Holy smokes, it is 2010, and despite all of the dreams (the heck with flying cars) we are still typing on keyboards designed to make typing difficult… so aren’t we supposed to be far into the future where we talk to our computers?

Voice recognition and identification software has been on the advance in development, and someday perhaps we will have the Star Trek ability to talk to our computer? While there is no LCARS app as pictured above, there is a fun interface you can poke at with your 20th century mouse http://www.lcars.org.uk/. Go at it.

Dragon Dictation has been at this game a long time– they’ve just come out with a free iPhone app that I gave a brief spin with tonight.

It is simple enough. You press record and start talking, getting some sound levels as feedback:

And when you click the big ole “DONE”: button, you get the text, which you can edit, as well as send to email as well as SMS (ostensibly you can go directly to services like facebook and twitter).

Lacking anything meaningful thing to say, I decided to try reciting something. Since I had actually gotten nostalgic the other day, and over lunch watched an episide of thre old Star Trek on DVD, the I, Mudd episode featuring the irascible Harry Mudd .

I have a thing for Harry Mudd- I used him as a metaphor somehow in a 2005 TCC keynote presentation.

It is the scene where Mudd and Kirk met down Norman the android with a logic twist:

Kirk: Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that. Everything Harry tells you is a lie.

Harry Mudd: Now, listen to this carefully, Norman. I am lying.

Norman: You say you are…lying, but if everything you say is a lie then you are telling the truth but you cannot tell the truth because everything you say is a lie but you lie, you tell the truth, but you cannot for you lie…illogical! Illogical!

So I did my best to recite these lines (leaving off the cheesy acting that makes Kirk et al so camp), and this is what I got:

Everything Harry tells you why. Remember that everything Harry tells you

what’s new this carefully Normand

You say you are buying that everything you say is alive and you’re telling the truth but you cannot tell the truth because everything you say is the line but you live to tell the truth but you cannot tell for you like a logical illogical

Okay, so it is pretty bad… but then again consider what it was able to do- a free mobile app, that took my likely bad reading voice… and, well it is easy to say it is not quite there yet– if you expect perfect dictation.

I then thought to try another test, to see if it could transcribe the sound from a recorded video. I held up the phone to my computer, but the next few efforts failed (I got a connection failure). The work is being done apparently over the net, and maybe my connection went fluttery.

Given Google’s inroads to voice and what it is rolling into its new Nexus app — is it getting closer to Star Trek, or not?

And what would you do with voice dictation on a mobile? The obvious seems to be capturing that brilliant idea when it pops in your head, which seems so silly and cliche, are the other compelling ideas besides getting out of typing?

Computer, interpret!

UPDATE: The link to a technology expert in Chris Lott’s comment below justifies voice recognition!

I cannot remember if I started participating in it maybe in 1999 or 2000 when it was really a discussion forum based. Since it has always been based out of the University of Hawaii, it was often called the “Hawaiian” virtual conference, which meant the only umbrella drinks on the beach were in your mind.

It was at a 2003 League for Innovation Conference that I first met in person Bert Kimura, who got me more involved by getting my then employer, the Maricopa Community Colleges, on board as an institutional participants, meaning for a reasonable fee, we could register anyone in the system to participate at the conference, so our office could offer it internally for free.

Since then Bert has become a good friend and colleague; we hiked together when I was in hawaii (for real) for the 2005 NMC Conference and I spent a week at Bert’s home last September during my visit to Japan. It is these real connections that have always made the online networking really pay off.

In 2004 I did one of my favorite presentations for TCC on photoblogging, Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images.

I had worked with an art teacher that had his students use photoblogs for sharing and discussion their graphics work. At the time, I was really positive about a now relict service called Buzznet and what was maybe a more active, and much more international service, Fotolog (and what do you know, my photos are still there, 5 years later!). The other key event was I started also looking at this new service called “flickr”…. and you know the rest of the story.

The memorable part of that TCC 2005 session was where I presented. After committing to presenting, I realized I was going to be in San Francisco for a project meeting (this was for the beginning of the NMC’s Pachyderm project). The conference then (and now) used Elluminate, so I was standing in the hallway of a hotel, outside a conference room where the meeting was going on, using the NMC wireless hub, perhaps looking like a strange peson talking into a laptop… the funny part was when some other meeting room opened up, and all of a sudden the hall was full of people talking loudly, jostling, and I think the TCC participants could hear the sounds of the toilets flushing from the rest room I was near. My colleague Cynthia Calongne seems to think this was inspirational (she herself has been a regular outstanding presenter at TCC).

