TECH2002 Lecture Week 19

This week's live online blog lecture will begin at 2pm Friday 6th February.

The lecture will look at some of the key issues in the essay assignment about Web 2.0 and new media.

TECH2002 Lecture Week 18

This week's live online lecture is on digital media and looks at 'converging market themes' highlighted in Ofcom communications reports. How are communication services being taken up in the UK and elsewhere? How are we bringing digital technology in to our lives, 'becoming digital'?

TECH2002 Lecture Week 17

This live lecture will begin at 2pm Friday 23rd January 2009 and will focus on the key words of collaboration and participation of the interaction of Web 2.0, new media and social media

Reflecting on Using Cover It Live for Live Lectures

I haven't had much time to think about live blogging as a tool for presenting information. That might take some time. When will it be best to use text, image, audio, video and so on?

But i do like the instant recording and replay functions of live bloging and the ease with which guests can take part through polls and instant messaging. This really does encourage participation and engagement with the lecture content. I have quite enjoyed using this format and I wonder how participation can be increased even further. Are there any other tools that could be run alongside the live blog or ways of allowing the audience to contribute more content? For me it involved quite a lot of preparation in terms of writing the lecture and putting it into Cover It Live mode, but so far I am encouraged by the results


What do you think?

TECH2002 Lecture Week 11

This lecture finishes a series of three lectures on new media values and experiences by looking at some of the latest research on 'digital youth'.

TECH2002 Lecture Week 10

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?