A new look for the blog…
5 11 2006As James Farmer has been busy upgrading edublogs to the spiffy new full-version of Wordpress-Mu (finally at 1.0), I thought I’d take the opportunity to upgrade the look of this blog as well. Ever since I posted my wonderful graduation iPhinished iPod silhouette I’ve wanted to get around to doing a custom header, so I’ve swapped to the more dynamic Regulus theme, minimised the many links in the blogroll, created a header-image I’m happy with and with any luck will carve out a little more time to blog here in the near future.
The only thing that I couldn’t do (which is a limitation of a mulitple-blog installation like Mu) is edit the template so I could put my Creative Commons license details in the footer. However, I think the ‘Some Rights Reserved’ page-link as part of the header is a reasonable work-around for now.
Also, I realised today that four days ago, Tama’s eLearning Blog celebrated its first birthday! I should really rename this my Flexible Delivery or Mixed Mode blog, but I think I’ll stick with eLearning for now since it sums up where I was coming from in my thinking when the blog started. It’s been a fun journey so far …
I’d stick with Tama’s E-Learning Blog, those of us reading from the real world, we know what that means. Tama’s Mixed Mode Blog sounds like uniwankspeak, while I became quite conversant in it at my time at Murdoch, I seem to have forgotten most of what I learnt.
Isn’t slide share great though! I started playing with it last week, it may however effect the way I put my slides together, as they rarely make any sense without me standing next to them talking. The ability to sync up a podcast can’t be far away though. Maybe a podcast with the magic chime, …when you hear the bell ring, change the slide.
The name shall remain then … far be it more me to speak the “uniwankspeak” … well, perhaps a little!
Slideshare is nifty. Synched with podcasts would be very useful, but as you say a chime in podcasts to signal a slide click would achieve someting similar and with less bandwidth. When Lectopia used to present the slides and audio separately (it’s all screencasts now) I used the “turn the page” chime from those read-along books with tapes I used to love when I was a young ‘un!
Noice
I should get around to announcing it sometime soon huh!