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30 April 2005
Video on Websites and Blogs
Topic: vblogging
Windows Movie Maker makes integrating video and sound into websites and blogs amazingly easy. With Movie Maker, you can transform and compress your digital camera videos into 'movies' for uploading to your website or blog. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Using third-party software you can even take movies you've made and turn them into DVDs. You can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself.
Go to MightyCoach.com for free online tutorials and videos on using Movie Maker.
Demonstration exerciseHere is a demo (compressed approx. 30x's from the original video) of a vblogging exercise used in the Conceptual Skills class.

Posted by tonywh2 at 3:07 PM NZT
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28 April 2005
Working with Audio
Topic: All subjects
If you are integrating audio in your multimedia projects (and I hope you are), check out this site " Hi! I'm a single app that bravely handles all your audio needs - I'm easy to use, but with gobs of advanced features ready to be discovered! I can play your Audio CDs, your MP3s, and your streaming network audio, I can encode, edit, mix, sort and manage, visualize and hypnotize. And now that I'm 3, I can broadcast, record, crossfade, and even hang with your iPod. Go on, download me!"

Posted by tonywh2 at 8:42 PM NZT
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27 April 2005
Try this new search engine.
Topic: All subjects
Clusty,™ is a new internet search engine from Vivisimo. It provides a new method of presenting results. Using the Vivisimo Clustering Engine,™ it automatically clusters results into categories that are intelligently selected from the words and phrases contained in the search results themselves. These categories strive for human-level accuracy and offer hierarchical drill-down capability in a familiar and intuitive folders-style interface. There are no more long, mind-numbing lists to scroll through. It's worth a try...give it a go.

Posted by tonywh2 at 9:30 PM NZT
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13 April 2005
Web Standards and Quality Assurance
Topic: Quality Assurance
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) , along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies are known as “web standards”. Quality Assurance students should visit WASP to follow the development of standards that can contribute to the quality assurance of website development.

Posted by tonywh2 at 8:08 PM NZT
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12 April 2005
Instructional Design Planning
Topic: Instructional Design
ID Project ManagementListen to this MP3 file and find out why I regard this website as an essential resource for Instructional Design students. The emphasis is on project management and the 10 step model provides an excellent checklist for all instructional design projects.

Posted by tonywh2 at 9:24 AM NZT
Updated: 12 April 2005 9:29 AM NZT
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10 April 2005
The Podcast Network
Topic: Podcasting
Here is a great Australian Internet initiative that provides access to free and legal mp3 Podcasts in areas that include technology, music (rock and jazz), sport, etc. Check it out and link to the RSS feeds for regular updates in your areas of interest.

Posted by tonywh2 at 1:46 PM NZT
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3 April 2005
More About Podcasting
Topic: Podcasting
Podcasting refers to the technology used to pull digital audio files from Web sites down to computers and devices such as MP3 players. Podcast is derived from the name of the iPod MP3 player from Apple, although you don't need an iPod to partake in podcasts.

Podcasting is a significant departure from traditional broadcasting because it removes the time requirement; you can listen to a podcast radio program or interview any time.

Think what audio books on tape did for the road warrior?turning our cars and airplane seats into mobile TAFE's. Podcasting has the same capacity to change the way we learn and take in new information.

Posted by tonywh2 at 3:56 PM NZT
Updated: 18 April 2005 12:25 PM NZT
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30 March 2005
How to Podcast
Topic: Podcasting
PODcasting will shift much of our time away from an old medium where we wait for what we might want to hear to a new medium where we choose what we want to hear, when we want to hear it, and how we want to give everybody else the option to listen to it as well. This tutorial from Engadget covers how to get Podcasts and make your own for both Mac and PC....Go for it.

Posted by tonywh2 at 12:38 PM EADT
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Web Based Project Management
Topic: Project Management
Here is an excellent web based tool for managing projects. The free version allows you to manage one project at a time. Here are some the tool's features:
> Easy setup — 10 seconds to a new project
> Blog simplicity — Posting project updates couldn't be easier
> Simple scheduling — What's due, when it's due, who's responsible
> To-do lists — Make sure all the little things get done
> Email notifications — You'll know when there's something new

Posted by tonywh2 at 11:58 AM EADT
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28 March 2005
Wikis, Blogs and Websites
Topic: blogs
JotSpot makes Web applications simple to build by combining wikis ? websites that can be edited by anyone, without knowing HTML ? and Web application building in an easy-to-use hosted service.Besides being a hosted service, other cool features include look and feel customization through CSS and the ability to create Jot apps like forums, knowledge bases, project planners, blogs, etc.

