Pancult

Podcast Blues
I can download my uploaded mp3 files from the wiki space, and I had to, as a test, to see if they were up there. But the buggers won't play.
Went to
http://www.wikispaces.com/wikitext+media
and was convinced I had to embed my audio into the wiki after uploading it to a suitable blog site. Followed a link to Odeo and after wiki whacking around it transpires new users [and apparently old users who don't know how to upload] can upload as Odeo won't let ya. Straight forward enough eh?
Followed another link to google calendars and buggered if I could find a way to upload audio into here.
Went back to NTLS wiki clicked on my second mp3 and darn it the file played.
Is this a syntax connundrum.... the playable mp3 is called Fred Richardson Story 2.MP3
The curly one was called It lead me to IT.mp3 but on trying to play it, it morphs into a file named It+lead+me+to+IT.mp3 and plays just 3 seconds or so of my dulcet tones.
Well dash my buttons! Its 12.36am, time to punch some zzzzzz
I shall return

Pancul

Latency
Had a fun and valuable intro today. Surprisingly Pat was quite relaxed working within the elluminate space. The only concept that was hard to convey was the notion of latency among and between users during an online elluminate session.
So, throwing caution to the wind, Li Ting hooked up not one but two PC's in the elluminate session, the steam powered training server rose to the occasion.[ We're so looking forward to getting our new 'Internode' service] Georgina was able to allow simultaneous moderator privileges for Adelaide and Alice Springs and our second laptop had normal student/learner permissions. [it's good to see elluminate consistently enhancing their product] So with this set up we were able to demonstrate, in real and latent time, what happens when moderators and learners use the tools in the session room. As it turned out it was an engaging and valuable learning experience for old and new learners alike. You gotta love whoever invented serendipity eh?
Research Topics.
Pat led by example and brought in a selection of archival footage stored on VHS tapes. We worked out how to use the on-screen counter and Pat has started mapping out the segments she wants to include.

The Ara Irititja Demo was also a success and garnered a lot of keen interest. It also helped demonstrate how multimedia can be packaged to become easy to navigate and control whilst at the same time being multiculturally user friendly. Definitely one of my longer sentences there, apologies!
So now we are on the road to farming the data we have and the truth thats out there somewhere Mulder. Here's a screen shot from the Ara Irititja Demo put ou by the South Australian Government I think. I was given the demo by some of the researchers involved in the project when I was working with them and the Anmattjerre mob in Ti Tree about 5 years ago.

Thats all I got for now, be happy! Fred for the NTLS07 team.




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Pancu

Preparation for the inaugural NTLS07 workshop. Our IAD network connection is way too slow to have our team all logged in merrily interacting with Georgina tomorrow. So what Li Ting and I have decided is to have just one connected laptop projected onto the wall so we can at least get the flavour of the platform. And Li Ting has sent off the request for a faster connection through Internode, that'll be up in about 10 days so we'll be humming from there. And in time for the next scheduled workshop.
I've just burnt several CD's for the team to take away tomorrow from the workshop.
I'm calling them 'kits', "NTLS07 kit 1" has rolled off the press and we'll see how it goes.
[1] 'ABC'; mp3 and pdf files to demo how mp3 'podtours' are done by Aunty.
[2] ACAP; I've OCR'd the ACAP handout into text and dumped it into a website, members can thus quickly move about in it as they start building up their chosen ACAP research topics.
[3] Ara_Irititja; Great Flash driven Indigenous resource. Google it for more info.
[4] ARED: Great easy to use tool to build up scorm compliant Flash files. Will run an intro on it at workshop #2.
[5]Audio Visual; Eye, ear and text candy; gif, mp4, mp3, pdf etc
[6] Irfanview; Image editor team tool of choice, freeware [even for edu orgs], small, clean and mean. Ripper program.
[7] PPT; Demo on how to use 'pack and go'; so team members can bring back research material embedded into their presentations that plays once it's away from their personal computers.
note; If you use Irfanview over your student network; Run each install once to alter an image and set it to output .jpg files, then lock the network down. Otherwise the default settings spit out bitmaps by default, forever, frustrating when you're working mainly with jpg's, and mind numbing if you aint got the permissions to change it!
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Panc

Pancultural-e diary of events.

Arrived back in Alice tired and inspired last week [8/4]. Great to visit Darwin in 'the wet' again and feel the rain! and meet the other Learnscope Staff and Team members. Also it was a great open atmosphere to air views, like that pun?, ask questions and generally make connections

Okay, so now the work begins. The line's been running hot between Georgina, Li Ting and Moi as we pull the threads together from Darwin, float ideas and get re-acquainted with the software platforms we'll be collaborating on/with; Moodle, elluminate, Blogspots, Wiki's, Instant Messaging a nifty 'ARED' tool and etc, etc.

Sat in at IAD for an Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Program [ACAP] last week [12/4]delivered by Pat Dodds. A great session with a stimulating audience mix: Indigenous Australians, Muslim and Europeans. It was good to attend to:
[1] get re-acquainted with the source material we'll be using to help construct the projects.
[2] enjoy the delivery and the banter that Pat always draws from participants
[3] get some mp4 video, photos and mp3 audio files for file. We'll be using these as test material when we start running the Pancultural-e workshops for the staff at IAD Fri 20/4.
Met with IAD Board Fri 13/4 and am pleased to say we have their full support. And given their 'demographic' [thanks Surya Silva] it's great that they understand the Pancultural-e concept and it's potential.

Short meet with all the team members this week and we are ready for our first online session with Georgina this Friday 20/4. We'll have a round table talk before going online just to get the neurons firing, foster input generally and to float the idea of breaking the ACAP program into manageable chunks. This will be less daunting when we can each go off and do our individual research.

The ACAP program has about 12 separate sections so on our first meeting we'll get team members to select an area they're interested [e.g. Family, Kinship, Language etc]. From there we treat it as a research topic and members populate powerpoint presentations with material they are able to find. The idea is to use this as source as we commence construction of the mp3 and mp4 podcasts and look at how we may use it towards online delivery of ACAP.

We've also scheduled in a brainstorming session aimed at adding a bit of spice to Pat's delivery. So we'll be looking for ACAP related activities, puzzles, quizzes and the like that Pat can use during delivery to engage participants. Delivery is f2f and includes a bus tour of selected Indigenous sites around Alice.
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