Yet, my favorite presentation at TCC was the keynote I did in 2005, Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that Not Widely Distributed Future where I tread to weave a picture of the future using that nutty pirate from Star Trek and Wired Magazine’s “Wired, Tired, Expired” theme (which itself is not expired) to talk about what the future of technology looked like in 2005. Ironically, it was in prep for this conference that I first came across this person at Penn State University named Cole who was doing some interesting things by grading online student work on an iPod.

The other keynoter that year was some woman named “Clinton”. I think she was married to someone of importance.

Today’s entire, now rambling blog post, came because I thought of good old Harry Mudd last night when I got the TCC notification for the conference’s launch today. When I got nostalgic to look back at my presentation, I realized by link pointed to materials that were sitting on an old maricopa server in an archaic wiki format (UseMod) which was not even working anymore.

I knew this was not a major problem, since I always store my source materials on my backup hard drive, and I found not only a folder of the images I had used, but also a document that was my speaking script (that must be the most organized I ever was, it has time estimates per slide).

So it was with very little effort, just some cut and paste for the captions, to post this presentation as a flickr set:

with notes as captions… and all which then plays pretty with CoolIris.

Too bad I later thought last night (plus it was late, time for bed) as I had no audio. But I did! Searching my own blog, I found I had recorded my audio using a small MP3 recorder– I was able to find this because I have my own personal record of what I have done since 2004- this blog. I found the post I made after the presentation. It also seems to still be in the LearningTimes archive.

Anyhow, this was the longest pre-amble ever to say I am excited about this week’s TCC Conference. Especially rewarding is that this year’s keynotes include two innovative people that were on a list I had suggested to Bert as keynotes– both are woman (my belated Ada Lovelace birthday gift?) and both are from outside the US. I am looking forward today to listen to Sue Water’s keynote on “Global Collaboration in the Web 2.0 World” and tomorrow is Barbara Dieu speaking on “Interacting to Learn and Learning to Interact”.

So while April showers may bring flowers (actually we are expected to have snow this week), it also brings a great online conference every year.

We’re wondering where winter is, as high pressure over the southwest has our temps in the mid 60s in the day, and barely below 50 at night, maybe 20 degrees warmer than it ought to be. And there has not been significant precipitation here in Arizona since October. We want snow, but there nearest moisture must be 1000 miles away.

Even the last week at Maricopa, the internal email dropped off to almost nil as most made an early exit, and my major accomplishment on my last day (Thursday) was cleaning my office (meaning trashing piles of papers in my desk or shoving important things into an unorganized drawer). With a notice that our carpets were to be cleaned over break, I even got rid of a bunch of crap under the desk, and tried to detangle the mess of cords and cables from an assortment of laptops, hard drives, speakers, extra monitors, audio speakers, video camera, periphials, that I rustle around. It was cable hell under there, and I got them pretty well tidied and bound up more neatly. I know entropy works in my office clutter.

But while most people are slowing their life down and spending time with family, the spammers are still running their race pace. 36 hours away from email, and the ratio of real mail to total was about 3 / 127. Boy do I appreciated Thunderbird’s spam filters. And here on the blog, the in vain efforts of spammers has been on the rise lately, and the pile of dead spam roaches is growing higher outside the protective wall of the Word Press Spam Karma 2 plugin.

Ah, the smell of dead spam frying in napalm.

But enough of that… I’m expecting to be engaged next week in mostly non-bog worthy activity (picture a hammock), so I am mulling over blog year 2005 for some highlights and favorite posts. (Ok, D’Arcy inspired me to comb through my archives):

