Podding Downunder

Many years ago in pre-Internet days a friend (Peter) and I spent a week or two on the Greek Island of Patmos. Peter recently wrote up his diary entries of the time, and it inspired me to finally record a song I wrote as I left the island by ferry on a wet and windy night. It's called Lights Across the Water. The lyrics are printed below. I may elaborate on the background to the song at some later date. But for now, here it is.

References: http://factmyth.com/factoids/liberals-and-conservatives-brains-are-different-on-average/ Turns out there's quite a lot of commentary around this issue in the American context: https://braindecoder.com/post/politics-neuroscience-1282982492 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/ http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-conservative-brains-are-wired-differently-and-what-means-our-politics http://www.salon.com/2014/07/29/secrets_of_the_right_wing_brain_new_study_proves_it_conservatives_see_a_different_hostile_world/ https://www.ted.com/talks/robb_willer_how_to_have_better_political_conversations#t-265472

Some not particularly eloquent thoughts about the work of Sugata Mitra (about 8 minutes) The IATEFL reaction: http://leoxicon.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/to-confer-or-to-concur.html#more Graham Stanley's blog post: http://blog-efl.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/the-rise-of-soles-part-2-at-heart-of.html Creative Commons music from Lohstana David: http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/785426/petit-talibe-instrumental-version

Online Presentation for the VET Development Centre (27/3/14; about 53 minutes) Accompanying slides: http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/innovation-in-the-australian-sector-is-it-possible

Presentation given to TAFE Australian Libraries Conference (TALC) in Brisbane (22/11/13)

Spoken reflections on a talk from Don Watson at the concluding session of Adelaide's Festival of Ideas. (About 6 mins)

Presentation for the TAFE SA Learn Network (30/9/13). Accompanying slides at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/where-is-the-internet-taking-us Creative Commons Intro and Outro music: Seim by KraftiM (http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/214223/seim) About 43 minutes

The Assessment Obsession - whatever happened to teaching? Presentation given at the Transforming Assessment for the Digital Era Conference (Melbourne, 31/7/13)http://digitalassessments.com/ Accompanying slides at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/the-slow-march-to-eassessment-in-the-vet-sector About 30 mins.

My presentation at ConVerge12 (November 22nd). Refers to global trends listed HERE. Slides HERE. (About 35 mins)

Edited excerpts from the conversation between Nellie Deutsch and Mike Wesch in WIZIQ on July 25th. Mike shares his thoughts on being an educator in a media saturated environment, what changes may be occurring in our brains as a result of constant use of technology, setting meaningful assessment tasks, the Flipped Classroom model, and most notably, being a successful teacher by loving your students! (about 18 minutes)

My thoughts on sessions attended from the NCVER Conference held in Adelaide from July 11th to 13th, 2012. Especially for Melanie and Melanie :) (About 16 minutes)

Presentation given at SACAL (South Australian Council of Adult Literacy) event. June 21st, 2012. Companion slides at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/the-language-of-ict-or-how-ict-has-changed-language About 30 mins.

This is the first draft of a song I wrote for my son who has just headed off to live in Europe. (4 mins) NEW TIMES CHORUS Well my son’s away – our thoughts and prayers go with you Travel far and safe – our love goes always with you As you follow your dreams – remember those at home go with you Though you’re far away we travel in silence with you Hoping you’ll find what you’re seeking There’ll be brand new faces – who will want to know you Brand new places and some will no doubt test you But I know you’ll find your way through CHORUS I have watched you change – from baby to grown man I love who you’ve become – a man who knows that children Can teach us lots of life’s lessons And no matter how long – you roam the world afar There are people at home – who you can always turn to If it all seems too hard CHORUS BRIDGE I wandered abroad to discover new seas We took you away from this land that you now leave So I well understand what now takes you away And wonder alone what your new world will bring And if this land.....will be home again CHORUS

My thoughts in response to Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains." ED-MEDIA Conference, Lisbon, June, 2011. (http://www.aace.org/conf/cities/lisbon/) Paper at http://tinyurl.com/6xcej6g Slides at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/thinkly-deeply-about-the-shallows-update About 25 mins

Conversation with Mike Seyfang after a visit to the Science 1100 ‘ipad class’ at Adelaide University. Quite a lot of background noise from students having lunch but still quite audible. (10 minutes) #science1100

Where my thinking is on eportfolios after the recent ePortfolios Australia Conference in Melbourne (November 3-4). Slides can be viewed in tandem with the audio at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/eportfolios-a-boomers-perspective (17 mins)

Thoughts on the Creative Commons Roadshow at the State Library on September 22nd, 2010. http://creativecommons.org.au/cc-roadshow-2010/program (12 minutes)

A wide ranging chat with Heikal Husin, from the University of South Australia (School of Computer and Information Sciences), about the challenges of implementing web 2.0 tools and approaches in the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) sector in South Australia. Quite long - 90 minutes - so maybe listen to it in sections. Covers the role of management, organisational culture, the opposing forces of innovation and auditing, and more. Recorded on May 24th, 2010 (Creative Commons image below courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaycross/)

Clayton Werner interviews Michael Coghlan as the featured 'Songcatcher' (songwriter) on Radio Adelaide (http://radio.adelaide.edu.au/) on May 10th, 2010. Sponsored by SCALA (http://www.scala.org.au/) Includes a few songs. (50 mins)

Audio from a live session on May 7th, 2010. Can be viewed in conjunction with the slides HERE.  It’s a long one (70 mins) and audio is variable – Frankie Forsyth beaming in from a car on the road in Tasmania, questions from the floor, etc. Jonathan Finkelstein of LearningTimes is the other featured speaker.   http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/effective-training-in-virtualclassroomsmay20

for those gathered in Qatar with Buthaina Al-Othman.

