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I’ve finally caught up with my other colleagues in getting into relaxed, holiday, not-at-the-office for a while mode. One of the nice side perks of working in education is getting their holiday schedule, so I am away from the building until January 3, hibernating up in our comfy cabin in Strawberry, in frequently sipping the internet through a 28 kbs dial-up straw. We’re wondering where winter is, as high pressure over the southwest has our temps in the mid 60s in the day, and barely below 50 at night, maybe 20 degrees warmer than it ought to be. And there has not been significant precipitation here in Arizona since October. We want snow, but there nearest moisture must be 1000 miles away. Even the last week at Maricopa, the internal email dropped off to almost nil as most made an early exit, and my major accomplishment on my last day [...]

I’m getting prepped to do some upcoming audio interviews wia Skype or iChat A/V — I have a new iRiver mp3 recorder with a line in, and was fussing with hooking that up with a microphone to record me talking and external speakers for the interviewee… If I thought my previous iRiver had a confusing interface, the IFP-799 takes the confusion cake… the manual is 50+ pages, and there is a 10 layer deep sequence of obscure control settings. I am sure it will just take time, from a user design, it… well sucks. Someone please send the iRiver folks a palette of Donald Norman books please. This contortion was because my previous attempts using WireTapPro were limited because you could only choose to record audio line in OR audio out, not both; doing so required a third LineIn mixing software that gave me grief. Since the software would not [...]

Since I am on the extreme margin of involvement of course management systems at Maricopa, I’ve not intensively followed the latest CMS stuff, but hear that Sakai is bubbling and there is even more spots of interest on the adoption of Moodle. Leon at Y.uk? emailed about 2 new Moodle articles on his blog, “Innovative Practitioners and Moodle” Listen to our latest two casts from innovators in education Ian Usher and Drew Buddie. as well as “Skype interview with Miles Berry about Moodle”: If you have wondered about Moodle and how it is being used in schools – listen to our third podcast over Skype with Miles Berry of St Ives School in Haslemere Surrey. Apparently there is a Moodle gathering coming up called MoodleMoot (the rate of Moodle word creation is peaking, it is just such a fun word. Do you fell that little giggle when saying the name [...]

Whew, this is fun! Without much effort, I have added another 5 interviews, each under 5 minutes, for my upcoming article on digital net audio, You can find all 11 and (more as I add ‘em) on the mcli Forum Spring 2005 Podcast. Joining the crowd, and rounding out some of the gender gap thanks to this morning’s call for help, are: * D’Arcy Norman, University of Calgary * Sherri Vokey, University of Nevada – Las Vegas * Bert Kimura, Osaka Gakuin University (Japan) * Susan Smith Nash, Excelsior College (New York) and Xplanazine writer * Sue Lister, Ontaria Canada (she made it easy by sending my a URL for her own podcast response to my questions) I’ll be gathering a few more through the end of next week (I am on break through March 21)– now looking to widen the geographic reach (although I’ve chatted to Japan just today). [...]

Today was one of those technical gambles that actually, sort of worked! This morning, the EDUCUASE/NLII Meeting in New Orleans had a general session where the New Media Consortium provided a 5 Minutes of Fame overview of their just released Horizon Report (I was lucky to be among some great colleagues on thei Adivsory Board for this year’s version). Anyhow, Larry Johnson had asked me to do a part at the session to talk about the report’s coverage of “Ubiquitous Wireless”– and I offered the challenge of doing a remote presentation since I would not be attending the meeting in New Orleans – I offered to give Skype a go, and he was asking for a safe guard back up via BreezeLive (scratched that as I had no time to prepare), and in the end we settled on using iChatA/V between by desktop here in Arizona and Cyprien Lomas’ laptop [...]

We’ve just put online our Fall 2004 issue of our office’s publication, the mcli Forum, and am finally glad I can share with you the featured technology interview I did with Brian Lamb, perhaps not so cleverly titled as “Where the Wiki Things Are”. How do you help people make the “Aha” step from that first look of puzzlement when you describe a web site that anyone can edit or destroy? I think when they begin to understand that the users are in control; that though they may sacrifice some functions such as security and organization, they gain a great deal of speed and autonomy. It really requires doing to become a believer. I do have one gimmick, where I invite people in the audience to erase or deface all of my materials. Then I restore my stuff with a few clicks of the mouse. That really is the key [...]

My editor was pressuring me. I had stalled on my next technology article for the Fall 2004 issue of our publication, the mcli Forum. I had waited too long to do interviews with some faculty (there are some coo, things some folks are doing with teaching GPS… maybe in the Spring…) What would I do? Then a flash of brilliance (or I thought, maybe it was the lights flickering down the hall). Since we were introducing wikis via our Ocotillo Action Groups, an interview with someone that could talk profoundly about wikis would be key. Like Brian Lamb, who just wrote the great article on wikis in EDUCAUSE Review. My flash was asking Brian if I could conduct an interview via iChat. I could have done an email interview, but this sounded more spontaneous. And fun. I have to say it worked well. I got about 15 questions answered thoughtfully [...]