• Build Your Own DeliciousFurlBagConnotea Marklet Maker (Jan 13, 2005). The first appearance of the MultiPost Bookmarket Maker, now up to maybe 17 different social bookmark sites in the current tool.
• Skypecasted Today, Some Other Cast Tomorrow (Jan 24, 2005) Skype is for real- an hour plus flawless audio chat with Teemu in Finland.
• Foibles of my First Pod… er, iRiverCast (Jan 25, 2005). The technology actually owrked doing a video iChat presentation from my office in Arizona to the EDUCAUSE meeting in New Orleans, for a session on the NMC Horizon Project.
• Helen is Coming To Town! (Feb 23, 2005). Helen Barrett, the “Grandmother” of ePortfolios comes to Maricopa for a successful ePort Dialogue Day.
• Ocotillo Presentation Under The Belt (Mar 7, 2005). At the Innovations 2005 Conference, our presentation on Ocotillo went great; the conference environment itself was dull, dreadful and saved only by being in Times Sqaure.
• Out and About At MIT (Mar 12, 2005). A visit to MIT is magical and eye-opening– doing an invited presentation was another story, but ti went well.
• A Lamb Comes to Phoenix (Mar 29, 2005) Friend and colleague Brian Lamb comes to Phoenix for a dialogue day on learning objects and wikis
• Xxxxxxx Xx or Xxx! Copyright Slap from the Ripley’s Folks (Apr 6, 2005). Don’t use that phrase online, ever.
• New Feed2JS Mirror and Some India Students Feed Aggregating (Apr 7, 2005) Our code gets some good use by students on the other side of the globe.
• Harry Mudd and the TCC 2005 Keynote (Apr 21, 2005). A one hour keynote presentation for the TCC 2005 Worldwide Online Conference: “Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that Not Widely Distributed Future”.
• That was a little too easy (Apr 26, 2005) Migrating this blog from MovableType to WordPress took about 5 minutes, and loving it ever since.
• Podless No More (thanks Mom!) (Apr 28, 2005) After months of complaining, I finally get an iPod.
• WordPress Search Bookmarklet (May 4, 2005). Well I thought it wa suseful, never heard if anyone else did.
• In Print/Web: “Internet Audio: Can You Hear/Talk to Me Now? Good.” (May 9, 2005) The Spring 2005 issue of the mcli Forum hits the web streets, with an article on podcasting and a feed with my audio interviews with 20 some colleagues.
• My First (sloppy) ScreenCast (May 12, 2005) I am waiting on the Oscar nomination.
• What a Day! (May 17, 2005) Our biggest and most successful Ocotillo retreat ever; nearly 200 gather at South Mountain Community College for a day full of technology and guests Richard Baranuik and Larry Johnson.
• Learning Objects R.I.P. (May 24, 2005) Maybe it was not exactly this date, but Learning Objects sure have waned this year. (“I’m not quite dead yet”!).
• Technology Firehose at San Diego State (May 24, 2005) An invited visit to SDSU, getting to hang out with the legendary Bernie Dodge.
• When Was Your Blog-Ha Moment? (May 27, 2005). My most ‘successful’ meme, maybe went as far as 5 people.
• I Rode the Wiki! (Jun 15, 2005). I have the photo of the most famous bus in Hawaii.
• Five Minutes of Fame (NMC Conference) (Jun 17, 2005) My gig on Feed2JS, done with S5, got a gong in Hawaii. It felt good.
• Cat Diaries (NMC Presentation) (Jun 18, 2005) – a packed small room audience, way too much content, and the most ever I twisited Blogger into creating- More Than Cat Diaries.
• Four Full Days at PSU (Jul 14, 2005) I’m at Littany Lion country for the EDUCAUSE Instructional Technology Leadership Program 2005. My presentation on Living at the Crossroads of IT&ID was fun to create, fun to present, and slightly missed the mark. Live and learn, eh?
• Conference Bagged (Aug 7, 2005). I’m not crazy about conference bags… To date, on flickr, my flickr meme tag of conferencebag has a total of 3 photos, and 2 of them mine.
• SAC 2005 Session on Collaboration Tools (Aug 10, 2005) Sharing the presentation stage at the Snowmass conference is Stephen Downes, Phil Long, and little ole me.
• Conversations: Tree People and Cave Dwellers (Aug 24, 2005) and Distributed Conversations: More Than Four Reasons (Aug 16, 2005), and A Tale of Technology & Two Organizations: CNN vs Education (sep 5, 2005). These barkings got some of the most comments ever (a whopping 10+ each).
• More Platefulls: The Ocotillo Sandwich Split (Sep 13, 2005) We manage to pull off two large events on the same day.
• Dusting Off Crusty Old Software (Oct 11, 2005) How fun! A 10 year old project still has interest and users.
• RSS Mixers (Oct 12, 2005) Lots of feedback on this tool summary.
• Me 2.0 (Oct 18, 2005) One of the silliest things I have ever written gets some of the most comments ever.
• Running / Blogging / Running (Oct 18, 2005) Start of my blog to document my efforts of training for a 1/2 Marathon.
• Podcast Publishing With MovableType (Oct 21, 2005) How we are using an old version of MT to create a system for publishing audio content to multiple sites.
• Can I Have That in Small, Unmarked Bills Please? (Oct 23, 2005) My blog is worth 72 million clams.
• Cover Art (Oct 28, 2005). My photo from Death Valley gets used on a CD for a German rock band and the CD arrives in my mailbox in November. Where else but the net can this happen?<
• Blogmenting (Oct 28, 2005) Recognizing again that there is more to blogging than just writing.
• Dogfacelift (Nov 12, 2005) I finally get around to a semi-original WordPress template.
• My Teacher Wears a Cowboy Hat and Boots- For Tonight’s Class He Lectured With Guitar and Harmonica (Dec 6, 2005)
• MCLI iForum Released (Dec 8, 2005) The release of the MCLI iForum, a Word-Pressed online version of our formerly dead tree publication.
• Throwing Stones at the Wiki Glass House (Dec 11, 2005) Another post with a double digit comment count (barely).

