Congversations Heritage & Stories

Chris Reina visited the Clonmel Digital Campus where he met with Claire Bentley to discuss Maker Meet and several creative ventures. Music by Andre Louis.

Questions:

00:22 - Who is Chris Reina, where can people find your content?
00:57 - 5 word identy
01:12 - What is maker meet?
01:55 - Do you have any third spaces?
02:54 - How was CESICON 2019?
04:01 - Valuable Skills for Third level students?
05:21 - How do you start networking?
07:01 - Who inspires you?
08:44 - What events do you attend yearly?
09:50 - What are you reading at the moment?
11:20 - Advice for sharing content online?

Shownotes at http://insideview.ie/2018/12/congversation-13.html

03:30 Introductng Zanya Dahl through a five word Google search and finding hockey, creativity and improv.

05:30 The role of comedy improve in the creative industry.

06:38 Interagency karma.

08:45 Estimating one's value.

09:43 Reflections on #Cong18.

10:22 The essence of the Cong Community.

11:45 The special "third space" in Zanya’s life—think “coffee”. http://coppa.ie/

15:19 Working to raise the standard of the online experience in Ireland.

16:29 Inspired by Fjord and Fantasy.co and you should know the Adobe Creative Suite if you plan to work in a creative studio.

18:42 The importance of critical thinking.

21:17 Digital Champions coalesce around high quality work.

27:10 A showcase that starts along the Z-axis.

Find Zanya Dahl though http://artizan.ie and see her work in social feeds like https://instagram.com/artizancreative. See the word cloud of Zanya Dahl inside the Congversation Flickr Album at http://flickr.com/groups/congversations

This "congversation" supports the Congregation unconference in Cong, County Mayo, Ireland. Show notes at http://insideview.ie/2018/12/congversation-12.html and images inside http://flickr.com/groups/congversations

00:50 If you search Google for "Larry" and added “podcast” to the search string, you would find “The Larb”.
01:42 Lots of cover art images, audio clips, and YouTube video collateral of Larry Maguire.
02:19 Larry Maguire is doing how-to video content, especially informative clips about Mailchimp
04:18 Unpacking vibrant Social Audio: Narrow, Anchor.fm, and Limorapp.
05:05 New work by Jerad Maplethorpe.
07:48 Pam O’Brien explains the importance of face to face meetups.
08:24 Sharing Creative Commons content with Flickr.
10:48 Larry gets inspiration in his van and then leverages the power of Google Keep.
14:13 We’re not far from a world of people who agree to life with embedded chips. That might bring the virtual into the actual in a dystopian way.
15:42 Chris Brogan is a digital champion.
16:06 How do you know something is real?
17:44 The story of the Iron Skillet. And iron-clad skills for an effective digital lifestyle.
25:44 Next up: Zanya from Artizan Creative.

26:10 How to stay in touch with http://larrygmaguire.com through audio, video, writing, and imagery.

Art does more than question our surroundings. It can also serve as a community forum, as Cliona Maher explains in this congversation. Show notes at http://www.insideview.ie/2018/12/congversation-11.html with music by Andre Louis.

00:33 If someone used five words to find you on Google—and one of those words was Cliona—what would the other four words be? It depends _why_ people were looking for Cliona.

00:58 What sorts of imagery, video clips, audio snippets, or other forms of media text are associated with Cliona Maher? You would probably find pictures of Cliona with others.

03:10 The 2019 theme of Congregation is “community”. How important is the role of art in the development of a vibrant community? See Cliona on YouTube talking about art and community. She references the Theatre of the Oppressed and work of several prominent practitioners.

05:33 The special Third Space that helps Cliona find higher levels of creativity and energy is quiet and in a quiet time slot.

07:47 Music helps Cliona Maher write.

08:25 Big wall calendars help keep things tracking.

10:47 Inside view of Cliona Maher’s workflow.

11:56 Eoin Kennedy explains how #cong19 theme was chosen.

12:53 Productivity tools for writing: Scrivener, Otter.ai, and Rev.com

14:29 If someone was entering the arts space today, what sorts of digital literacies would they need to succeed? Hint: Be able to talk about what you do.

17:50 Digital Literacy is computational thinking, says Pam O’Brien.

19:09 If we took a shelfie of Cliona, you would see Beloved by Toni Morrison, Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, and Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces.

20:22 Four different Tom Murphys get name-checked.

22:32 Being informed by the search algorithm affects how would someone finds you on the internet. You could go directly to @southtipparts or to @clionama. You should read http://southtippartscentre.ie and if you have a local paper, look for arts announcements.

24:13 The purpose of Facebook is changing.

25:29 There are different reasons to use LinkedIn. Slideshare may deliver unexpected results too.

27:30 Congversation 11 ends just in time to hear @eoink talk about Congregation in a series of two podcast episodes.

Bernie Goldbach explains how Congversations are set up from research to follow-up analysis of the reach of its content. Shownotes at http://www.insideview.ie/2018/12/congversation-1810.html

Music by Andre Louis.

0:08 Today we break down the basics of the Congversations, starting by explaining the basic steps behind Congversations.

0:33 Listener Paul O’Mahony and shelfies and Otter.ai

2:24 Dylan assists in explaining how the process starts with research using Word.

3:00 Recording with Spreaker.

3:35 Flickr Congversation Group contains image collateral.

4:09 Short YouTube clips share the main ideas in a Congversation Playlist. According to Google, 50% of the each clip is viewed by visitors, compared to only 23% of the audio clip being heard all the way to the end.

4:47 Show notes are kept at http://www.InsideView.ie/podcasting

5:15 Each Instagram clip is seen by at least 100 people.

5:40 Short video content is placed inside the https://www.linkedin.com/groups/85170/ Open Coffee Congversations group

5:58 Some of the content is shared to Medium.com/@topgold and tagged as Congversation.

6:22 Google for Congversations and see the reach of the podcast.

7:42 Congversation 10 ends. Next up: Congversation 11 with Cliona Maher from South Tipp Arts Centre.

@catherinecronin explains the foundations of Open Education to @pamelaaobrien and @topgold with shownotes at http://insideview.ie/2018/12/congversation-1809.html

00:52 The five word search phrase leading people to the work of @catherinecronin.

01:50 The best known item related to Catherine Cronin’s work.

03:20 To “flow across lovely online spaces” …

03:40 Catherine Cronin’s world class idea of 2018 revolves around open practices and what they mean for individuals.

06:20 Concepts of critical advocacy as presented at the OER Conference.

07:00 How Plan S and open access affect researchers.

09:20 Could you describe the most vibrant community of practice in your professional or personal life?

10:10 The iCollab Community of Practice

12:30 We often dive deeply into special work when we seclude ourselves in third spaces. Catherine Cronin shares details about her own third space.

14:50 The critical importance of face-to-face connections.

16:20 Creative Commons and Congversations.

17:40 What is the most important digital literacy for a third level educator?

20:30 Mike Caulfield and The Four Moves of Digital Literacy

21:00 Kinzen and user-validated recommendations

21:40 Coding and Computational Thinking

22:30 Catherine Cronin recommends How Democracies Die, An Urgency of Teachers, and Conceptualising The Digital University

22:50 Hashtags frequented by @CatherineCronin who blogs at http://catherinecronin.net: #unboundeq #oep