Where to put presentations and how to find info. about sources

On Feb 12, 2019, at 16:16, Paul Beaufait wrote:

Hi G...,

I was thinking of you earlier today, ....

... your questions about pres. storage and retrieval sites, and identifying copyright material in extant presentations, might be a bit wide of the PSG's self-circumscribed remit. You still might [want to] inquire of JALT CALL SIG folk. Nevertheless, here's my two-cents['] worth. 

You're right about LinkedIn's appeal outside academic circles. I opted for SlideShare years ago, for ease of use as I recall–probably before integration with LinkedIn. However, I've been unable to find any spec's for free storage space today. Once you've uploaded to Slideshare (PDFs were recommended), content becomes virtually static, i.e., un-collabor-able. That is, unless you consider deep-diving (threaded) discussions [in comments] collaborative, which they may well become in certain other venues. I don't recall ever encountering or engaging in discussions like that on Slideshare.

You didn't mention how many previous presentations you'd like to publicize. Since Dec. last year, however, I've been bouncing against the ceiling for free storage space on Google (all sorts of content counted together: Gmail, PDFs, photos, videos[,] ... – but not including Google-native Docs and Slides). That has been even though Google offers more space for free (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/01/google-hasnt-updated-gmail-drive-photos-storage-limit-in-5-years.html) than does MS OneDrive (https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-US/plans/).

Regarding possibly copyright or otherwise licensed material in ready-made presentations, if it's images you're concerned about, Google (or other) image searches might turn up original sources and contextual authorship/licensing details. On blogs or other websites, I've found, those details usually appear on top pages and in page footers. 

YouTube once unceremoniously removed sound from a video I'd mixed with a tune that had come pre-packaged in the Mac video software that I'd used to produce it. Rather than attempt to argue (or litigate) the point against YouTube's done-deal, I simply replaced the tune with similar licks from a free music source. [A similar tactic may serve for image or text mash-ups.]

Searches for text snippets you'd like to retrieve and acknowledge [the]... sources for might turn up periodicals (behind paywalls) or books (with sample pages visible on Amazon) as well. Covers and copyright pages of books (or previous citations with publication details) may be visible in or accessible via search results. Newsy articles may no longer be accessible at original URLS, if at all.

Rediscovering exact page numbers for reference citations can be time-consuming if not troublesome. Requesting full texts of periodical articles from authors (via Academia or ResearchGate) or sending inquiries to journal editors are options. Both such sources may be keen on planned or projected citations.

The best advice I can offer is forward-looking; collect all the details you think you may need–and more, when you first encounter suitable source material. 

If you do find primers covering those sorts of intellectual property rights re-discovery [emphasis added], please point them out to me! I'll be happy to add them to the PSG's Diigo Group bookmarks.

Warm regards,

PB

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Springboard for Reflections and Predictions

In a six-minute TED Talk, The Psychology of Your Future Self (March 2014), Dan Gilbert, a research psychologist, suggested:

Most of us can remember who we were 10 years ago, but we find it hard to imagine who we're going to be ... [10 years from now]. Only when we look backwards do we realize how much change happens in a decade" (Interactive Transcript, ¶¶ 7-8, via Blog this).

As a step towards the next essay assignment, language learning stories, please watch that TED Talk, keeping your own language skills in mind. The next step will be to create a free-writing post in which you:

1. Describe ... your language skills ten years ago,
2. Describe your language skills at present, and
3. Predict your language skills ten years from now.

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Populaire Official US Release Trailer #1 (2013) - Bérénice Bejo Movie HD

This is a U.S. English trailer for a French romantic comedy, Populaire (Attal & Roinsard, 2012), about a speedy typist.

[I watched the movie on a DVD last night. It was very funny.] I wish I could type as fast as she did.

Reference

Attal, Alain (Producer), & Roinsard, Régis (Director). (2012). Populaire [Motion picture]. France: Les Productions du Trésor.

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Flying Kittens vs. Flying Puppies (Slow Motion Battle)

Who has got the best moves – the pussy cats or puppy dogs? Check 'em out!

Reference

Winn, Scott (Producer & Director). (2013). Flying Kittens vs. Flying Puppies (Slow Motion Battle) [YouTube video]. United States: ScottDW.

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Tech tips from David Pogue

Here are a few tips to make working with technology easier and quicker.

   

Which tips do you find memorable and useful? What others do you suggest? You can let us know in comments.

If you find Pogue's delivery speed a bit challenging, subtitles and a complete transcript are available on the TED site: David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips (Filmed Feb. 2013, Posted April 2013).

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"If You Don't Try, You Never Know" (Ding Ding).

