Adding utube into my blog

i am going to try and add the link leigh sent me into this blog

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCCMKl8MFM]

jacquie u tube

I have managed to add audio to a small clip on inserting date etc using camtasia This is on utube .

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jacquiehayes&search=Search

Interview with Dave Bremmer

Dave says: gidday jacquie jacquieh says: Hi dave jacquieh says: sorry about the delay Dave says: not a prob – it’s only 8:35 that’s not late 

jacquieh says: Dave I am going to start by asking you some questions about Flexible Learning. jacquieh says: There are not too many so i will get started. Dave says: fire away Dave says: oh – aren’t you forgetting something 

jacquieh says: What is Flexible Learning to you? Dave says: flexible learning to me is an entire range of stuff involving adapting a course to the learners needs Dave says: that includes delivery style and methods, taking care of multiple learning styles … Dave says: allowing students to work in ways that suit their abilities, lifestyle and ways or learning 

Dave says: that’s about it – there’s obviously millions of details in there jacquieh says: Dave from a teachers point of view, can you see the use of flexible learning in your style of teaching? Dave says: the whole point of flexi learning is to adapt your style of teaching … but yeah I do. There are serious limitations which come into play, mutually exclusive things which mean that you can NOT be all things to all people. But I do see the “use of flexible learning”, and I’d make a pretty strong case for implementing flexible learning as much as I can within constraints Dave says: over to you  

jacquieh says: dave do you agree that the way we can improve flexibility is to carry out different learning activities of a course in a different location, i.e. in our Community Learning Centres outside the physical Campus? Dave says: that will add to our flexibility – yes. Also making use of video-conferencing to rural areas via the school network, and other things which increase our “contact surface” – I mean increase ways in which students can attend our courses jacquieh says: that’s cool, as i have mentioned before, we have students who would love to do courses with the Otago Polytechnic but due to location and circumstances, are not able to get into the campus so this would be a great way of coming to them. Dave says: yes – and I run distance courses for people who want to do that work at home. But the CLC’s would/could offer access to equipment which they may not have (some courses need 1G RAM) and also offer some tutor support which is often why people hate distance 

jacquieh says: What are your thoughts of improving flexibility in communication with a course? Dave says: mmmm that’s kind of an “apple pie” question. Increasing flexibility in communication within a course is always a good thing. But the communication needs to be relevent, appropriate and actually of some use to the course. Not all communication methods fit that bill for all courses and all people Dave says: in fact – I’d almost say that NO one communication method is suitable for everything jacquieh says: I have to agree with you there as well, but do you think there is a need to use technology in the implication of Flexible Learning?,  

Dave says: ummmm …. I’m going to be picky and pedantic here Dave says: NO Dave says: hang-on Dave says: by technology I am assuming you mean electronic and probably computer based, probably internet based technology (I am not counting pen, whiteboards, or chainsaws here – these have all been listed as technology in the NZ curriculum discussions) … 

Dave says: I am quite comfortable with the idea that a flexible course may be designed in such a way that computer/internet simply isn’t appropriate for that particular occurance. – so NO i do not accept that a flexible course NEEDS technology. It should be critically assessed and considered as a tool but using technology automatically bad practice Dave says: so  Dave says: I would say that flexible learning does not NEED technology but technology is advantageous to many flexible courses (and non flexible ones) Dave says: hows that? 

jacquieh says: Brilliant, thank you and now for the last one What are your thoughts of Blogging and using Wiki Encyclopaedia? Dave says: wiki first – if you mean wikipedia … its handy if you treat it with caution and know enough to identify the crap because there IS crap and utterly false things in that. But there’s good material too.  Dave says: still with Wiki: if you mean the general “wiki” as a way of collaboratively building an article, then it has got a place. BUT the whole model breaks down when you get significant disagreements among the authors. I believe the only thing to do then is meet offline. I’ve seen wiki’s suggested for all kinds of things which I believe they are inappropriate for.  Dave says: Their use is best as a way of collaboratively making documents 

Dave says: Blogs (and journals – journals are private blogs, in a course often shared with instructor but private beyond them). They have a place. But you need to consider why you are using them. What is the point? What are the learning objectives – and are there better ways of using the objectives … Dave says: We use journals in our customer service course in out technician’s certificate. It’s an excellent way of getting students to do some self-reflection and dabble with some meta-cognition stuff … thinking about how they think about the issue. Dave says: With much of the more technical topics – such as the one you’re doing, I just don’t see much value in them. I do see some value actually – but not until you have achieved a significant skill level. There is great value in a technician or engineer using a blog to reflect on their practice and the problems at hand.  Dave says: But at the level that I am teaching, it’s more important to get the basic skills down so that you have a foundation on which to reflect. 

