I created a Slide Show!

Another irresistible plaything, slide.com...
snapshots from my 60th birthday at Bud's.

Slideshare: good for PPTs

Slideshare allows me to upload Power Point files

such as this one that I made

for the Converge 2006 conference in Melbourne.

Birthday orchids

It is nearly six weeks

since Di gave me these

for my 60th birthday.

Each day, I revel in

their beauty and longevity.

Chelsea

We are having a good time.

I made this post as part of a session at Chelsea Longbeach Centre last Friday. Afterwards, I walked down The Strand, past the spot where I spent three years of my life in late adolescence. As with the Cheltenham post office residence, my home is no longer there, demolished for more modern buildings. It was beautiful to walk right onto the beach. When I lived there, I was barely aware of this glorious location, my mind being so university-centred.

Me in Second Life

GippsTafe Students originally uploaded by joannamkay.

The avatar in red and blue is me, Biddy LaFontaine. This is the momentous day of the launch of the resort, last Monday.

My Podomatic now lives here too

St Kildascape, Winter 2006

St Kildascape, Winter 2006, originally uploaded by deliab.

I'm glad I took this photo, at our back door, about a month ago. Already, the splendid moment is passed.

I posted the photo here directly from Flickr.

Another view of WOMAD

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Not wooden women

I joined You Tube today.

It's marvellous to be able to send my digital story straight to my Biddy blog.

I made this early work in summer last year.

Winter splendour in St Kilda

I love this photo!

I am going to send it from here, Writely,

(a truly magical online word processor),

to my Biddyjournal blog.

Scarfscape

I have had a delightful day today,
filming a diversity of scapes around St Kilda.
I blogged this row of my scarves straight from Picasa.

 

A test e-mail post: Global Voices Online

I sent the information below to this spot by e-mail.

The world is talking. Are you listening?

A growing number of bloggers around the world are emerging as “bridge bloggers:” people who are talking about their country or region to a global audience. Global Voices is your guide to the most interesting conversations, information, and ideas appearing around the world on various forms of participatory media such as blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/top/about-global-voices/

Another ODEO post: Amergin with music

powered by ODEO
This time I uploaded an mp3 file to ODEO and then uploaded it from there to here. I also chose a different design for the audio player. Links to a podcast are below.

http://odeo.com/audio/1403614/view

Another ODEO post: Amergin's poem read aloud

powered by ODEO

I recorded an audiopost at ODEO and then uploaded it from there to here. Links to a podcast are below.

http://odeo.com/audio/1403481/view

An ancient Celtic poem

I posted this poem from Word.

I have been in many shapes
I have been a narrow blade of grass
I have been a drop in the air
I have been a shining star
I have been a word in a book
I have been an eagle
I have been a boat on the sea
I have been a string on a harp
I have been enchanted for a year on the foam of the water
There is nothing in which I have not been.

An ancient Celtic poem, The Song of Amergin

Keeping track

I now have so many sites, I am being more conscientious about gathering them together in the one place. del.icio.us is ideal.

http://del.icio.us/deliab/deliamb

Lavender power

May the healing powers

of lavender

permeate my blog!

Another online repository

* I have just opened a new site at http://multiply.com.

* Slowly, I am trying to work out the distinctive qualities and virtues of all these online repositories and aggregators.

* On my site, you can see a photo of Biddy Bannon,

my Irish grandmother and this blog's namesake.

Delia's multiply site

A Change of Scene

On April 20th, I gave a presentation
called A Change of Scene.

I have a wikispace
called A Change of Scene.
You can find it at
http://snipurl.com/rpak.

For a sound and sight show, visit http://michalk.id.au/ala/aChangeofScene,
where Michael Chalk houses
his multimedia record of this event.

Venus Bay

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My first ODEO phone blog

Testing with Audioblogger, May 29 2006

VALBEC 2006 Conference, May 5th 2006

These are the websites recommended in a handout distributed at the 2006 VALBEC conference. The workshop, co-presented with Michael Coghlan, was called
Different Voices, Different Spaces.

Audio tools
AUDACITY
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

AUDIOBLOGGING
http://audioblogger.com/
http://npaudio.blogspot.com/
http://mikecogh.blogspot.com//

PODOMATIC
http://www.podomatic.com/
http://michaelc.podomatic.com/
http://deliab.podomatic.com/

SKYPE
http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html

Other resources
ACAL
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=221 (ACAL’s ‘Literacy Live’)

DIFFERENT VOICES, DIFFERENT SPACES website
http://dvds.flexiblelearning.net.au/index.html

DIFFERENT VOICES, DIFFERENT SPACES project report
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2005/pid/126

DIFFERENT VOICES, DIFFERENT SPACES CD-ROM resource (2005)
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2005/pid/126

MICHAEL’S SITES
http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/mater/easy_voice.htm
http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/nz/CLESOL/keynote_language.htm

NEW PRACTICES IN FLEXIBLE LEARNING 2005
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2005/pid/54
(Resources for: Beyond Text, Connecting the Dots and Social Interactions Packs)

PODCAST DIRECTORY FOR EDUCATORS
http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/index.php

THE KNOWLEDGE TREE
http://knowledgetree.flexiblelearning.net.au/index.html

Source: Different Voices, Different Spaces workshop, VALBEC 2006 conference

WOMAD 2006: Towards utopia 2

Was this my favourite spot, the chai shop, The Holy Cow?

In honour of Brigid

Brigid's feast day is the 1st of February, Imbolc in the ancient Celtic calendar. Imbolc is the mid-winter celebration held to herald the return of light and fertility as the Earth prepares to awaken from her winter hibernation.

Coloured sands

This is my favourite image from WOMAD 2006,

the sands used by the Tibetan monks for their sand mandala.

WOMAD 2006: Towards utopia

These splendid lanterns festooned the whole park.

Below is a short digital story.

One of our garden plaques

This always takes me back to Sicily.