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September 21, 2005
Online Communities: From BBSes to Blogs and Beyond
I just finished my speaking engagement here in Glasgow; it was a standing-room-only group of Scottish educators involved in technology. I put together a 50-minute presentation to allow for 10 minutes of questions, but discovered that the session actually ran only 45 minutes, with 15 minutes for people to get to Mark Prensky's keynote. Because of that, I had to skip over some of my final slides. No harm, no foul, I suppose. The audience was very enthusiastic as I talked about the history of online communities and recent developments in participatory media, including blogging, podcasting, videoblogging and tagging. There were a few humorous snafus getting my Powerpoint to work. Fortunately, the problem this time wasn't that I was using a PC rather than my trustworthy Mac - it was because they were using a version of OpenOffice with a Gaelic operating system! Fortunately, a Gaelic speaker came to my rescue and helped me figure out which menu options to select.
Here's a podcast of my presentation (approx. 10 megs); meanwhile, this is the Powerpoint presentation.
Posted by acarvin at September 21, 2005 9:28 AM
Listen to a computer-generated podcast of this article
