CogBlogged Tagged ‘collaboration’

With our growing number of NMC organizations in Australia I’ve been exploring/wondering of ways to better connect and grow this community down under. I’ve been doubtful of the connectivity possibility (mainly the audio) of our Adobe Connect room we use for our monthly seminars. The built in tool that provides data on a user’s local network latency (the little green chicklet in the upper right corner) has shown in our testing that when this hits above 270 msec audio loss kicks in– I suffer from this myself with my rural cable connection, and in some tests yesterday with colleagues in Brisbane, they were getting latency well over 300. We did have some interesting success with a smaller scale group meeting tool– ooVoo (crazy ASCII like name, eh)? a tool for doing video chat. We were able to have pretty clear video conversation between me here in Arizona, and colleagues Phil [...]

flickr foto SAC 2005 Session on Collaboration Toolsavailable on my flickr "Everybody say, I give permission to post my image on flickr!" Well, there is no way I am blogging my own session… that is someone elses job! This was the wild and open range discussion on “Collaboration Tools: What’s Out There?” and it was a great showing for the last day of the conference. We got all over the map of wikis, social bookmark tools, tagging, FERPA, instructional use of these tools… I was honored to be part of this session with technology all stars Phillip Long and Stephen Downes. There are some extensive notes (to be attached) taken by Cyprien Lomas here in SubEthaEdit with remote collaboration by Nick Noakes in Hong Kong. I ahd some links and resources set up in a wiki at: http://cogdog.wikispaces.org/CollabTools, and Stephen was recording the whole session with an MP3 recorder (it [...]

Bear with me on a long introduction here, but later in this post I am asking for ideas and possible remote participation in an upcoming presentation. In an email exchange a few months back, Phil Long had asked me and Stephen Downes (I am the little leg on this stool) thoughts on a presentation on internet collaboration tools. I jotted some ideas down, clicked send, and did not realize that I had missed the point that Phil was asking us to co-present this session at the EDUCAUSE Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC). It hit me a few weeks ago when someone from EDUCAUSE emailed with reminders of registration and an inquiry as to who this “A. Levine” was. So I’m signed up for SAC.. it’s almost like getting let in the back door to the ritzy country club, as this event has been referred to as “Snowmass” for its high [...]