Talk about inspiration for additional language learners: "Growing up in China, all I did was study, study, study. I'd never done anything so outrageous, yet so rewarding" (TEDxTalks, If You Don't Try..., published Mar 5, 2013; 5:14+). Look at her now!

Ding Ding at TEDxSiliconAlley ([n.d.])

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Did you ever wonder about ...

... the difference between Holland and the Netherlands? Well, this high-paced geography lesson covers not only differences between ... [two] Hollands [N. & S.] and the Netherlands, but also similarities among them ana other far-flung reaches of the world.

Enjoy!

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Text Correction in Google Docs

The five-minute video that I've embedded below shows how to use text correction tools in Google Docs. As I mentioned in a previous post, auto-correction functions can help you tidy up texts that you've typed quickly, as you do for typing homework assignments (Using Correction Tools after Typing Trials, March 7, 2013).

Instead of a typed text, for this demonstration, I've started correcting a short passage generated from a graphic by Google's optical character reading (OCR) technology. Yet, as the screenshot below the video indicates, the correction tools don't work perfectly.

Even after five minutes treatment with Google correction tools, a number of errors remained, some still marked by Google (dotted red underscores), but without suitable suggestions for auto-correction. There were others not spotted by Google at all. The latter I highlighted by hand either during the demonstration (yellow backgrounds) or afterwards (blue backgrounds). Those still needed hands-on checking and correction.

To make a long story short, after complete correction, and prettied up a bit for a block quotation, it looks like this:

... A fault line runs through the disciplines concerning culture. On one side are disciplines like history or cultural anthropology, rooted in a historicist logic of seeking local regularities within a bounded milieu. On the other are disciplines like economics, driven by a functionalist logic of seeking transhistorical generalizations. Organizational behavior involves both of these logics.... Yet, the emic and etic perspectives each provide only half of the story. ... / ... [A] richer account of culture can result when an integrative explanatory framework arises. 

(Morris, Leung, Ames, & Lickel, 1999, p. 790)

In retrospect, there seem to have been a number of OCR-generated errors in the passage, for example the two "cx" strings remaining in the second to last line of the first paragraph (one stand alone, and the other in the middle of an underscored word). I had corrected another instance of "cx" to "a" while making the video. If I had used the "Select all matching text" option the first time, I might have been able to correct all three at once.

The string "ol" appears to be another such OCR error, a misreading the word "of", as do the "lo" string, a misreading the word "to", and OCR-generated periods instead of commas (¶1, lines 2 and 7; and ¶2, line 1). For that particular typeface and layout (serif, with full-justification, in the original), Google seemed to have had trouble with commas, and with the letters a, f, and t.

Once you begin to recognize recurring errors, in your typing as well as in optical character read texts, it is possible to use the Find and replace function (Edit menu) to correct numerous errors at once.

For instance, the search shown above would:

• Seek " ol " – with single spaces before and after the letters, to find only stand-alone instances of "ol" – not words like alcohol, oligarchy, or polyphenol; and 
• Replace " ol " with " of " – similarly spaced.

If there are any hits on those search term[s], the buttons across the bottom of the dialog box will become active, and have dark lettered labels.

That fine-tuned search might be a safe bet for the Replace all function (circled in orange, but still grayed out, above). However, if you're not absolutely certain that your search and replacement terms are exact, it will be better to review and replace search strings one at a time using the Next, or Previous, and Replace buttons.

Reference

Morris, Michael W.; Leung, Kwok; Ames, Daniel; & Lickel, Brian. (1999). Views from inside and outside: Integrating emic and etic insights about culture and justice judgement. The Academy of Management Review, 24(4), 781-796. Retrieved November 15, 2012, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/259354

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Bruno's Little Dancers

Check 'em out!

TED Talks are among my favorites sources of inspiration. Not that this particular video has much of a transcript, but if you watch other videos on the TED website, you can read along, jump ahead, and review, all with the help of complete and interactive transcripts in various languages there.

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A Timely Video from One of Larry's Bests Posts

Today is World Toilet Day!

The video below is one that I've just found in Larry Frelazzo's post: The Best Resources For Learning About World Toilet Day & The Issue Of Public Sanitation In The Third World. Watch and learn!

World Toilet Day 2012 - Official Animation Video

If that interests you, there are plenty of other resources you can check out in Larry's post.

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Ichiro pitching!!!

Ichiro is at the Yankees now, but I like this video!

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Get a load of this video!

This is a very funny video!

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Fluency MC does collos!

Just connected with an edu-rapper, Fluency MC (Jason R. Levine), who creates music videos highlighting what he calls "collos" (short for collocations) of English vocabulary. In a recent conversation with Dr. Nellie Deutsch (WizIQ: Conversation with Jase: Teacher, Trainer[,] and Entertainer, 2012.09.20), he suggested that he might come to Japan in the future.

