challenges to blogging

This is a challenging exercise for me as I rarely have kept journals and what is a blog if not an electronic journal (with no degree of privacy). I usually prefer to do my learning in an interaction with others, be they in person or through their written and spoken words. I find that it is during the interaction that the sparks of thinking flare into coherent ideas and begin to burn with a lasting flame of knowledge. A case in point - see how my solo reflections are more likely to wax into some kind of poetic eloquence which is too too much.

In any case, this is intended to be my reflections on emerging technologies for learning and at the moment I am struggling with what to put into my slideshare presentation. I feel I have tapped the hobby side of life enough with my various takes from my camping trip to Yellowstone so want to capture material more closely related to this course. I fear it will have more artificiality about it as I try to create extra slides to provide enough against which to sync the voice track. Oh well. The learning continues none the less.
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improvement to my last

I will try a hyperlink to the screen capture to see if it will go directly instead of someone having to paste a long url into a browser.
Mudpot

trying jing

I am starting to figure out how to use jing but it is a slow process. I have made my first screen capture and it looks like this:
http://www.screencast.com/users/amethystcam/folders/Jing/media/be013c92-8cd6-4e67-bc15-2a06a0c52c4b

It is a picture of a mudhole at Yellowstone and my plan is to figure out how to record sound to explain what it is. I also have a 15 sec video of a mudhole burbling away and I assume there must be a way to share that with Jing.
At this point, I am going to read the jing welcome guide to learn how to do this stuff since the intuitive way only garnered this simple screen capture.

importing podcasts Take 2

Okay, can't get the ourmedia.org site to actually retrieve the podcast even though they keep sending an email after each upload attempt to say "your file has been published at....".

So now I am falling back on what everyone else has proven to be effective -Podbean.

http://amethystcam.podbean.com/

I have tried to upload this twice - the first time it kept buffering but on take 2 it works. SIGH!

Cheers
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importing podcasts

Hi, I am exploring the ways to share my first podcast. I googled how to podcast and found a site which recommended several free variations of services. The one for the casual/hobbyist recommended using blogger, which I am already doing, and ourmedia for the podcast. So I have created an ourmedia.org acct and have uploaded my podcast to it here:
http://www.ourmedia.org/ia/details/Yellowstonepodcast

Cheers
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lots of great ideas out there

It is fabulous to take a class with people who are really engaged in learning and who have lots of great ideas to add to the mix. One's Personal Learning Environment is definitely enhanced by taking courses such as Emerging Technologies for Learning at U of M. The PLEs of my classmates help me realize the many ways I learn. And. while I am learning new things everyday in the workplace and community, there is an added rigour to being challenged to think in new ways through formal courses. Let's hear it for workplaces which encourage continuous learning through education reimbursement plans which make it affordable for their employees.

Cheers
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