning 2.0 and social software, models of delivery, and our responsibilities as elearning educators.
Adelaide residents will recognize this delightful old building as the former orphanage on Goodwood Rd.
The audio accompanies this
slide presentation .
Why would I want to be part of this? And why might you like to join us? (about 3 mins - although the audio loops for some reason. Ignore the second part)
This is a follow-up podcast for the
one day Wireless Ready symposium held in Nagoya in March, 2007.
It is about 17 mins long. You can read
the text of this episode at http://newlearning.wikispaces.com/Podcast+Text, and view
the companion slides.
Thoughts stemming from a recent meeting on how to promote teaching and learning within TAN/TAFESA. (About 9 mins). Thought the context was local and specific to TAFE in South Australia, some of these ideas may well be applicable in other contexts, or indeed be already happening.
(Graphic courtesy of Jay Cross)
Seven minutes of off the cuff reflection about a 2 day event in Adelaide recently.
(this post may not be of great interest for non-TALO folks. I guess it may not be that interesting for TALO folks either! )
This post is a direct response to a screencast
posted by Leigh Blackall on how he uses RSS, Bloglines, etc Great for watching how someone uses these tools in realtime.
A few thoughts on Online Community for those with Sophie in Cyprus. About 3 minutes.
This is a short test about 30 secs.
This is a recording of a keynote address at the Third PacCALL Conference in Nanjing, China, on November 18th, entitled The Language Classroom in a Connected World. It is about one hour long and covers:
• The conference theme of Local v Global
• Notions of online presence
• The Personal Publishing Phenomenon
• Social Software/eLearning 2.0
• Connectivism
• Applying all the above in a language classroom.
The slides are available for viewing and download at http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/pd/PacCALL.htm
Short keynote address for Global
Learn Day 10 (South Pacific Region)
Some thoughts on the keynote address by Michael Christie at the recent ACEC conference, and their relevance to the happenings at the Future of Learning in a Networked World
conference (about 7 mins)
This is the audio from an online discussion jointly hosted by the EON Foundation, and the Future of Learning in a Networked Conference in Waiheke Island in New Zealand. It features Barbara Dieu, Teemu Leinonen and Alex Hayes (briefly), Moira from France, Damon from Vancouver, Tim from Napier and Ali and Amy from ? There are occasional references to the content that was on the whiteboard (the session was held in a virtual classroom courtesy of LearningTimes - learningtimes.org). About 1 hour in length.
Just over 5 mins - quick thoughts on the FLNW experience - http://flnw.wikispaces.com/
from the Future of Learning in a Networked World conference - http://flnw.wikispaces.com/
This 23 minute segment focuses on how to become a technogically competent language teacher, the role of community in professional development, blogging with year 8 students. Michael Coghlan, Barbara (Bee) Dieu, Konrad Glogowski.
Konrad and Michael (approx 8 minutes)
Konrad and yours truly - Dunedin Language Centre
About 1 hr - shorter edited excerpts follow.
A six minute reflection of the recent education.au seminar (http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/whatschanged); Audio in full at http://feeds.feedburner.com/eduauweb2
So what's changed? Technology, expectations, connections and collaboration...
Philip Adams:
Long time media commentator in Australia on politics, media, divinity and spirituality, etc! Compere of ABC’s Late Night Live
After beginning with a ritual shot at George Bush, “the silliest man to lead a country since Caligula”) Philip Adams urged us to teach in the new technology and use it to teach students how to protect themslelves from this self-same technology.
Data ≠ info ≠ knowledge ≠ wisdom
The new technology is both exhilarating and daunting, but beware technological determinism.
James: technology does matter!
Does the new publishing phemonenon give the ignorant undue influence?
James: ‘Citizen journalism’ about as much value as ‘citizen dentistry’
Traditional media reps (like Adams) are ‘gate-keepers’; he is a gatekeeper in a mediated world; in the unmediated world the content is more biased, but full of infinite promise.
“Every new technology breaks its promise.”
Self-censorhip is the most insidious of all censorships (eg when there is fear of losing job)
Censorship does not work – intelligence and a value/belief system works.
Students need to be taught the difference between “fact and foolishness”.
“We don’t send kids down the coalmines anymore; we send them into shopping malls as consumers.” – corporate paedophilia.
Media bombardment is not healthy or therapautic. Cause of ADD?
We must use the new technology to ‘vaccinate students’against the ‘toxic sludge’; it displays the best and worst (technology is amoral); we must build up their immune systems.
James Farmer: Online Community Editor editor of the Age (Melbourne), and founder of edublogs.org - http://edublogs.org/
Prefers to engage people not software.
Tech + education ≠ engagement + empowerment; principally because of the use of forum software (disengaging)
Edublogs: 16,000 blogs in the first year
Many roads lead to Rome
Good practice to write a description (2 min)
I wrote this song some years ago and thought that as I now have it in rough mp3 format I may as well podcast it! The lyrics are at http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/songs.htm#hol
A discussion of this song also available at http://dcyeh.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=5
Conversations with
Peter Whitley (CEO GippsTAFE)
Jenny Dodd (Canberra Institute of Technology)
Brian Gepp (TAFE SA)
Margaret Scott (Gordon TAFE, Geelong)
Terry Marler (Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin)
At the GippsTAFE Staff Development Day (May 26th, 2006)
http://www.gippstafe.vic.edu.au/
Terry Marler’s Blog - http://travelswithterry.blogspot.com/
Length: 37 minutes
From a discussion on the TALO list (http://groups.google.com.au/group/teachAndLearnOnline/)
Machine Bits:
1) Leigh Blackall
Anyone else noticing how bloody slow Flickr and Del.icio.us is these days? Wouldn't be anything to do with those yahoos and their servers would it? Isn't this all our local IT guys need to say, "see, we told you so! You can't rely on Google and Yahoo, you should rely on me, Sam and our Microsoft servers instead!"
2) Peter Allen
Actually this is an issue that needs addressing.
If we build our "castles in the air" using web 2.0 resources - we have no control over the reliability or availability of those tools or teaching resources. If we use Ning to build some amazing mash-up that we want to use again and again. What do we do when Ning goes "bottom up"?
- or flickr disappears or gets replaced by a version that requires payment?
I like the idea of a distributing learning across a number of services available across the 'net - but it has its risks. - I think it also assumes a high level of competence from your students.
Webhosting sites eg hostrocket give you the ability to build a site that can supply your students the essential stuff (Moodle, payment gateway, blogs, wikis ) and then you could link out to other services. but you would need to have a backup plan in case your external resources become unavailable.
You could offer your students a range of choices on how a particular exercise in course might be done, this would perhaps allow you to cater for different learning styles , and, avoid a single-point-of-failure in your online./ blended course.
3) James Neill
I think its equally fair to ask what happens when school Ding or institution Zing goes belly up - where do the resources end up then? I would also say that in my experience overall downtime for learning institution-managed resources is greater than for externally hosted content - a broad claim and obviously there's exceptions, but I know which basket I prefer to put my eggs in and that's not under lock & key by a single institution. By making sure learning content is robot-crawled, Google cache at least gives pretty good access to text/image pages even when the host server is down.