A discussion with Jonathan Finkelstein from Learning Times (http://learningtimes.org/) on the value of synchronous learning. On location at the Tasmanian Innovations Showcase in Hobart on November 27th.

Some thoughts (about 15 minutes worth) on 2 recent presentations by Martin Westwell (Mind Over Matter), and Virginia Carrington (Literacy, Identity and Culture in a Web 3.0 World) Martin is an Oxford researcher specialising in Neuroscience and Education currently based at Flinders University. Virginia is from the University of South Australia and has been researching the use of text in gaming environments and 3D worlds. Materials from the Mind over Matter seminar available at http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/home/pid/646 Image courtesy of http://flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/225429168/

10 minutes long. http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html http://itunes.stanford.edu/ http://itunes.berkeley.edu/

My current thoughts - 8 minutes. Photo courtesy of http://flickr.com/photos/isabisa/945533805/

Some thoughts on the >Symposium of Reason; Learning in the 21st Century, and Will Richardson and The Why of Web 2.0 Photo of symposium posted by Mike Seyfang. (More images here .) More commentary via Alex Hayes at http://alexanderhayes.com/2008/05/02/alls-well/ Intro and Outro music: Fear of Being Too Good (Michael Coghlan)

Keynote presentation at Access and General Education Faculty Forum at Dubbo (NSW) on May 8th. Accompanying slides at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/tools-for-re-engagement (About 40 minutes)

Presentation given at the Wireless Ready event in Nagoya on March 29th, 2008. (http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/) There is a short introduction from Michael Thomas (pictured), and some quieter spots near the end as members of the audience provide some feedback. About 45 minutes. Accompanying slides at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/where-is-the-m-in-interactivity-collaboration-and-feedback, and a wiki for any and all to contribute to at http://whereisthem.wikispaces.com/

This is a conversation with John Nebauer, a librarian at the Croydon Campus of TAFE SA. John talks about the role of technology in his job as a librarian, with particular reference to social software. John refers to Google Reader - http://www.google.com/reader/view/ Delicious - http://del.icio.us Cloud Tags - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud LibraryThing - http://www.librarything.com/ Twitter - http://twitter.com About 12 mins long.

Comments for Mark and Deb at TAFE SA but may be useful for others. About 8 mins long. With reference to the 2008 Horizon Report - http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

(8 mins)

Snippets of conversations about teaching and technology from 4 Ph D students at Suranaree University of Technology (http://www.sut.ac.th/indexen.html) – Benz, Eric and Paul, and Henry from Guizhou University. Guizhou have been funded by the Chinese government to become a specialist technology centre. (15 mins)

About 30 mins. Talking about our 4 days together, networked learning, the concept and usefulness of FLNW, etc.

Vance Stevens and Trish Everett talking...about 10 mins. (Sorry about all the background noise - noisy place Bangkok) http://www.asb.th.edu/

(about 6 minutes) International School Bangkok FLNW2 Webheads Songdo Vance Steven's Presentation

Vance Stevens and John Eyles explain... (11 mins)

Presentation given at the Inclusive eLearning Showcase in Melbourne on Dec 5th, 2007. (about 1 hr) Accompanying slides

Presentation at the inaugural Conference on Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/professions/education/) The audio is occasionally a little muddy as I wander around away from the recorder. The last 5 minutes is some useful discussion between audience members (including Dr Kaye Bowman) The movie played during the presentation is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o Accompanying slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc (About 28 mins)

Presentation given at the Community Engagement Showcase in Cairns on November 6th. Topics include the Webhead community, the role of voice technologies, and other 'tools for engagement.' (Long - 1 hour) accompanying slides

Reflections from an unconference session as part of the eShownTell2007 event today (Nov 8) held in Elluminate. http://networksevents.flexiblelearning.net.au/ More at http://eshowntell2007.edublogs.org/ (About 2 mins) The image shows the topics brainstormed for discussion.

Information on ConVerge (2 mins)

This is a long one – 55 minutes. A presentation at the ESL Educators conference in Adelaide. The topic was Developing Online Community, with particular reference to the Webhead community, but it grazes over a number of related topics: • The appeal of online community • The nature of online relationships • Consequences of the ‘digital footprint’ Barbara (Bee) Dieu beamed in to contribute to the session from Sao Paulo. I suspect some (Stephen Downes?) may object to my interchangeable use of the terms ‘community’ and ‘networks’, but I didn’t want to get bogged down with definitions. It was a good session I think. Audio level of audience participants is a bit soft at times, but if you turn up the volume you can hear them. Accompanying slides at Slideshare

Acquiring Soft Skills using the Net (fromTerry Anderson) Twitter and New Horizons (Sue Waters) About 3 mins

A few thoughts on Howard Rheingold's plenary session on Sept 27th. Addressing topics such as participatory media, the moral panic associated with web 2.0, blogging and Second Life. About 8 minutes long. Howard Rheingold edayz

Just seeing if movies made with Photostory will play in Podomatic, and it seems to work. I had to convert the wmv file to mp4 first. (Done with SuperC.) About 2 mins long.

A 30 minute recording of a presentation to Tabor College that tracks the history of the online, flexible, and elearning landscape. Mention is made of Learning Management Systems, the Salmon model of emoderation, elearning 2.0 and social software, models of delivery, and our responsibilities as elearning educators. Adelaide residents will recognize this delightful old building as the former orphanage on Goodwood Rd. The audio accompanies this slide presentation .

Why would I want to be part of this? And why might you like to join us? (about 3 mins - although the audio loops for some reason. Ignore the second part)

This is a follow-up podcast for the one day Wireless Ready symposium held in Nagoya in March, 2007. It is about 17 mins long. You can read the text of this episode at http://newlearning.wikispaces.com/Podcast+Text, and view the companion slides.