Would you like to break away from the “information first” approach to eLearning development?
I highly recommend you take a moment to watch this great presentation from Cathy Moore.
The way that we interact with the web has changed.
For many of us, it is no longer something that we “turn on” when we are looking for a specific answer or experience . . . but rather something that is “always on”.
Our ideas, assets and creations are stored in various place on the web, most of our communication and information is web-based, so why aren’t we using a presentation medium that is tightly integrated with the web?
I mean . . . have you ever tried to link to a web page from a PowerPoint presentation and back again without it disrupting the presentation!?!?
Then I discovered how easy it is to create a media RSS feed that can be displayed as a Cooliris Wall!
If you haven’t come across it before; Cooliris is a browser plugin that will “transforms your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to enjoy photos and videos from the Web or your desktop.”
This is an ideal alternative to more ‘traditional’ presentations, as you can simply export your PowerPoint or Keynote slides as images and display these on a Cooliris wall, interspersed with other images and movie files.
Now enough theory . . . if you are interested click on the image below to go to the launch page for this demonstration / tutorial.
Is this something that you would use?
Would love to hear your thoughts. Click here to go to the comments.
Years ago . . . I heard him at the back of the philosophy class and I was hooked on his ideas . . . on his words. Just one sentence and I knew that I was listening to someone who was living a deliberate life. Steve Zodiac is one of those people that you probably haven’t met and if you have you consider yourself somewhat blessed to have had to opportunity. He is someone who is able to discuss incredible philosophical ideas while being fully engaged in the physical reality.
He runs his Ute on chip oil, builds houses from whatever materials are around and has just finished doing up an old ship he found up North with the intention of using it to help in overseas charity missions. Well, this is Steve . . .
. . . and this is his ship ‘Viking May’ . . .
I would tell you about his first charity mission but I am not sure you would believe me! Maybe that story can come later . . .
Steve writes some pretty amazing stuff and when he showed me ‘Internal Revolution’, we began discussing how we can best present these thoughts to the world. Eventually deciding to put a kinetic typography animation together with the track ‘Mars’ by spaze craft one.
Enjoy!
(If you can’t see the video below, click here to go to the original post).
Old paper texture by villa-arts.
Would you like to see more of this type of content?
This is my first attempt at kinetic typography, let me know what you think in the comments before you subscribe to my RSS feed and wander off to check out spaze craft one.
I realized today that I have been recommending Topify to a number of my friends on twitter as it is a great way to manage new followers. Have you ever spent hours at a time checking every new followers profile? Or worse, made the same mistake that I did by setting up an auto-follow rule and receiving silly amounts of direct message spam.
This experience prompted me to find the easiest way of checking out my new followers and easily return the follow (i.e. without logging into twitter). I have been using Topify for the last week and cannot stop raving about this service! Here is why . . .
Get a New Follower and Topify will notify you via email. For example:
Now no offense meant for this David character, but I love twitter for the conversation so can tell at a glance that I will not be following this person by the Mr Tweet stats: 1% Conversation. If I did decide to follow David all that I would need to do is reply to the email . . . pretty easy.
Another example, I have been following the wonderful @mistygirlph for a while and when she began following me I received the following message via Topify:
You can see the difference, 87% Conversation, 45% Links & 30 Mr Tweet Recommendations. As I am already following her updates Topify gives me the option of sending her a direct message via reply email . . . which is also an option when you receive a confirmation message from Topify saying that your follow request was processed:
Topify is currently in beta, however you can grab an invitation code here, or follow @topify and request an invite!
If you would like to learn a bit more about Topify, take a look at their You Tube video:
If you enjoyed this post, you may also like to read about my experience with twitter spam and learn about how to opt out of recieving automatic direct messages.
If you enjoy following me on twitter, please drop me a Mr Tweet recommendation - Thanks!
After years of requests from passionate Mac & Captivate users, Adobe have made it known that they are working on Captivate for Mac!
I noticed this tweet from RJ Jacquez who is the Senior Product Evangelist at Adobe yesterday and it looks like the Mac version of Captivate will enter beta testing in a few months time.
This is a great step for Adobe, however it looks like TechSmith may win a few hearts before then with their release of Camtasia for Mac (they are beta testing as we speak.)
I use Captivate CS4 on my Macbook through Fusion, however the problem with this approach is that I can only record what is happening in the Windows session. For recording Mac applications I have been using ScreenFlow which is a very impressive program however it not really comparable to Captivate or Camtasia.
My hope . . . that Captivate for Mac .cp files will be 100% compatible with the Windows version of Captivate CS4.
What features do you hope Captivate for Mac includes?
What do you think the work flow will be like?
Thanks for listening Adobe.
Thanks to the unexpected rise of Twitter, global communication is happening more often than ever before.
One of the trickiest parts of communicating globally is timezones – the manual calculations become tiresome and even with the various online timezone converters there is still room for error. I once missed out on an online conference that I had been looking forward to for 6 weeks because I accidentally selected a ’slightly’ incorrect timezone . . . I stayed up until 2am one morning only to find the conference had finished 24 hours prior!
This experience prompted me to look around for the best ‘time converter’ tool I could find.
Enter Permatime, it doesn’t get much easier than this!
You simply set the meeting time in your timezone, and email the link provided to other participants who will see the meeting time in their timezone, or any other timezone they wish to view it in.
Magnificent tool, bookmark it now and follow @Permatime on twitter.
All the timezones used by Permatime are listed in the locations page (you can even request for more locations to be added!)
There are lots of ways that Permatime can help facilitate Global Communication, how will you use this?
I awoke this morning to 26 direct #clickmyjunk messages. Not a good way to start the day!
How did this happen?
Well, I have been very busy recently and hadn’t been keeping up with new followers on twitter, I had 100+ emails from twitter inviting me to check new followers profiles and I felt bad about having not done so.
I mean these are real people who have found value I what I have to say and have chosen to follow my updates, the least I could do is take a peek at their profile.
I then decided that rather than going through the 100 emails that I would just follow everyone who has followed me recently, automatically. A bad decision, I advise that you don’t do this!
I was surprised that nearly a quarter of my new follows were people who used automated services to broadcast utter rubbish.
So after unfollowing everyone who sent me a direct messages I did a little bit of research about how to automatically block DMs, here is what I ended up doing:
Now I will not receive any automated direct messages from TweetLater, for full details on the process click here.
While I am sharing, I also came across Turn This Thing Off! and love the frustrated bird!
If you use automatic DMs . . . can you please tell me why?
If you don’t use automatic DMs . . . how do you feel about them?
Before you go, have a look at how I am now managing new twitter followers and subscribe to my RSS feed.
delicious twitter Posterous