Wow, that took much longer than I thought, and maybe I should trim the list. These are my own mile markers, and the glance back does put a blogging year in perspective. I can say the thought is weird that people I do not know (or know) read this stiff, and even more weird, get in their minds I know what I am writing about. It’s made up as I go ;-)

I am also looking forward to turning the clock for 2006. My IndyJunior travel plans already have San Diego, Vancouver (and maybe Austin) pegged for 2006 travel. Also on the map is a plan to be more serious and regular about keeping an eportfolio that is more than a playpen, and maybe a stepping stone…

Anyhow, to all CDB readers out there, have a great year-end roll over into 2006. Blogging relaxed from Strawberry, Arizona… Alan

So with much better things to with my time, I whipped up this ad for a book not yet in stores:

If we could side step the whinges people have about this being the bane of illegal activity and the realm of black t-shirt clad teenage pirates, and just look with interest at this creative shift in the way information can be distributed, isn’t it exciting?

I’d been toying with doing some experimentation on using bitTorrrent for sharing digital stories- people are expending great effort to produce fantastic personal narratives, but the file size is unwieldy for sharing… what do you think? I’ve got some content lined up, and as soon as I have read the book above, I may start dabbling later in the summer (that would be July for you southern hemispherics)

But however “cool” a magazine may pass itself off for, underneath it is a business and there are bean counters and bottom liners working to milk my money. I loathe the “urgent” reminders that start 5 months before my subscription expired and I deliberately ignore them until a month before. What do I get out of giving interest free loans (okay, I provide this service to the US Government).

But this latest “personalized” note from “Jeffrey Stone, Office of the Publisher” makes me wonder if they are working under the P.T. Barnum School of Business:

Let me be frank. Alan Levine…
There is a special reason why I am writing you today.

Oh, I feel so special….

You’ve been a loyal subscriber and I’d like to show my appreciation.

Okay, I could really stand for someone to give my car a good car wash, or maybe pulling some weeds in the lawn. Tell me more Jeffy…

With just a few issues left before expire, I want to make sure you stay in the Wired family. So I’ve authorized our Customer Service to offer you a special, limited-time renewal opportunity:

Start with our low Professional Rates – save 80% off the cover price.

Well Jeff, I’ll ignore your awkward grammar (“left before expire”), and the fact that this expiration is actually 4 months from now according to my mailing label, this exclusive, professional rate you have gone out of your way to “authorize” ($12.00 per year), a whopping “80% off the cover prices” (I hate those gimmicks– no one buys a subscription as single issue cover price) is actually 20% more than the $10 check I wrote Wired in September 2004 for my last renewal.

I suddenly feel, well, less special, Jeffy. Like you see a big SUCKER sticker on my back. “Please fleece me with cheap words”.

It’s easy to renew. Just return the Voucher above by May 26. We’ll immediately validate that the Levine account receives our discounted Professional Rate For your covenvience, I’ve enclosed a postage-paid envelope.

