http://cogdogblog.com Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:58:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's interesting to get smidgens of insight into how people link to your blog. For a window of time last week I saw an interesting pattern (when was traveling and missed out on the week of celebrity deaths). Look at the keyword searches people used in Google to get ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/07/03/me-and-farrah/ In some of my recent attempts to get good video on YouTube, I seemed to have been swinging wildly and missing. MPEG-4 video that looked great on my desk top ended up with the voice out of sync with the moving lips. Before going about it again, I sought out ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/07/03/video-settings-for-youtube/ All the video/app/being-on-the-net-anywhere fun of the iPhone comes at a cost- the limits of its battery life. And yes, you cannot carry a spare. Since I have some long distance travel I've been interested in some for the battery boosters for the iDevices. I was almost ready to go for ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/07/03/mophie-mojo/ see more Lolcats and funny pictures Sometimes your plans work even better then your wildest dreams. Related posts:Watch Out for those Sneaky Cats http://cogdogblog.com/2009/07/01/exceeding-expectations/ I've started doing some Skype video interviews to collect the material for an upcoming Open Education conference presentation on Amazing Stories of Openness. In an email exchange with Leigh Blackall, I thought it could be fun to post a call for stories on YouTube and ask people to respond in ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/07/01/video-call-amazing-stories/ cc licensed flickr photo shared by misterbisson Yep my internet grandchildren, Old CogDog remembers when e-mail was pretty much it for everything on online activity, long before junk mail, phishing, spam, twitter, facebook. blogs, heck before the web. It;s refreshing when something nice just lands in thr box, and makes you pause ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/06/29/email-gift/ cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog That keynote speaker, is he talking to me? Yep. In his ED-MEDIA presentation on Beyond Management: The Personal Learning Environment, slide 14, Stephen describes the process that is at the core of his activity (16,000+ posts since 2001!), which he named in honor of little ole ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/06/29/arrff/ I pulled out all the Hawaii in yer eye themes for the latest incarnation of my dog and dog show, presenting 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story for the EDMEDIA 2009 conference (all links mentioned in the show are just a scroll away from that link) It went fine, ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/06/29/hawaii-50-ways/ cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I've been saying that annotating maps is one of the most under-used edtech tools, given the wonderful capabilities one can do (for free) in Google MyMaps-- Gmaps are more than finding driving locations to the nearest sushi bar. The fact that you can ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/06/28/mapping-my-way/ This is my (shameless) pitch for some material for an upcoming presentation for the August 2009 OpenEd conference... also at http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/AmazingStories modified from an original January 1935 issue found at the archive from Galactic Central Amazing Stories of Openness While the Open Education movement focuses on institutional issues, a large ocean exists of ... http://cogdogblog.com/2009/06/22/amazing-stories-wanted/