10:30 befitt : He's going to talk about all the cool things on the internet that Alan likes!
 10:33 ustreamer-64494 : This sounds fun. Look at that photo!
 10:34 nooccar : Showing the demo first.
 10:34 mapetite : Cogdog's barking up a storm, as usual ;-)
 10:34 nooccar : Connections way faster here than in Kirk
 10:35 mapetite : Ha, I beat cogodog, posted my hello before he tweeted it ;-)
 10:35 befitt : We are listening!!
 10:35 befitt : :)
 10:36 ustreamer-99272 : Yes we are out here
 10:36 ustreamer-17834 : Hello from London, Ontario, Canada
 10:36 nooccar : Yes we're here
 10:36 mapetite : Hi alan!
 10:36 nooccar : Hi everyone
 10:36 ustreamer-39248 : Hidy ho!
 10:36 robwall : Hi Alan from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.
 10:36 ustreamer-39248 : From Donna Gaudet...hey there!
 10:36 befitt : Hello everyone in the room!!
 10:36 nooccar : o  check him out.
 10:36 nooccar : I am boring. Just here int he room
 10:39 befitt : He's using CamTwist to broadcast his powerpoints in ustreamtv
 10:40 nooccar : ooh I need this
 10:41 mapetite : WAy cool!
 10:41 Dgaudet : ooohh...I am yelling in my kitchen
 10:41 befitt : Dgaudet - I'm going to put the class shouting on YouTube in a sec!
 10:43 mapetite : tagging like crazy! tweetwheel, twmemes...
 10:43 nooccar : flickring too!
 10:45 Dgaudet : Alan...say that ISN"T your MAC!
 10:46 mapetite : @dgaudet Running Windows on a Mac is far better than running windows on a PC ;-)
 10:46 Dgaudet : @mapetite...I agree!
 10:46 mapetite : At least it's only a temporary foray into the dark side ;-)
 10:46 Dgaudet : hhaha...for sure!
 10:47 Dgaudet : 11.28 million blogs
 10:47 mapetite : Hey Ninmah! *waves* Liking your new MBP ;-)?
 10:47 befitt : I feel small
 10:47 befitt : one person says insignifcant
 10:48 mapetite : I wish I could think in pictures like cogdog; I'm so text-driven :-(
 10:49 thekyleguy : Yeah he does a great job of visuals
 10:49 Ninmah : hiya mapetite! I am loving it. I'm about to transfer all my exported email over, wish me luck ;-)
 10:49 befitt : (can you guys out there hear Alan pretty clearly?)
 10:49 Ninmah : yes, he sounds great
 10:49 ustreamer-75021 : yes, audio is pretty good here
 10:50 befitt : (Good!)
 10:50 mapetite : @Ninmah Sending positive vibes your way. The light side won't fail you,  but watch out for the dark side ;-)
 10:50 mapetite : @befitt yep, he's pretty loud and clear
 10:51 Dgaudet : super...I am loving being able to watch this
 10:53 ustreamer-17834 : Everyone and the LMS hatred...
 10:54 robwall : @kyle We gotta stop meeting like this.
 10:54 mapetite : wel, LMSs are about management and admin, not necessarily about interaction and learning
 10:54 ustreamer-17834 : A point that can be argued...  Learning can occur in an LMS as easily as with Web2.0 tools
 10:54 thekyleguy : we will stop, with a live face to face tomorrow
 10:54 mapetite : Yes it can, but it's not the first response
 10:54 ustreamer-17834 : I think it's more about the rebellious nature of academia...  resist administration
 10:55 mapetite : @ustreamer-17834: are you saying academia is rebelling or it should rebel?
 10:56 ustreamer-17834 : I'm saying that there's a tendency amongst members of the academy to rebel against administration
 10:56 mapetite : I'm not sure academia is rebelling a whole lot yet, most are pretty comfortable doing the same old same old, only difference is syllabus is now in LMS instead of being handed out
 10:56 mapetite : hmmm, interesting, in another session this morn, we talked about inertia and faculty staying in their comfort zone...
 10:57 mapetite : those who do rebel do so subversively....
 10:57 ustreamer-17834 : Interesting...  Faculty definitely love their comfort zone.  Can't argue that
 10:57 mapetite : Twitter has become my biggest learning environment..
 10:58 ustreamer-86010 : education should always be subversive in that it should change people
 10:58 ustreamer-86010 : otherwise, it's training
 10:58 nooccar : Who is this Vicki? Can we follow her?
 10:58 nooccar : 96010 Yes!
 10:59 Dgaudet : nooccar...what is Vicki's Twitter username?
 11:00 thekyleguy : coolcatteacher
 11:02 Dgaudet : thanks thekyleguy
 11:02 thekyleguy : no worries. heading out now
 11:02 nooccar : THANKS!
 11:02 befitt : mapetite - I agree... I've learned a lot thru twitter. :)
 11:03 ustreamer-86010 : i m having trouble reading the text on alan's slides
 11:03 befitt : Can you make it full screen?
 11:03 ustreamer-86010 : nope, can't (hi, biray--this is linda chatting from b.c., canada)
 11:04 mapetite : Seriously doubt barak's twittering himself!
 11:04 nooccar : Can you all hear?
 11:04 ustreamer-86010 : sometimes
 11:04 ustreamer-86010 : volume is very uneven
 11:04 nooccar : He twitters me all the time! I am special
 11:04 mrlosik : so weird to watch a Ustream from Maricopa. Used to coach football there in 1996. Now living and teaching Michigan.
 11:04 nooccar : He should have a lapel mic. That would help
 11:05 befitt : well, mrLosik welcome back (in spirit)
 11:05 mapetite : Student in egypt got sprung from jail thanks to twitter
 11:05 nooccar : wife is across campus but can't hear it
 11:05 nooccar : yes I saw that one too mapetite
 11:05 nooccar : on CNN 
 11:05 nooccar : twitter got major media for that one
 11:05 mapetite : and the interesting thing is that he'd been introduced to twitter by his friends in Egypt ;-)
 11:06 mapetite : yes, really put twitter in the spotlight
 11:06 befitt : Yes, I heard about the egypt student
 11:06 nooccar : ooooo ZOMBIES!
 11:06 befitt : the student just twittered "arrested"
 11:06 mapetite : incidentally, twitter is in the US, jaiku is the one that's popular in Europe, same difference
 11:06 nooccar : I wanna twitterlit!
 11:06 MindTweaks : What's the server monitor site he just mentioned?
 11:06 ustreamer-86010 : twitter is new to me--i can't quite get an overview of its purpose and functionality.
 11:07 Dgaudet : Alan...come back to the microphone!
 11:07 befitt : ustreamer-86010 - you can get a quick overview of twitter at slideshare.net - search "Twitter Pod"
 11:08 befitt : is that better Dgaudet?
 11:08 ustreamer-86010 : befitt, thx--will do
 11:08 nooccar : Alan posted about not getting a WP shirt last week and they responded to him FAST through twitter.
 11:08 mapetite : ustreamer-86010 Hard to explain, it's like having virtual presence in your social netwrok's lives...
 11:08 nooccar : I wonder if they sent it
 11:08 nooccar : Hi Donna!
 11:08 mapetite : proprioception as alan just said
 11:08 Dgaudet : befitt...better
 11:08 Dgaudet : HI, nooccar
 11:08 ustreamer-86010 : !WP shirt?
 11:09 nooccar : WordPress
 11:09 nooccar : Alltel is evil
 11:09 nooccar : My stream is a little slow here.
 11:09 nooccar : There's the girl! He's a slide aheard
 11:10 mapetite : Best way to find out what twitter is/what it does is to twitter :-)
 11:10 ustreamer-86010 : he's making a great point--sometimes skimming through the fizz on the top takes more time than we have
 11:11 robwall : RSS is like the force. It holds the unviverse together.
 11:11 ustreamer-86010 : oh, no--not lol catz
 11:12 Dgaudet : LOLcats are the best!
 11:12 ustreamer-86010 : :-D
 11:12 Dgaudet : theyz are theez bestz
 11:12 mapetite : robwall: May the force be with you! Always ;-)
 11:12 ustreamer-86010 : i can haz twitter??
 11:12 Dgaudet : hahahaahah! Good one!
 11:12 MindTweaks : lol
 11:12 Dgaudet : I can haz web 2.0
 11:14 ustreamer-86010 : should we be concerned that the packaging can become more important than the content?
 11:15 nooccar : I was asked to share a pic of my SHED with some ppl is Ireland. A shed group ...
 11:16 mapetite : @86010: what would you describe as the content here and waht as the packaging?
 11:16 ustreamer-86010 : Shed as in rustic little building?
 11:16 ustreamer-86010 : mapetite, i'm talking about asking students to create multimedia presentations on course content
 11:16 ustreamer-86010 : not this delightful stuff that is just 4 fun
 11:17 befitt : Go USTREAM!! :)
 11:17 robwall : Gotta go, but I'm looking forward to watching the recording.
 11:17 mapetite : @86010 I think it depends on what you emphasise when making that request...
 11:18 ustreamer-86010 : yes, i agree, but there is always the temptation on the part of students to dress up weak content with flashy packaging
 11:18 mapetite : But doesn't a paper also emphasize packaging? In this case it would be style, margins, spacing, etc.
 11:19 ustreamer-86010 : yes, that is very true, but visual elements are more mesmerizing, i think
 11:20 mapetite : maybe not to all :-) An eloquent passage in a book can hold me in it;s thrall far more than a picture can. However, this generation has grown up with far more visual media than text...
 11:20 befitt : Thanks Alan for a great presentation! :)
 11:21 ustreamer-86010 : VERY interesting stuff--thanks!
 11:21 mapetite : and a multimedia project may engage students in a differnt way, get them to think about something they take for granted differently
 11:22 Dgaudet : thanks Alan...I am glad I got to see this!
 11:22 Ninmah : clap clap!
 11:22 mapetite : Cogdog, rocked the house as usual :-)