Jeffie! You gave me a FREE FREAKIN’ STAMP! I am so stoked! You are dah man!

But wait a minute. If I mail it in before May 26, do I get the turnip twaddler? The Ronco stud setter?

And if I do not mail it in before May 26, can I have my old, un professional rate of $10 per year? Please? Jeff? Are you there?

P.S. For the best deal, be sure to check the two-year term!

And what a deal this is! Instead of paying $12 for one year, I get two whole years for $24!

Can you believe what a crazy guy Jeff is for offering me this kind of deal!!!! And they say we do not have good math skills coming out of our school system. Jeff is living proof!

Jeff? Jeff? The hose is over on the side of the house and you’ll find a bucket and suds in the shed….

So I use search most often while looking for specific things, but for discovery, it is really just the first layer of yielding primary sources. It is those secondary, tertiary, (quadriary?) exploration links that lead to the hidden gems.

So this morning, when I stumbled into something completely useful without it popping in a search result (and the fact I was not even looking for it initially), I am just compulsed to write it up at home before going into work, and will likely late for work.

So it started with an item that popped up in a few sites in my RSS reader. The April 2005 D-Lib article “Social Bookmarking Tools” by Hammond and others from the Nature Science group is an excellent read and a must bookmark-furl-spurl-delicious URL. Good beacuse it is thorough, intensely linked, illustrated, but also well written, and reads like it is written by someone who really is with it in terms of web technology:

Because, to paraphrase a pop music lyric from a certain rock and roll band of yesterday, “the Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you”, it seems like we might have to face up to some of these stark realities [n1]. With the introduction of new social software applications such as blogs, wikis, newsfeeds, social networks, and bookmarking tools (the subject of this paper), the claim that Shelley Powers makes in a Burningbird blog entry [1] seems apposite: “This is the user’s web now, which means it’s my web and I can make the rules.” Reinvention is revolution – it brings us always back to beginnings.

We are here going to remind you of hyperlinks in all their glory, sell you on the idea of bookmarking hyperlinks, point you at other folks who are doing the same, and tell you why this is a good thing…

This paper reviews some current initiatives, as of early 2005, in providing public link management applications on the Web – utilities that are often referred to under the general moniker of ‘social bookmarking tools’. There are a couple of things going on here: 1) server-side software aimed specifically at managing links with, crucially, a strong, social networking flavour, and 2) an unabashedly open and unstructured approach to tagging, or user classification, of those links.

So the article was a find in itself (and has been properly furled, actually before I read the whole thing).

It was towards the middle of the article under “Building Communities” where the authors begin to share the different ways tags and links dig into sources they have compiled in Connotea. The very first item in the list (this morning when I found it, this will change, right?) was listed as:

where the tag line was enough to hook me:

Freetag – an Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications

Now I had back of my mind (way in the back, dusty seldom visited regions) been thinking that in a second generation version of our Maricopa Learning eXchange I could see a way to add tagging as a part of the MLX system (this is on the back burner until I can wrestle enough time to finish the first generation alpha of an open source MLX).

Note to self- it looks like Connotea is evolving nicely, must return for another cup of connotea…

But holy XXXXXXX! Freetag looks like it may just be able to plug in!

Freetag is an easy tagging and folksonomy-enabled plugin for use with MySQL-PHP applications. It allows you to create tags on existing database schemas, and access and manage your tags through a robust API.

This might mean I can incorporate some tagging into the MLX without having to toll code myself.

What is exciting to me, besides the value of the find, was the joy of the find. I would have likely gotten to this site from a web search, unless I did something like a specific search (which does work well, by the way). I found it by click luck.

This is what I tried to convey as the closing message in my TCC 2005 presentation yesterday… with the overload of information that we all feel, while traveling the confusing road to the future, how will you travel? With a sense of:

Despair
flickr image from http://flickr.com/photos/sabineschmidt/2507284/

or a wide eyed look of:

Wonder
flickr image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_pawley/8697122/

Finding by serendipity keeps me in the latter category.

