CogBlogged Tagged ‘cooliris’

I’m testing a new embed feature thingie. I hope they don’t get made I am doing this on my blog. They did not say “shush”…. and I did ask. Maybe this feature is already out. It’s doing a CoolIris embed from my flickr tag “dog” (what else?) Cool. Iris. Here is another one, this time using the MediaRSS feed I made for my Real Time Web presentation at Tulanw but it is now placed right in the page– http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/tulane09/embed.html and it now offers the same embed code to pass it around elsewhere. Cool. Iris. Cool

My session yesterday at the Open Education Conference was absolutely the most fun thing I have put together for a conference. it was so fun I did not wait til the night before to finish it. The images above were totally not necessary, but I found myself up at 1:30am mocking up old covers from a collection of scans of the original Amazing Stories magazines (for which, I openly admit, I may not have permission to do). So if you want to watch the presentation, you can do so via the UStream recording but to be honest, it is better explored via the Amazing Stories site— the CoolIris version of the presentation (more or less a glossy way to browse the stories), or the individual stories as launchable videos, or the URLs relevant to the stories, or even a flash player to play them all sequentially at http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09/. The Idea [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by [phil h] I’m a huge fan of CoolIris, the browser plugin that turns media content into an amazing flowing virtual wall. It is hands down one of the best ways to explore flickr or YouTube searches, since results are not limited to one page, it becomes endless flow. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Since February, I have been crafting a lot of my presentations in the CoolIris format, using the form of RSS to drive the content I pick- see my documentation on Tricking Out CoolIris as a Presentation Tool as well as the step by step instructions posted by Doug Belshaw. The reason it works for me is the way I can associate “slides” with a URL so I can jump out to a web page and easily return to the presentation- or it is seamless to jump around. cc licensed [...]

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, I had fun, people laughed at the Blabberize Alpaca. There is an audio recording coming from EDMEDIA, which is going to be full of me popping my p’s a bit loudly. It was a few days before that I realized I was missing a key cultural reference: Hawaii 50+ Ways the trailer Going into this I felt I needed something new as an angle. ED-MEDIA is a big international conference, and swirls around the thousands of papers presented. Egads, I needed something academic? I’m really ready to hang it up and retire the shtick. This time I tried to [...]

In two days will be lifting off from Phoenix towards Honolulu for the 2009 ED-MEDIA conference which means I have 48 hours of presentation prep (actually more since I don’t present til Wednesday). I am doing another spin of 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story again using hand coded RSS and CoolIris to run the show. I hear from folks who want easier ways to run presos in CoolIris (if you missed that boat, get the cool Firefox add on)- and there are more options now, including running it from a set of photos on your desktop, and likely the easiest, IMHO, is to create a flickr set and view that in CoolIris. A recent tweak I found, which adds zero to the presentation itself, but I could not resist, is the new ability to add your own custom logo to the CoolIris menu bar: This is just [...]

Today was a full on day at the opening end of a 2 week road dog trip around New England. Yesterday I flew into Newark, and did the train into New York for today’s fantastic experience at the Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction at Baruch College, thanks to a generous invitation form Mikhail Gershovich to be a workshop presenter. Today’s events deserve a full blog post (hopefully coming next), but this was the first in a series of re-presenting 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, which I am a bit worried as becoming one of these road show presenter types as it will be 2 years old in July. But there is some new life; A few tools are retired (JumpCut, Zude, Flektor, Thumbstacks), but added even more- PhotoPeach, Tikatok, Tar Heel Reader, Pixton, and the exciting and first and maybe nauseating later– prezi (I [...]

What I used for today’s presentation was one of those lucky cool finds that can lift my from a web 2.0 sized rut. Today I was invited to give an opening keynote back at some old stomping grounds; Scottsdale Community College was hosting their first “TechTools” day, and I got tagged to kick it off. I was asked to touch on new technology and understand students use of technology, which led me down a few paths- one for some Digital Native bashing, but also a chance to delve into two trends I am growing interested in – one being YouTube / video as a communication and its evolving culture. I borrowed heavily from the brilliant videos by Michael Wesch (I am convinced I could make an entire presentation just by playing his videos). And the other the rise of DIY culture and media creativity as a past-time. And for the [...]