Dave says: I think many (most) people using blogs in courses haven’t done enough thinking about their purpose. We’re still in the early days when they are a “cool” thing and people are not critically evaluating their use. Which to me is weird, because I just see blogs as a slight variation on stuff that’s quite old Dave says: mmmm – that’s about it i think for that Dave says: oh Dave says: one other thing 

Dave says: I am very VERY hesitant about using public blogs for course work. I think there is often a danger of putting the students in a risky situation. Or the institution in a risky situation. There’s two risks. There is a legal one – people have been held libel for online comments. There was a famous case between
england and aussie years ago (demon internet I think).  Dave says: And that can affect our institution AND the student – but also Dave says: I am very concerned about students being put at risk for several reasons. Students may say something which results in receiving significant abuse or other problems from someone who takes a dislike to the comment. They may also say something which, in hindsight a few years later, was just DUMB and they now disagree with it. Now doing that privately is one thing – but  Dave says: we should be encouraging students to take risks with their thinking and extend it. There have been many well documented cases of people loosing out on a job application because of their online presence earlier in life. Private blogs (private to the institution or class) reduce the risk to students. Asking, or worse requiring, public blogs is, I believe, putting naive students at risk 

Dave says: And then there are issues which are quite inappropriate for a class which should NEVER go public. Imagine reflective talk in a counselling class, or midwifery. There’s risk that needs to be fully considered Dave says: that’s enough of that rant Dave says: that’s it – me done with blogs  Dave says: man I’m a bad speller when ranting [note spelling has been fixed in this publication to allow easier reading] 

jacquieh says: Dave I would like to Thank You for your interview today and your participation of helping me with my Designing FlexibleCourse assignment. It is great to get an insight from a teachers point of view and I sure have learnt alot from our interview of the pit fall in blogging, so once again thank you for your time and knowledge you have shared with me on this subject.  jacquieh says: I look forward to we talking to you again some. jacquieh says: cheers for today Dave says: no prob – now that you’ve added me just sing out 

Dave says: one other thing Dave says: didn’t bronwyn go over getting ethical approval and signoff for interviews? I’d hate to see you missing the marks for that jacquieh says: sorry about htis dave jacquieh says: Jacquie Hayes interviewed David Bremmer on Tuesday 20th March 2007. 

jacquieh says: Appliciable to: Design in ‘flexible learning Course 07 Dave says: oooh kay not quite what I expected but that’s cool – sometime you should ask bronwyn what the normal processes are from a research ethics point of view. really not a problem – I just thought you’d skipped a step which would bite you in the marks. jacquieh says: comments by Dave Bremer 9.45am March 20th 2007 

jacquieh says: dave can you please confirm that it is ok for me to put this interview on my blogg at this address Jacquiehayes.wordpress.com Dave says: sure – providing it’s either the raw text (minor changes such as spelling is fine). If you edit it then I’d like to proof it first with the right to redact/re-edit before approval BTW I would never have agreed to video being put on youtube. jacquieh says: That great thanks dave as it will be the raw text and if i edit it i will send you the text for you to proof it first. many thanks jacquie 

Dave says: cool – thanks (sorry – had to pop out for a bit) good luck with the report =========================== cheers DaveDave Bremer
– Senior Lecturer
Programme Manager for the computer technician’s “Certificate in IT Service & Support”Otago Polytechnic
Forth St
Dunedin NZ 9001

Screencasting

I’m becoming more and more interested in the idea of screencasting.

Looking through Youtube (as just one of many DIY video publishing sites) there are just SO many!

Here’s is one on Google Skethup:

I think I will start using Camstudio to make my own screenrecordings and screencast them out on Youtube as well!

Here is a demo on how to use Camstudio:

But videos only work for priveledged people with broadband internet. It might be a good idea to create a series of images, and add text in between them so people can print it out. Here is a demo on how to do that

I will need to create a photo sharing account with flickr so that I have somewhere to load my screen images to, so that I can display them here on this blog using the image icon in the edit bar. The image icon will ask me for a URL.. which I can get after I load my pictures to flickr.