Ok, so, as mentioned yesterday, Seesmic is the latest life sucking tool I've found online (apparently they've received several million dollars worth of funding). It has Twitter like options for following others and replying to them. Here's my seesmic post for today. I found Alan Levine in seesmic as well...replied to his video...but for some reason can't directly link to it here (which unfortunately robs the world of the rich exchange Alan and I had :)). Once you're logged in, you can add friends as you do with twitter and start to respond (with video) to the video posts of others. As a learning tool, it could serve as a slightly different way of handling threaded discussions. As a time wasting tool, it could serve for the exact same purpose it has for me so far!
Posted by gsiemens at February 15, 2008 12:59 PM | TrackBackGeorge - Glad to see you're experimenting with Seesmic...(by the way, your Friday AM look is definitely very Friday AM... :-) ).
We were looking at incorporating this into a remedial accounting course that I'm currently working on...exactly the same idea of replacing text discussion, except here it would be used as a visual HELP! option where students would be able to record the accounting concept/calculation that they are having problems with, providing everyone else in the course with a demonstration of the problem area...someone could then video a quick demo of how to solve the problem...we're hoping the whole "picture paints a 1000 words" aspect would work here, allowing students to be more concise in their descriptions than words would allow...keep letting all of us know how your experiment is going...
Steve
Posted by: Steve at February 15, 2008 2:43 PMSweet, something new to spend time on!
Posted by: Pete at February 15, 2008 7:06 PMHey George,
The problem with video in this form, as you adroitly point out, is time. Text is scan-able (if that's a word) and therefore Twitter appeals to me much more than the potential time-suck of Seesmic. At least if a tweet is irrelevant I can let it go quickly. Notsomuch with this.
But then again...I haven't really played much with it...
Posted by: Will Richardson at February 19, 2008 8:45 PM