Brendan’s Learning 2.0 Project

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Well, this week is about checking out some image generators and I haven’t done much of that yet. I went over to jellymuffin and had a go, just mucking around. Here is what I came up with…

Myspace Picture Generator

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I came across searchme the other day, and particularly like the way you can create a stack and then share it with others. I have never seen anything like it before, and it’s a really cool way of keeping abreast of a bunch of like websites all from one place – like I said, very unique. As a sample, I have included below my own stack: some of my favourite edublogs:

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I think I’m not alone when I say that I used to think that blogs were mostly just people waxing lyrical, venting or perhaps at best some journo’s extension of their conventional news column. I’ve dabbled with writing blogs myself in the past, but more as a personal journalling exercise than any real endeavour to spark a trans-continental dialogue with others. I must admit that I am guilty too of considering blogs – very erroneously – as more or less uni-directional in the same way that conventional news is: the blogger blogs and some other people out there read it. How wrong I was! Read more »

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This site (speechable.com) sounds pretty cool and does allow very easy captioning of photos. Adding the captions takes only a minute or two and then you can post it to Facebook, del.ici.ous or wherever, or you can email it, or embed it.

It does have some detractors, though. I couldn’t get the embedding to work in this post; for some reason, globalteacher changed the embedded coding every time I saved my post. Also, the email function simply emails you the url. Right-clicking and saving the captioned image is the easiest way to grab it back after your work is done, however one should be aware that the captioning process seems to seriously downgrade the image quality.

Has its ups and downs…

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Week Two comes to an end, and again I found myself spending quite a bit more time than just a token 15 minutes a day playing with some of these nifty diversions. In my mind, photo sharing seems to be one of the major ways that Web 2.0 can facilitate new methods of communicating and collaborating for existing networks and social groupings of people – people whose main methods of communication may currently be more conventional (phone, face to face, email). Read more »

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Well, that’s another problem solved, thanks to the Flickr help forum. I have now been able to register this blog on my Flickr account, with a little tweak of my blog settings. I have to say that help forums can be really, really helpful – lucky since that’s what they’re there for!

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Here is my attempt to add some Flickr photos onto my blog. I have to say I attempted to set up my blog on Flickr, and while I gave it the correct username and password and API code for this blog, it keeps saying there is no blog associated with this username and password. Strange.

Nevermind, for now I will play with embedding a Flickr badge instead (see below). Hopefully in the next day or two I will sort out what’s happening with setting up this blog to work with Flickr as it should.

www.flickr.com b.vanderkley’s Sky, Moon & Clouds photoset

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So I have begun to explore and learn about Flickr. It looks really good, although at this point I think its main application for me will be more for private use than in my teaching. Of course, you never know…

What I love so much about Flickr is that it is everything that I wanted in terms of photo sharing when I joined Facebook last year. I joined Facebook mainly just to share my photos with friends, not having heard of Flickr at that point. Flickr is the photo sharing features of Facebook – and some – without all the other nonsense (and such a lot of nonsense there is on Facebook, I’ve found).

I have worked my way through the Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials (really straight forward and explanatory; a good starting point for anyone new to Flickr) and am now feeling fairly confident with the basics. I actually found that I in my own little exploration I had already done some of the stuff covered in the tutorials. So now I am all set, totally Flickr-ed up and ready to go…

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I have been keeping an eye on Mike Temple’s blog since I added it to my blogroll and also in my Google Reader. It is such a brilliant starting point and helpful resource for all things blog. He recently posted this video he found that’s all about why we should be using Web 2.0 tools in education. It’s quite thought-provoking and a good “in a nutshell” coverage of some of the potential benefits of Web 2.0 for our students.

View a higher quality version of this video here.

Thanks David Truss of Pair-a-Dimes for your Thoughts for creating this great video.

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