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I'm a member of a freelancers' association know as the Halton Peel Communicators Association and last night we put on a a social media workshop. It was fun even though I didn't get to sit in on the other three workshop leaders' presentations. Check out Donna's report on hers here – http://trafcom.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/linkedin-101-for-entrepreneurs-and-business-professionals.html, and Sue's here – http://getitwrite.ca/2009/10/29/twitter-tips-hpca-session/  Rob's may come later.

In an unthinking moment I had agreed to cover audio and video on the web, and the closer we got to the workshop, the more I began to fret. I've had more frustration than success with iMovie and GarageBand, and I've never used MovieMaker or SoundRecorder. I won't say I panicked, but I did regret agreeing.

Donna Papacosta blogged recently on leaving your comfort zone – http://trafcom.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/leaving-your-comfort-zone.html – and as an organizer of the evening, she had put me squarely in that position. I was not in my comfort zone. Why oh why hadn't I asked to do the Twitter presentation, I groused to myself, or the blogging one, or even the one on LinkedIn. But no-o-o, I had to say "yes" to audio and video.

It turned out to be pretty good. The day before, still out of my comfort zone, I made a list of the things I did know how to do with audio and video on the web. Turns out people were delighted to learn how to embed videos and audio clips into Facebook or their blogs. They were also happy to find out that they could make little animated videos at Animoto – http://animoto.com/ – just by uploading photos. They found screencasting interesting and looked at the Twitter-associated tool Screenr, – http://screenr.com/ – and some examples of what I've done with Jing – http://www.jingproject.com/ In fact, you can see a collection of the links I referred to in my JNthWEB wiki here – http://jnthweb.pbworks.com/MultiModal

So it was a good night, a night where I discovered that my audience was happy to learn a number of ways to play with audio and video online, and I was happy to share what I knew with them!

Joan Vinall-Cox
JNthWEB Consulting – http://jnthweb.ca/
Social Media & Learning
Halton Peel Communicators Association – http://www.hpcaonline.org/

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Gratitude and acknowledging what I have been given are important values for me, and, while I appreciate the space I have here on Blogger, my first web community, my first web home, was Elgg/EduSpaces. On my most recent birthday, I wrote about it, and the community I am/was part of there:

A year earlier, I had described why I liked Elgg/EduSpaces so much, and quoted some student comments about it.

Now the EduSpaces community is being migrated to another home, and I am grateful that Elgg’s creators have set up that solution, but I can’t help feeling that something important is being lost, so I am grieving.

Change happens; I know that. And some of my EduSpaces Friends show up on Twitter, and I will find their blogs so I can continue to follow them through RSS, but my first web home, where I learned so much about web possibilities, will be dismantled at the end of this month.

I’ve already have a number of web spots outside of my elgg/EduSpaces nest, for example this blog, but I will miss the nurturing I experienced in my first web community, and I thank Dave, Ben and Misja for what they have given me, my Friends, and my fellows.

Every so often I see a blog post that I want to not just save in my del.icio.us account – http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis – but I want to actively learn how to use. LifeHacker‘s Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks is one of those. The list starts at 10, and, although I’d re-order a couple of the tricks, all of them are more than useful, exciting even.
Here are some of my favorites:

There are other tricks – go to Lifehacker – Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks – to see the rest!

Through Jane Hart’s Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day, http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2008/01/waholizer.html here’s me, as seen through the Warholizer Give it a try;->