Episode 18 Personal Learning Environment PLE

Show notes: I talk about PLEs and informal learning; how they are set to become significant elements for individual development and that of society.

Open Education

Show Notes: Open education and open educational resources (OER) are an area of great interest to me. I’m dedicated to finding useful material and examples and sharing them more widely to allow others to access learning on their own terms.

I talk about Academic Earth post on Never Mind the Pedagogy, and the significance of such resources.

Episode 13 Copysafe music and photos

Show notes: I talk about how to access photos and music that you can use safely without infringing copyright.

I’ve written about stock photos in my Squire Morley (wp) blog

For music you need to be looking at podsafe sites, a couple being:

1. MusicAlley from the Mevio stable
2. PodsafeAudio

I also came across this video from Penn State that shows the implications for students in their coursework using appropriate material.

Episode 12 The Human Filter

Show Notes: In episode 9 I talked about information overload or inefficient filtering. Here I talk about the human filter and how individuals and networks can add value more widely by quickly accessing material and repackaging it to be easily accessible to others. I take myself as an example.

Episode 11 Breaking into a Social Network Group

Show notes: Is it possible to break into pre-existing social groups using online networks? Or is this difficult because of the social norms that they have developed over time?

In this episode I go on a bit of a ramble about some of my thought on this topic.

Episode 10 Copyright or “copywrong” – Look to Lessig

Show notes: Technology is making it easy to re-purpose all available content, especially audio and video. This is becoming an increasingly appealing approach for younger generations. Are existing copyright laws still appropriate? Or are we accidentally criminalising a new generation? I’d suggest watching Lawrence (Larry) Lessig’s TED video; it’s just under 20 minutes long.

Episode 9 Information Overload? Insufficient Filtering more like

Show Notes: A phrase often overused is “information overload”, but is this really the problem? Well the amount of information in this world isn’t going to be reducing anytime soon, so we’re going to need a more efficient means of accessing the stuff that’s interesting and significant to us.

Episode 8 Diigo – Social Bookmarking & Annotation

Show Notes: Diigo is a Social Bookmarking service with similar capabilities to its more well known counterpart, Delicious. However, Diigo also has Social Annotation functions, which raises its status to one of the most useful tools for education; learning and research. This function allows discussions to take place in situ at the relevant point of the original material.

I’ve previously written about the educational implications of Social Bookmarking, but need to do some more work on the subject.

Episode 7 Photos & Streaming Video from Phones

Show Notes: We’re all pretty much carrying carmeras around with us constantly now, possibly on our phones. I’d advise taking as many pictures as you can – it’s a quick and easy way of creating content and developing a library of supporting images to illustrate your points.

Potentially the main innovation with cameras on phones is now the ability to stream video live. It might not be the best quality, but it serves a purpose. Two services that I use are Qik and Flixwagon. I was an alpha tester for Qik and that software is now being shipped on all new Nokia models. It mean that content can be quickly online. (I’m experimenting with squirting live video out to a blog at the moment.)

Searching video might be difficult at the moment, but it’s going to get a lot easier as this from Adobe(TM) shows.

Episode 6 Video Hardware choice (pt 2)

Show Notes: Apologies for the wind noise on this episode.

What kind of media should your camcorder store to? SD or Hard drive? Also is the Flip a useful alternative?

I cover my views on these questions.