Slideshare Slidecast Lectures Weeks 6-8

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These are the recorded lectures that I have made as Slideshare slidecasts. I have found this way of making online lectures more satisfying than using Articulate (see my earlier blog post here). I used an Edirol R-09 audio recorder like a dictation machine without a microphone. It felt much more natural than recording the voiceover for one slide at a time. I recorded the lecture where I could in one go, did a bit of editing in Audition and then uploaded the audio to the Internet Archive and the PowerPoint slides to Slideshare in the normal way. You then have to synchronize the audio to each slide which is very easy to do. This create's a number of formats - you have the audio as a podcast, the slides as a slidecast and the slides available to download. The Slideshare service works very well.

Which format do you prefer - Articulate or Slideshare sharecast?

What I haven't addressed is whether or not this is the best way of transferring knowledge - to simply make a recorded lecture. What I think I might have to do is re-think how to communicate the lecture content that best makes use of online communication media and the way that students would like to engage with this content - what do you think?

TECH2002 Lecture Week 9

TECH2002 Lab Week 9: Social Networks

What is the purpose of a social network?

What kind of experience is created by being socially networked through Web 2.0?

You could investigate what social networks are by joining them or creating your own.

You can use social networks as part of your participation project to connect to others and share experiences and find out about other people who might share the same interests as yourself.

You are probably a member of a social network such as Facebook, MySpace or Bebo because they are among the most widely used Web 2.0 sites as part of social media. However, if there is a shared personal interest there is a possibility that that there will be a dedicated social network for it, and if there is no existing social network that satisfies, then there are services that allow you to create your own social network.

Examples of special interest websites

Music

Last.fm ‘The Social Music Revolution'

Blip.fm ‘Create your own music station’

MOG.com ‘WHERE BAD MUSIC COMES TO DIE’

TheSixtyOne.com ‘ a community for people who love new music’

Football

Footbo.com ‘a social network for football lovers worldwide’

Media

Imeem.com ‘a social network that enables users to discover, interact and express themselves with media’

Gaming

Come2Play.com ‘social gaming networks’

Food

Foodari.com ‘recipe search, share and store’

Reading

LibraryThing.com

Shelfari.com ‘social network for people who love books’

Web services that allow you to create your own social network

Ning.com ‘create your own social network for anything’

SocialGo.com ‘social network maker’

WackWall.com ‘how many clicks does it take to build a cool social network?’

Further research links

http://c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/Tools/social.html
http://www.go2web20.net/Gotoweb20 tag search: ‘social’ or ‘network’

Cover It Live Experiment 3

Another go at using the live blogging tool Cover It Live this time with the Friday 3-4 group - it's the end of the week folks.

Using Cover It Live Experiment 2

A second go at using Cover It Live for live blogging, this time with the Tuesday 4-5 group.

Using Scrapblog

Scrapblog is a multimedia scrapbook tool that through any easy to use interface allows you to create pages of text, images, videos and graphics and so on as a slideshow with music. The scrapblogs can then be shared via the website. I used the technology to hold the information for the lab in week 8. I think it has some teething problems and it seems to being used as multimedia family photo albums to be shared online. It is a good example of the DIY media of Web 2.0 where people make their own content and share it with others - but who on earth is going to do this regularly and for what purpose. You might find it useful for recording or reflecting on your participation projects.

Using Cover It Live Experiment 1

If you click on the 'Click Here' link below it will take you to a live blog recording made in the 9-10 Tuesday lab during week 8. This was done using a site called Cover It Live. My first impression is that this technology looks promising. It can be used as a group tool to turn instant messaging into a recorded blog with a lot of hypermedia linking and interactive stuff such as polls. If you are working in a group you could use it to produce a group blog or to record events that are unfolding at the same time as you blog them.

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