Inside View

End of Semester Password Changes with help of @vyond

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

IT IS GOOD PRACTICE to frequently change passwords and I'm publishing this blog post because I know some of my most loyal students read my blog more than they read my Insta.

I'm also trying to see if Microsoft Stream lets me play the Vyond video clip without imposing a major log-in burden.

And I'm proving to Claire Murray that I can step up to her challenge while attempting to (1) create a character library, (2) use motion path tracing, and (3) challenge the microphone array on the Microsoft Surface Book to produce high quality audio on the fly.

[Bernie Goldbach teaches digital transformation on the Clonmel Digital Campus.]

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Technology and Education and Me #ictedu

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel with Rode, Otter.ai, and Surface Book.

I TAKE INVENTORY of my teaching and learning every May as we prepare the annual ICT in Education Conference. This year's theme, Reshaping Education, has me thinking about my personal teaching practice.

TL/DR; I read my own transcripts more.

Taking Notes Across the Generations

by Bernie Goldbach talking to Surface Book in Clonmel

YESTERDAY a visitor from the Philippines landed on my website insideview.ie to read how my family wrote and saved ideas. I started thinking that I no longer have to actually write anything. I can just talk about things and my blog will write itself.

I can talk to my Surface Books' screen and it will create text from speech. This has digitally changed the way I work.

Starting to chat with my tabbed AI

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

I'M LETTING ChatGPT work away in one of my Chrome browser tabs. I value its conversational responses to questions I raise and I respect it more for the context it offers as part of its responses. Because of the length of its answers, I've moved around some money. I reckon I'm $17 ahead each month because of advice the AI gave me.

Using Bing AI

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

MY BING MOBILE APPS started showing me AI-assisted results two days after I joined the waitlist. I'm using Bing AI conversationally while using my voice to ask questions about local points of interest.

Automation Can Be Hard

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

I'M TEACHING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION to a crew of Masters Degree student and we know it's difficult to automate everything. And automation probably doesn't work at all, perhaps with early childhood education. 

And if you want to effectively integrate automation into manufacturing, you need to complete a granular breakdown of tasks, deciding which of the jobs can be done by a machine. Then you might need to spend thousands of euro designing a robot that may not work as expected.

Bringing Back Blogging

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

AS TWITTER ATROPHIES and Mastodaonie tries to find traction, I'm going to reintroduce blogging into the university modules I teach. And for the month of January, I'm resolved to create at least two blog posts a week.

The posts won't be all on my Old Skool Typepad because I've a microblog now as well as SharePoint News sites I've set up with RSS. Perhaps I can link to all of those locations by putting hyperlinked footnote at the bottom of each of the locations.

[Ten Years After Winning Blog Award]

Experimenting with thoughts connected by images

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

I AM SETTING UP several new academic modules for early 2023 and believe I we can learn from images that students snap, scrape, and share. The process involves using Flickr groups in which students can directly upload content from their handsets' share sheets.

Using Rode Wireless Go as Laptop Mic

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

SOME OF MY BEST successes happen when I discover the items I own can be used in more than one setting. So I'm very pleased to discover that my Rode Wireless Go II microphones can be used along with my Microsoft Surface Book. They're detected as a standard audio input. This means I can walk around a classroom with the Surface Book's rear camera capturing broadcast quality audio from a conversation I have with people up to 200 metres away. Our auditorium is only 15m deep from front to back which means it's easy to pass a roaming mic to students in the cheap seats and they can talk in a normal tone of voice to visitors who Zoom in for guest lectures.

I love it when tech just works.

[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative leadership on the Clonmel Digital Campus for the Technological University of the Shannon.]

Moving to Obsidian

By Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

AS I RAMP UP teaching materials for a module I'm teaching about digital transformation, I've decided to migrate my Personal Knowledge Management process from Notion and Roam Research to Obsidian. I'm migrating because I believe I can teach principles of Zettelkasten and PKM with a series of hands-on tutorials that students complete with their own instances of Obsidian.