Audio: Sean O'Driscoll talks online communities

Kathryn Greenhill (Librarian Matters blog) provides her tips on blogging and blog fodder e.g. ideas for blog posts. Kathryn is a well known blogger who provides excellent blogging tips and this is her presentation from Perth PodCamp.

Virtual Worlds: Promise and Perils presentation by Alan Levine for the WA Elearning Showcase (Oct, 2007). Refer to his wiki for his slides and great his links on virtual worlds from this presentation.

A conversation with Alan Levine on the role of New Media Consortium (NMC), the Horizon report, how technology is changing and advice for people on using new technology. We also talk about his upcoming speaking tour of Australia.

Leigh Blackall (Learn Online) has been running fantastic 10 minute online lecture series in New Zealand for Learning communities Aotearoa and I was fortunate to be invited to join some of the sessions. Unfortunately I missed James Farmer's session but I liked the recording so much that Leigh and James were nice enough to grant me permission to convert the audio into a video. Thanks again Leigh and James for giving me permission. I recommend that you make the time to check out Leigh's 10 minute lecture sessions (there are links to both the Elluminate session and audio).

Here are my tips for podcasting based on my knowledge as a podcaster and from my experience teaching others how to podcast. The presentation was originally put together for Port 80 mintalks . This is the audio from my presentation.

Here are my tips for podcasting based on my knowledge as a podcaster and from my experience teaching others how to podcast. The presentation was originally put together for Port 80 mintalks and I have added my audio to the presentation because sound quality on the night was not suitable.

Humorous look at what happens when you take a person who has only ever used a PC to podcast with and now ask her to teach others how to podcast using a Mac. Macs are not supported in our College so professional development with educators normally is done using Moviemaker and Audacity on a PC. The Mac Diary will be a serious of podcasts to document my journey of discovery of podcasting with my MacBook.

Nick Cowie, from nickcowiecom talks about the problems faced with the mobile web in terms of display size of mobile screens, the number of different mobile web browers, how rapidly the mobile web is changing, how people use the mobile web compared to the Internet on a computer, problems faced using the mobile web on a non-qwerty keyboard and the costs of accessing the mobile web. Sales of mobile phones and PDAs capable of accessing the mobile web are increasing, and will continue to do so. The challenges we face as educators will be how to appropriately tap into the mobile web.

This is our discussion on podcasting in education. Present were Michael Coghlan, Trevor Bennet (Edith Cowan University), David Day (Pilbara TAFE), Jenny Heathcote (Swan TAFE), Stuart Knox (Flexible Learning Framework) and Sue Waters (Challenger TAFE).

Sean O'Driscoll, General Manager Community Support & Microsoft MVP, talks about online communities. This interview includes how he became involved with online communities, how to deal with disruptive online community members and the value of online communities to businesses. We also discuss his Community Group Therapy blog, how blogging has helped his work and other Web 2.0 technologies.