Good to see another ed technologist in Oz, even if he’s up in the nice warm end rather than the drab south :O) Via Stephen, Scott Aldred keeps the blog e-learning and looks like someone who’s keen to blog in a reflective, considered and detailed way, just like me ;o) Having a quick look through …
Author Archives: James
Advice
Despite the fact that I fully believe that Bush is the most dangerous person alive at this time and I’ll breath a sigh of relief if Kerry wins next month, I’m just guessing that my inkling that it’s not really appropriate to suggest to people in the US how to vote when I’m a Pom …
BALLS
Via Josie among others comes an new TESOL article, Jason Ward’s Blog Assisted Language Learning (BALL): Push button publishing for the pupils (.pdf) now that could have been BALL for Students or BALL Systems, no? It’s actually a very good article which gets stuck in straight away with possible benefits of blogging for composition including …
What’s love got to do with it?
Tom pulls together a couple of decent Kairos posts that on the more negative side of the spectrum in the wide-world-o-weblogs-n-wikis: Falling out of love & Wikis. The blogging article is just as interesting for it’s comments as the post itself so go and have a look. Personally I’m kind of in agreement with Tom …
S5
Now… this S5 alternative-to-powerpoint lightweight-CSS-based presentation tool looks very very nice indeed, now I wonder if you can stream audio with it not too difficultly… hmmmmmm….
elearnspace
It’s a pain having elearnspace at the top of my bloglines subscription stuff (don’t know why… just seems to have gotten there) as I’m only one blog into 147 education focussed posts and I already have two things I wanna read / have a look at: Google Desktop Search & Tracing the Evolution of Social …
‘Blog It’ Buttons
This is probably just me but the thing I’ve probably dragged to my taskbar the most times to have then never used is the ‘blog it’ button, as demonstrated in one of it’s many forms by Charlie at Cyberdash. Perhaps it’s because all of my links seem to come through RSS (when I have my …
.mp3 here
Thanks to Mira who suggested CDex for ripping the .mp3 from the Audacity .wav :o) So here’s a test .mp3 file, me testing podcasting and talking about a possible use [link removed for anonymity purposes]. And just for luck I’ll try and see if we get some auto enclosure tags too: Might have worked… still …
Podcasting
Am trying to podcast, desperately trying! I get the principle: you record .mp3 file, blog it and then other people can aggregate it. But… …Audacity has, for some unknown-to-me reason stopped being able to export .mp3s. I’ve tried everything but it just ‘aint a go :o( [does anyone know any other decent open source .mp3 …
Robodemo Stuff
[I would’ve posted this as a comment to Michael’s piece if the comment login procedures didn’t make me groan so ;o)] Interesting view on Robodemo over at e-Literate, apparently it’s absolutely pants when it comes to interactivity which doesn’t surprise me as when we’ve tried to do ‘fancy’ things such as mouse movements, scrolling, full …