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My e-learning report card

It’s that time of year when assessment, exams and reporting on student progress take precedence over more mundane matters. I thought I’d take the time out to check through my own progress and outcomes in the use of e-learning materials this semester. Apologies in advance, as it’s a biggish post, and I had thought about

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Day 26: Bring on the Media

Back to the daily Comment Challenge tasks and I’m hunting down some A-V apps to diversify commenting and make it more dynamic. I’ve had a few words to say over the past week or so on my commenting using Seesmic, so I won’t bang the drum again. If you haven’t read them, just type ‘Seesmic’

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Cinco de Mayo or Day 5 of the Comment Challenge

Now Cinco de Mayo is huge elsewhere, but it kind of passes us by down here in Australia, a bit the way Australia Day would in Mexico. There you go! However what does unite us globally on a daily … seemingly hourly basis what with television, Twitter, Facebook et al … are words and images,

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Comment Challenge goes Flickr

Interested in sending up a video comment on the challenge? Have some images or screenshots that capture the 31 days of this adventure. Look no further. A couple of fevered brains  (aka Dogtrax and Dramagirl) have cooked up a Flickr Group to satisfy your cravings for moving and still images. Here’s a chance to try

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Video on Flickr: a traveller’s moving postcards

Image by pixiesticks23 via FlickrI got all excited this morning when I learned that Flickr have finally introduced video uploads for Pro users ($US24.95 a year). Yes, I know YouTube is free … but aesthetics as well as economics enter into the equation when you’re deciding where to host your creativity. Personally, I like the

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Tiny, wee movies and moving postcards

From today, the fabulous Flickr photo application allows pro users ($US24.95 a year) to upload up to 90 secs of individual videos to their site. Formerly users could submit still shots only. I’ve been shooting and collecting images in a ‘theatres’ set on my Flickr page for a few years now. This morning I added

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Moving Postcards


Creative Commons License photo credit: Leo Reynolds

I’m on holiday, so I’ve been playing with Animoto again today. I produced a short animated postcard on life around my place, here on a ridge in southern Queensland. It’s called Yarrawonga, which in the language of the indigenous people means ‘place of trees.’ I took the shots from the Project 366 set I’ve created on Flickr.

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Fulfilling Readers’ Expectations…the great and the small

Image: Expectations dcjohn Looking back over a year or more of blog posts, I can see a profound change in my blog’s focus … for the better. Back then it was a collage of the personal, professional, and even a smattering of the political. Now it is focussed on the by-line which guides my writing:

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