I was expecting this to be a small group meeting and more of an open discussion, but at the last minute it turned into a more formal presentation. I used a mash-up of slides from Maricopa and my standard Web 2.0 in the Higher Education Enterprise talk I've given several dozen times to produce a talk related to Platforms for Digital Expression at Penn State. I feel like the talk is finally turning into something that creates both interest and value. I know I had a great time talking to that group.
It was a well attended session that lasted about an hour. There was some time left over for question and answer at the end that I think helped make a difference. I enjoyed the time spent doing this. An archive of the talk is available via Media Site Live. Enjoy and please let me know what you think!
Slides are attached as a PDF. Download file.
Comments (4)
Great presentation, and even better to be able to catch it in syndication ;-)
I'm especially fond of the Mediasite format which happily also includes accelerated audio!(as if you didn't already talk fast enough). Sadly, variable speed playback (VSP) is lacking in most vod/enhanced/podcasts, but is critical for me when viewing extended linear media presentations--(audiobook format excepted).
As a stop gap, I can listen to files in the QT player (which does allow vsp through the AV controls) vs iTunes (which does NOT offer vsp) or in the WMplayer. It's an extra step for the viewer, but makes ETS Talk listenable and therefore, get-more-out-of-it-able (nothing personal!--it's not you, it's me...my brain [and most peoples'] is simply capable of processing faster than humans can yap.)
If this could be scripted/automated...it might be nice to publish an accelerated version (research/experience shows 1.6x-1.8x to be an optimal speed)
I've tagged a good "speeding podcasts" resource here: http://del.icio.us/jdg239/vsp
My comments have been tech vs. content-related, but thanks again for the enjoyable, informative, archived and acceleratable listen.
...now about that camplese-accelerated-blog account setup...
-Joel Galbraith
Posted by Joel Galbraith | May 23, 2007 7:42 PM
Posted on May 23, 2007 19:42
Joel, thanks for the kind words! I do talk way too fast -- mostly to get it all in. The iPod can play back audio at an accelerated rate if it is in audiobook format. I need to look at it to see if it can do podcasts the same way. These are interesting thoughts and something we will explore. Thanks again for the feedback!
Posted by Cole | May 24, 2007 7:05 AM
Posted on May 24, 2007 07:05
Love the slides, but am having trouble getting MSL to work nicely in either Firefox or Safari. That's my problem.
Would love to see some comments here from some who attended - sorry I had to miss it.
Posted by kevin | May 24, 2007 12:43 PM
Posted on May 24, 2007 12:43
Sadly, MSL doesn't work well in most browsers besides MSIE. Otherwise, it's a decent service. We used to use it on the Mac (when I worked primarily on a Mac) and Camino does a decent job with it (the latest version of Safari works ok with it). Firefox hates it though.
Cole, thanks for the great presentation as it gives us at the Libraries a great way to assess what we really need to move on now and what can wait. we have such varying degress of expertise in this realm that it will be interesting to see where we are a year from now (especially since we will also have our CMS in full production by that time as well).
Posted by Andrew Calvin | May 25, 2007 8:28 AM
Posted on May 25, 2007 08:28