Posted by tonywh2 at 6:43 PM EADT
Updated: 12 April 2005 9:37 AM NZT
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25 March 2005
Multiple Choice Question Code
Topic: Instructional Design
Copy and paste the Javascript from this document to create interactive multiple choice questions in your projects.
This example demonstrates the use of form objects and JavaScript to implement a simple question that is marked without the use of CGI, in other words, handled by the client side browser. This example works with any browser that supports JavaScript, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. An advantage of implementing questions this way is that a server and Internet connection is not required. The HTML pages are also capable of being placed on CD-ROM/DVD.

Posted by tonywh2 at 1:26 PM EADT
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18 March 2005
Designing Blogs
Topic: Website design
If you are serious about web design you have to be serious about blog design. Here are the winners of the '2005 Business Blogging Awards'. Study the designs AND study the range of businesses using blogs...it really is a huge trend in online sales and marketing. An increasing number of websites are being supported by 'companion blogs'. Create a blog and use it to market your design skills, knowledge of developments and trends in your area of future employment, completed TAFE projects, interests, recommended articles, photos of trips,etc.

Posted by tonywh2 at 6:45 PM EADT
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12 March 2005
Vblogging Exercise
The conceptual skills logo. Click on the logo to view the designer's outline of its concept and post any changes you may require to this messages's comments section.

Posted by tonywh2 at 8:22 PM EADT
Updated: 12 March 2005 8:42 PM EADT
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26 February 2005
Web Page Design
Topic: General
Web Page Design for Designers. This great site has articles, links, references and editorials that will assist you with your web design projects.

Posted by tonywh2 at 7:43 AM EADT
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23 February 2005
How To Build A Website And Stay Sane
Topic: General
Here is a free book you can download (pdf file 4.1 mb.) It is "a plain-talking survival guide for business owners and operators who want to find a good web developer and not get ripped off. It explains the strategies and processes employed by many companies running very successful websites. It teaches you which types of developers will promise you the world on a plate for $1.50, and how to find one that will actually deliver a good job at the end of the day. It shows you how to balance short versus long term costs, how to streamline maintenance and updates, and how to make informed decisions about issues that arise as you and your developer work through the process of creating or redesigning your website."

Posted by tonywh2 at 8:22 AM EADT
Updated: 23 February 2005 8:25 AM EADT
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21 February 2005
Learn about RSS
Topic: All subjects
If you require more information about RSS feeds and Aggregators then try this tutorial from CNET. It includes a video and a review of aggregators. If your interested in the latest developments in technology then CNET is a great website to add to your aggregator.

Posted by tonywh2 at 7:43 PM EADT
Updated: 21 February 2005 7:45 PM EADT
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12 February 2005
Create an RSS Aggregator, Now!
Topic: All subjects
Anyone learning in the information age, particularly in the fields of digital media and web design, need to continually access the world's primary information source, the Internet. Increasingly, websites and blogs include XML code, usually referred to as a "feed" (as in "news feed"), that makes it possible for learners to "subscribe" to the content that is created on these websites and blogs so they no longer have to visit these sources directly to get information. As is true with traditional syndication, the content comes to you instead of you going to get it, hence "Real Simple Syndication (RSS)." The syndication is achieved using a news feed collector know as an "aggregator". The aggregator checks the sites you subscribe to, usually every hour, and it collects all the new content into a folder. The feed your aggregator checks is virus free, and you know that everything in your aggregator is something you want to read because you subscribed to it. No ads, no spam, just new content from the sources you specify. You can scan the headlines, read the entire post, click through to the actual website or blog, and file the information away for later retrieval.
Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install -- simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device. And it's FREE!
If your serious about learning in the information age identify your Internet information sources and implement an RSS aggregator now.

Posted by tonywh2 at 12:00 PM EADT
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9 February 2005
Technology Inventions That Changed Our World
Topic: General

The Internet tops a CNN list of 25 inventions that have changed the world in the last 25 years. What do you think were the others? Where did laptop computers and cell phones rank? Read this article to find out. Do you agree with the rankings?

Posted by tonywh2 at 9:22 PM EADT
Updated: 9 February 2005 9:25 PM EADT
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30 January 2005
Free Photo Management System
Topic: General
FLICKR is a free online photo management system. Upload your photos and use FLICKR to create public and private sets of photos available for viewing via your FLICKR website. Consider using FLICKR to showcase the design aspects of your projects.

Posted by tonywh2 at 9:26 AM EADT
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27 January 2005
Free Web Based Instruction
Topic: General
This is almost too good to be true. Free, high quality,web courses from the SOFIA (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) initiative. Resources you may be interested in include: Introduction to Java Programming - Webpage Authoring - Introduction to Macromedia Flash - Creative Typography. There are four other courses so far, watch for more.

Posted by tonywh2 at 11:48 AM EADT
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