On his YouTube page, Levine defines a collo as "a high frequency CHUNK of language" (About Fluency MC). The following featured video, posted less than 24 hours ago, presents dozens of verb+noun collos to help English-as-an-additional language learners remember ways to use the verbs make and do.

 

If you like that, be sure to check out other videos in his English/EFL/ESL ColloLearn playlist. There are 34 of them as of today.

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Pointers to videos from the LLD Project Blog

In this post, I'm replicating a post on the Language Learner Development Project Blog with the author's permission. I want to share, here, the same pointers to a collection of videos for listening comprehension that I did on that blog.

Let’s Have Fun with English: Videos for listening comprehension

Posted by Paul Beaufait in LanguageLearning

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing out Ms. Haquet’s Let’s Have Fun with English video collection in one of his posts:

• Excellent Video Site for Learning English (2012.03.26).

Here’s a direct link to Ms. Haquet’s site, and here’s another straight to her menu of videos for listening comprehension. The two videos that I’ve previewed so far represented … [two distinct] cultures, and ranged in difficulty from intermediate to advanced:

• The Crown Jewels, and
• Wolverine.

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Tags: activities, cultures, listening, videos, viewing

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 at 14:57 pm and is filed under LanguageLearning. ...

If you're looking for a bit of variety or a change in pace in video viewing, you should check out Ms. Haquet's video resource collection. I have no doubt you'll find other videos there that are challenging to listen to, as well as interesting to watch.

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Even birds may enjoy bluegrass!

The bird on the guitar in the screenshot above (from approx. two minutes into a rough but ready dogwork.com video) seems to have dropped in to listen to Josh Williams, who stopped playing and pet the bird, but continued singing the song. 

KeenValleyGuy, who uploaded the following video, pegged the event at the Doyle Larson Bluegrass Festival, in Denton, NC, on May 5, 2011:

Josh Williams - Mordecai, uploaded by KeenValleyGuy, June 7, 2011

Since the bird didn't get it's own mic, it's hard to tell whether it actually did sing along!

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Onomatopeia: What's that?

This short video (1:25) by Mindy Bauer shows and tells what onomatopeia is about. Watch, listen, and learn!

That seems to be Mindy's first YouTube upload (Feed, 2012.04.10). I look forward to seeing more like it.

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Classic Number with a Classy Dame?

What do you think of this duet?

"Music video by Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga performing The Lady Is A Tramp / © 2011 Sony Music Entertainment" (YouTube: Published on Oct 3, 2011 by tonybennettVEVO).

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BR 2-01: Robin Hood (Swan, 1989)

"The king stayed in Nottingham for many weeks, but nobody could find Robin Hood. Nobody knew where he was. Or if they did know, they didn't say" (Swan, 1989, p. 42).

This book has many stories about Robin Hood. They come from folk tales about an outlaw, who was a hero of the people. I like folk stories, and I've watched Disney's animated film version (1973). So I decided to read this book.

At first I was surprised, because the pictures in the book were very different from the Disney's images. Other points were the same. For example, Robin Hood had many friends, but also powerful enemies. The Sheriff of Nottingham tried to catch Robin, and the King of England wanted him dead. I won't tell you what happened. You can read the book, and find out for yourself. I will tell you that I was surprised again.

This book is easy to read. Swan (1989) uses a 500 word vocabulary, and puts New Words in the back (pp. 55-57). You can read one story at a time. Color pictures with many of them show key events in the stories.

I liked this book a lot. I think you will, too. If you do, then maybe we can watch the classic film version (Warner Brothers, 1938) together!

Reference

Swan, D. K. (1989). Robin Hood [Longman Classics, Stage 1]. Harlow, England: Longman Group.

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Nancy and Suzy Explore Twitter

"...[A]n online interaction designer, facilitator and coach... working with a puppet" to help people get a handle on social media (Community Matters, Vimeo, Wed, Feb 16, 2011):

 

Nancy White & Suzy - An Intro to Twitter 

from CommunityMatters on Vimeo.

Twitterers out there: Are they telling it like it is?

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Computer Viruses and Threats Explained by Common Craft

In voice-over on this video animation, Lee LeFever explains what computer viruses, worms, and trojans are, and how they work. He also makes general recommendations for preventing problems that viruses, worms, and trojans may cause. If catching it all while just listening and viewing seems too challenging, you can preview, read along, or review the complete transcript.

• Video:
• http://commoncraft.com/virus-video

• Transcript: 
• http://www.commoncraft.com/transcript-computer-viruses-and-threats

If you like LeFever's presentation style, and want to watch more Common Craft videos, please check out the "in Plain English" series (search: Common Craft).

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