I just attempted posting to this - I had a huge post and it just didn't work. Now, I'm faced with retyping it. Therefore, this will be more brief than I want.
The delay in posting is due to taking a vacation in mid-June to a location that charged 25 cents per minute for Internet use at a cafe! I'm too cheap, but I sure missed it; perhaps, the experience was good for me. Anyway, we got back and the first thing, my mother-in-law had to have surgery. She is like a Mom to me, so this was no easy thing. We are still trying to make sure she is ok.
Anyway, started attending a conference called e/merge 2004 - Blended Collaborative Learing in Southern Africa at from June 28 - July 10. Good conference, with participants and presenters from all over the world. Will post more about this Wednesday.
Attended a Jungle Tour with Robin Good (a Roman, that is a leader in reporting on new technology). Interesting that he is a presenter - I've been reading his blogs for months! Anyway, he showcased Voxfire and iVocalize today. Both technologies are VoIP and work pretty well with low bandwidth. Tomorrow, the high bandwidth Jungle Tour.
Talk to you soon.
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Sorry for not posting in such a long time. We left for vacation in mid-June and came back to surgery for my mother-in-law! Anyway, I've been working on several chapters at once on the book. Since June 28th, I've been attending an online conference (htt on Blended Collaborative Learning in Southern Africa. I've learned a ton in just a few days. Gilly Salmon was promoting information from her new book on eModerators - I just finished the old book about 3 months ago and had no idea she was working on a new book. Her presentation was a little over the top for me - things like using a metaphor of four different planets to represent the future of collaborative learning. The planets are Contenteous, Instantia, Namadic, and Cafe'lattia. As I said - just a little over the top, but still quite interesting.
Over the weekend, I watched several of the presentations that were created in Breeze - so you hear their voice with each slide. It was a good idea to do this, since I feel like we should read the presentations through before the actual even. Robin Good (from Rome) had a presentation on the Tour of Synchronous and Synchronous Collaboration Environments. This was good, but what a coincidence - I've been reading his blog for months. He gave a Jungle Tour today of technologies for low-bandwidth - mainly VoIP with text and browswer sharing. The first was Voxfire, the second was iVocalize - he even tucked in some stuff from his Flash Comm Server. Both of these technologies will be shared in the book - so it was nice to actually work in a group to see how it works.
There is another Jungle Tour Wednesday at 9 a.m. my time (4:00 p.m.) their time. In Indiana, we are at -5:00 GMT and this was at +2.00 GMT. I'm finally getting the hang of it. The only problem is that the conference participants aren't often online when I'm online unless I go to a live event. At this one this morning, some where talking about their time of 1:00 A.M!!! I am so impressed with this conference because of the price and quality. It was R320 which is about $50 in US. If any accounting students are reading this, go check out a currency calculator!
I'll try to keep this going a little better again. While we were on vacation, I had no Internet, none, nada, zip! I had Internet withdrawal, but I also lost the habit of updating this blog. I need to get some fancier blogging going, and I will, but right now - I'm keeping my nose to the grindstone. My new deadline is June 19th (which happens to be a meeting with the CFA at SMWC). OK, enough for now.
Over the weekend, I watched several of the presentations that were created in Breeze - so you hear their voice with each slide. It was a good idea to do this, since I feel like we should read the presentations through before the actual even. Robin Good (from Rome) had a presentation on the Tour of Synchronous and Synchronous Collaboration Environments. This was good, but what a coincidence - I've been reading his blog for months. He gave a Jungle Tour today of technologies for low-bandwidth - mainly VoIP with text and browswer sharing. The first was Voxfire, the second was iVocalize - he even tucked in some stuff from his Flash Comm Server. Both of these technologies will be shared in the book - so it was nice to actually work in a group to see how it works.
There is another Jungle Tour Wednesday at 9 a.m. my time (4:00 p.m.) their time. In Indiana, we are at -5:00 GMT and this was at +2.00 GMT. I'm finally getting the hang of it. The only problem is that the conference participants aren't often online when I'm online unless I go to a live event. At this one this morning, some where talking about their time of 1:00 A.M!!! I am so impressed with this conference because of the price and quality. It was R320 which is about $50 in US. If any accounting students are reading this, go check out a currency calculator!
I'll try to keep this going a little better again. While we were on vacation, I had no Internet, none, nada, zip! I had Internet withdrawal, but I also lost the habit of updating this blog. I need to get some fancier blogging going, and I will, but right now - I'm keeping my nose to the grindstone. My new deadline is June 19th (which happens to be a meeting with the CFA at SMWC). OK, enough for now.
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