Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Getting Over It

If you’ve read my earlier post Talking the Talk you’ll know how I feel about hearing my recorded voice.  Yesterday the chance arose to take another step up the ladder and produce a video.
@catspyjamasnz asked for people to contribute to her project What My PLN Means to Me and to add a video to the [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Minority Report 2

Be warned- this is  very video heavy post
A Saturday morning tweet by @betchaboy-

prompted me to refresh my memory…
I’ve blogged about this Oblong interface before, but I’d forgotten how slick it really was (apart from the naff gloves).

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Here it is being used to edit video/movie elements together.

oblong’s tamper system [...]

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Sounds Good!

Earlier this week I left a comment (which I later turned into a blogpost) on this post by @wmchamberlain and was invited, via Twitter, to be a contributor at “At the Teacher’s Desk”   As I’d already identified audio and video of myself as a personal dislike I decided that the first step in “walking the [...]

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

EtherPad

I just had a most amazing collaborative experience.  @Mrs_Banjer tweeted on Twitter that she was in an etherpad opened by @mbarrow and would anyone like to come and try it out.  I’ve played with etherpad briefly, but not like we did tonight.
Each contributor is allocated a particular colour to help identify their additions and edits (there are [...]

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Sweet Tweets

I got a new follower on Twitter today and, as usual, checked out their profile to see if I wanted to follow them back.  That led me to a blog post about Twitter and how effective it has been as a PLN and PD tool for @kgustin.
I’ve been meaning to write about Twitter for a [...]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Opera Mini + m.slandr.net

I’ve been on holiday for a week – so that was no internet for me unless I paid $$$ for a 15 minute session.  Or was it?

It wasn’t at all.  I have Opera Mini on my phone and most of the web, e-mails, social networking and news that I access on my laptop were there [...]

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Tarpipe

I’ve just started playing with Tarpipe.  It lets you upload items to several targets/sites in one go.  In about ten minutes I managed to configure it so that I could send a photo to Flickr, tweet a corresponding url to Twitter, a entry to Plurk and send the same photo to Evernote Web.  You can see [...]