You need to click on the poster video, which then loads a qt movie which says “click to open in QT player”, clicking that launches QT player, then clicking the white square loads the video (the video isn’t loaded on QT player open). The black square pauses the video. Clicking the white will restart the video from the beginning – I have not been able to get my scripting sorted out so that it will pause the child movie rather than reload it.
Bit of a bee in my bonnet from a brief exchange during last weekends Art and Design Graduate Research Conference at RMIT. It was just an aside about Web 2 things not being about learning, which I disagreed with. I used the example of blogs as very valuable learning environments and very basic to Web 2 architectures. The conversation didn’t go far, as it wasn’t relevant to what needed to be discussed, but I was struck by my co-respondent’s comment that they’d also asked their students to blog and it was apparent from their demeanor that it had not been successful.
Quick observations (as I am tired of people introducing blogging only to find it doesn’t ‘work’).
This person teaches and practices design. I would think that, like all other academics, they tend to get students to produce things that they themselves do. Eg write essays (since we publish), present a tute paper (conference presentation), sit an exam (good empiricists), and so on. In TV you get them to make content of some form, and as the academic you have made TV content too. Similarly in design disciplines you don’t generally set them briefs outside of your own practice. So if you don’t blog, why ask students to blog? That’s like asking them to write essays where your own discipline, and practice, doesn’t actually do any essay writing. Why does this matter? Well, in my case (humanities) my students have had approximately 12 years of training in writing, and at least 4 in very specialised ‘how to write essay’ training. A blog is not an essay. It is a different form, so pointing students to blogs and asking them to blogs is akin to pointing my humanities students to a sketch book and asking them to ‘sketch’, then because no one actually sketches, or knows what or how to sketch, I can declare that sketching, visual diaries, and all that don’t work.
However if I sketched myself, and had a visual diary, I could probably work out how to integrate its use. Explain why it matters. Scaffold its use so that you get over that bump of resistance until the practice becomes embedded, and so on. So the method is just a nonsense. In the same way you can’t point a group of fine art students to an essay, ask them to write a 5000 word critical essay, and then because the engagement with argument and theory is so bad declare that essay’s don’t work!
Oh, what I’ve written above is two points. Muddled up. The first is that blogging needs to be taught and if it isn’t taught then of course it is not going to ‘work’. The second is why teach practices that you don’t use yourself? If you don’t keep a notebook or journal, then why ask your students to? If you don’t blog why expect your students to? This is not about legitimacy but literacy, because it is the literacy of the notebook, diary, and blog that you need to teach and you only have that literacy by doing.
Lastnight, doing half thought things on the PowerBook (cleaning up files, etc) I think I deleted my iPhoto library while also having iPhoto running. Destroyed the library. That’s OK. Quit iPhoto, open Trash, there it is, move it back. Open iPhoto, no photos. mmm. Now, at this point I should have done a Google search so that I would know I could launch iPhoto with option + command to rebuild the database. But I didn’t do that. Instead I grabbed the backup on the external firewire drive and used that. Same problem. Now it is time for the Google search. Tried rebuilding it, still same result. Eventually I move the photos and reimport the lot into iPhoto (which loses all the metadata, albums, etc). At least I’ve got the photos (so I think). Uh oh, only thumbnails. None of the originals. Today I realise why. My backup on the firewire has all the folders for the original images but the folders themselves are empty. One of those painful permissions problems where my backup software wrote out the folder structure but not the files themselves. I have another backup in the office, but that could well have exactly the same problems. I have downloaded a trial of some recovery software to see what it can find, but I don’t like my chances, there just isn’t enough free space on my hard drive to not have overwritten the original files. At the moment I might have lost 5 years of photos. I’d prefer not to think of what they’re of.
From the videovortex email list:
NOW ONLINE::: http://www.curatorforoneday.nl
Become Curator for One Day!!!
In the period of October 20th – February 3rd anyone can become a curator. By means of a specially developed website one can choose a maximum of six video works to be shown in the gallery space of the Institute as part of the exhibition Video Vortex on a day one selects. Through the online catalog of the Institute or by visiting the mediatheque at the Institute one can make a selection from the more than 2000 video works. The only condition is that a statement be given for the selection. This statement and the video works selected are then screened for the rest of the visitors for a whole day.
When I set up this domain I installed Joomla to manage the site. Partly because Dreamhost had a one click install for Joomla, and partly because last time I played in drupal I never quite understood which why was up. Joomla, on the other hand, I had running quickly.
Well, have now migrated to drupal, which means all the old content that was at vogmae.net.au is gone. I’ve stuck it in the drupal installation (well most of it, still trying to find time to move content across) at vogmae.net.au/drupal messy? Yes. Why? Well in my university context there are plenty of people who do things in drupal, but not many who use joomla, so the on ground expertise has been missed. Then there’s the ability in drupal to create custom content types which is just very nice. So I can have a page type to archive vogs, essays, and so on. I imagine there’s some way to do this in joomla, probably some plugin, and you probably need to pay for it. But I sit right next to someone who is building some very nice things in drupal, so, you know, install a couple of drupal modules and I’ve been able to do most of the rest through trial and error. Oh, and it is trivial to publish to custom urls in drupal, which cleans up the site very nicely.
I think things will stay where they are now. I hope.
Sunday in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens.
Sony Ericsson K750i
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You need to click on the poster video, which then loads a qt movie which says “click to open in QT player”, clicking that launches QT player, then clicking the white square loads the video (the video isn’t loaded on QT player open) and at the moment you have to click the white square again to actually start playing the video. The black square pauses the video.
I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 recently, and while poking around the dashboard I clicked the More link on the Incoming Links list. There were other blogs listed there before the upgrade, so I was wondering where they’d gone. (One of the most significant innovations of blogs has been the trackback as it is a rudimentary – though reasonably effective – tool to discover links in. Links in are hidden in HTTP and HTML, yet are crucial since link architectures are everything.) So, I click this and it doesn’t do a Technorati search but a new Google blog search for links to my blog URL. The resulting list can be sorted based on time, and you can subscribe this this via RSS, but you can also set up an alert to new links emailed to you. This is really handy, because as I wrote above link discovery is important in blogging. Knowing that someone has linked means you read them, you may link back, and the link ecology evolves.
I’ve put online the slides from my talk in Brussels. They don’t make a lot of sense without the commentary (the talks that day were all recorded so I’ll chase up if they’re going to turn up anywhere). But they’re online since that’s the best way I have of archiving and disseminating these ideas. So, here it is, Facetted Video, the slides.
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