PS Just the flickr search on “despair” brought a pile of serendipity-found images. See the lonliest hotdog or a dire situation. Follow the “your gone” set of images in order… Is there a mini meme of flickr storytelling? Hmmmm

I thought I had way too much in there, but by talking fast and skimming details I sprinted through 45 screens and 2 web demos in 45 minutes. I used my worn our Star Trek metaphor for how Harry Mudd and gang fooled Norman the Robot, then went through 10 rounds of technologies using a structure of the “Wired, Tired, Expired” feature of Wired Magazine, and threw in the closing bit of Small Technologies Losely Joined, and Rip, Mix, Learn.

Nearly all the images were found in flickr (and duly noted by URL in the screen shots).

While the entire Elluminate recorded version is already available, you need to have registered for the conference to see it. But I created a quick, perhaps not as elegant end around:

I took my screen captures I created for my planning script, and created a Quicktime slide show (5 seconds per slide):
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/movies/harry_mudd.mov

And I captured the audio by sticking my iRiver next to my laptop and tossing through Audacity to get a 14 Mb mp3 (about an hour):
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/sounds/harry_mudd.mp3

So it is not exactly synchronized, that is on your end. Lastly, I tossed together last night a wiki site for all the web references, in the vague hopes that people will add (and not piss over) the goods:
http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/wiki?HarryMudd

Whew, I have presentation come down… Time for a naaaaaaaaaaap

The theme this 10th anniversary year is “Looking Back Toward the Future”:

Since the 1970s, the impact of educational technology has been relentless and ever changing. What can we learn from our past? What’s hot and what’s not? Where are we going? What would we like to see? Through your experiences, we ask that you remind us, guide us, and help us navigate towards the future.

Join us on our 10th anniversary of the TCC Worldwide Online Conference to share your expertise, experiences and knowledge relevant to the use of information technology in learning, teaching and academic services. This event will also be useful for novices and those interested in Internet resources for teaching and learning. It will provide a strong foundation about what’s currently happening in higher education.

This might be my 4th or 5th TCC conference, and it truly is a great experience as you get to interact as much as you can with a wide range of near and distant colleagues– and since there are people presenting, chatting, posting around the world, there is something going on around the clock.

This is the third year our office has sponsored an institutional registration so that all faculty, staff, yes students, and even administrators can participate at no cost to them. We’ve been able to send more than 100 each year, which is not bad (unless you consider we have nearly 10,000 full-time and part-time eligible employees, not to mention another order of magnitude of students). The individual registration is reasonable (US$77, though it is late registration now so it is US$99), and this gives you access to all presentations and archives for the year. It’s not too late to sign up!

Last year, I did a live audio session while attending an NMC meeting in San Francisco (via Elluminate), so picture me holding a laptop in a hotel hallway, aiming towards the wireless hub in our meeting room, looking from at a distance like a looney having an intense conversation with his screen… and then some other meeting emptied out in the hallway with lots of chattering noise.

So when asked by colleague Bert Kimura to do a keynote session this year, I rummaged around my big pile of remixed presentation ideas and graphics, and came up with this silly title/description:

“Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that Not Widely Distributed Future”
Predictions of the future are easily analyzed in hindsight and ought to be skeptically questioned– you will have to tune into this session to see the connection with an old Star Trek episode. However, author William Gibson’s insightful quote, “The future is here. It is just not widely distributed yet” is the framework I use to peek at the future. So for the use of technology in teaching and learning, where is this “not widely distributed future?” I am not sure, but in this session we will take some guesses at places you may find the future. The present use of the web was visible, but not widely distributed in 1992– is something of that scale already here? Will text messaging displace email as a communication mode? We will look at the drivers of consumer used technologies that become disruptive (digital cameras take the lead of the consumer photo market, MP3 players re-shaping the music industry). How about those multitude of technology gadget web sites? The future is there and it is not. Are small pieces of technology “loosely” joined technologies (often open source) displacing large comprehensive commercial tools? Explore hands on some of the interesting “social” and connection technologies such as “tags”, RSS, wikis, podcasts, and perhaps whatever else pops up between now and the conference.

With a week to go, that is all there is right now, as I am synthesizing things up to the wire. Since it is a live session presented in the Elluminate virtual classroom, I’ll be uploading a series of slides into their whiteboard, and tossing out some audio over showing web sites and such. It is recorded and saved, though made available for registered participants (see, it is worth paying!), but I’ll have some fragments of content posted eventually (once the ink dries).