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Students in the Conceptual Skills and Instructional Design classes have been creating innovative podcasts. If you've ever wanted to speak directly to your audience, here's your chance. While blogs give anyone with something to say a means to publish their views on the Web, podcasting give you a chance to create and post your own radio broadcasts.
Here are two great blogs that will enable you to create a blog that will help you (maybe) to become famous and make heaps of money. At the same time you will gain lots of experience that you can apply to many of your TAFE projects. Designer Blogs is a place to be inspired by others' blogs, learn tips and find resources to improve your blog's design. Problogger helps bloggers make lots of money.
Here are two WWW sources of free, royalty free MP3 music suitable for background to your Podcasts and Video Blogs.
Inspired by science fiction novels like Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash," which told of a sophisticated online virtual world called the "Metaverse," virtual world developers want to make digital environments as complicated and rich as the real world. Will these worlds be the TAFE classrooms of the future?Experience the wonders of EverQuest II. Play the tutorial and explore the Isle of Refuge up to experience level 6. Discover the legendary action, countless hours of content and beauty of this massive multiplayer virtual world. This easy-to-access 7 day trial requires no credit card or subscription.
This is a cell phone application that promotes the sharing of knowledge. It allows you to send and receive encyclopedia-type inquiries between specific, pre-defined groups of users, through Text messaging. You can register here on this site and start building quick-reference Cellphedia-type encyclopedia entries, by asking other users and answering other users' questions where-ever cell phone service is available.
This article from the BBC suggests new methods for searching the Web. Blinkx, Copernic, and Enfish are free software products that lurk in the background while you work on your PC and dynamically suggests links to web pages, locally-held documents and online news by working out what you are really interested in. Great for TAFE students doing research for projects.
You can ride the crest of the current revolution in brain research and learn easier, faster, better, and more enjoyably! The new scientific understanding of our most vital organ can help you improve everything about your learning -- from choosing your best times and places to learn, to setting grander goals for how much you grow. Based on the work of the world’s leading brain researchers over the past twenty years, here are the top five ways to enhance your learning..
Here’s a cool site with many Macromedia (Adobe?) Flash-based experiments in memory, perception, attention, etc. Try them out, it’s great fun!
Backpack is a free web based and hosted personal information manager that will benefit students. Launched today, Backpack will let you "plan trips, keep track of projects and assignments, plan projects, collaborate on a new ideas, keep track of things you're considering buying, gather information for a research project, keep a list of gift ideas for friends and teachers, brainstorm ideas, and plenty more..."
If you are interested in technology trends and developments I recommend that you subscribe (IT's FREE) to the Harrow Technology Report. In this issue there is an interesting article on battery technology. Almost every one of us has at least one (and often too many) electronic devices that are powered by batteries. If they're recent and rechargeable, they're likely powered by lithium ion batteries. Toshiba promises to introduce super charge batteries using "nano electrodes" in 2006 that can be fully charged in 10 minutes.
Here is an excellent tutorial on "Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)". The tutorial will show you how to sign up and subscribe to blogs with Bloglines.It includes how to subscribe to RSS feeds and Podcasts. Lots of people have started doing regular audio programming or Podcasts on the web. Bloglines lets you subscribe to these Podcasts (think of Podcasts as audio blogs).
Google alerts is an excellent technology for keeping youself informed of current updates on the WWW in your subject areas and areas of interest. Use a very specific search expression, eg. "Flash"+"online tutorial", to limit your 'hits'. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
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.
Demonstration exerciseHere is a demo (compressed approx. 30x's from the original video) of a vblogging exercise used in the Conceptual Skills class.
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!"
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.
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.
ID Project Management
Listen 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.
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.
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.
