This week the Text Technologies course I co-teach is about to begin Rip, Mix, Feed - Reloaded (feedback welcome), and it occurred to me I got some linktribution and love karma to give out.

Among the things I didn't blog the past few weeks was a virtual keynote I did with Alan and D'Arcy for the K12 online conference. Due to our schedules, we more or less composed our sections in isolation, which was a real drag as the main reason I agreed to do the thing was to work with my amigos. I think I let that disappointment colour my reaction to the result, which is uneven but not too bad -- due mostly to some heroic editing by D'Arcy.

Rip, Mix, Feed Reloaded also draws critically on some absolutely essential work Alan did for his Australian sojourn: Web 2.0 Gems, and 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story. These collections are a staple in everything I do these days, it seems. I feel like we in the edublog community should give Alan a medal or something.

Also figuring heavily in Rip, Mix, Feed - Reloaded is Bryan Alexander. I'll take this opportunity to play a short clip from the aforementioned K12 keynote. While I was procrastinating about preparing my section, I put out an open call on Twitter asking if anyone wanted to engage in some audio hijinks. To my delight, Bryan volunteered. Obviously, this was improvised, and a first take to boot. But I think this is a fine example Dr. Alexander's comic gifts:

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Original .mov here.

NSW Learnscope Event in 2nd Life
Originally uploaded by Choconancy1.

Barbara "Bee" Dieu invited a bunch of us to be part of her closing keynote of the New South Wales Learnscope 07 event. Bee was in Sao Paulo, there were a bunch of people F2F in Sydney, Australia and the rest of us in world from all over the world.

I'm such a noob in 2nd life - so I'm sure I provided a laugh. I did figure out how to make a new jacket for the event and shrink. Somehow I initially made my avatar very tall!