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I’m in the midst of getting my head around the 2nd online course I’m taking this session, U. Manitoba’s “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge“, and am curious to see whether any of the 1,600 other students are using Seesmic.

If you are taking the course but haven’t heard of Seesmic yet, below is an example of what Seesmic is and what it does. I’ve also written up several posts about the application, which you can browse here.

CCK08 Students on Seesmic?Trying to get my head around how to tackle the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course that starts shortly and wondering if there are other CCK08 students on Seesmic.

Setting you your computer to use Seesmic
Claudia notes in the comments area of this post that she has had some difficulties recording a Seesmic clip and wonders if there are any support materials available that outline the configuration process. I’ll look into this further and will post my findings here, but in the meantime I recorded this quick walk-through that outlines the basics.

You can view the recording full screen by clicking on the monitor icon in the lower right-hand corner of the embedded player below, or visit the file on Blip.TV.

I was asked by a work colleague to take the department on a tour of SecondLife at our recent staff meeting and spent a fair bit of time earlier in the week putting it together. Unfortunately it didn’t end up happening, so rather than let a perfectly good presentation go to waste I thought I’d transform it into a video that could be shared on the web.

Given a number of my online colleagues, friends and other contacts have begun to discuss similar questions I would suspect - or at least hope - that this video may prove useful to others as well. I’m also quite interested in exploring more widely the questions I pose in the presentation, so if you have thoughts or experiences in this area please leave a comment or trackback with your thoughts.

Also I haven’t historically had the opportunity to do many presentations so any feedback on how I could improve things would be welcome as well. Roll film…

A colleague of mine has indicated I speak way too fast during parts of the presentation. So in the interests of making sense I’ve uploaded a transcript of the talk to Scribd. This file is available below: