Unfettered Clips & Quotes

Now that the first podcast transcripts from Unfettered Mind have been published and the tool to create and deliver audio clips from the podcasts (appended with a notice of the source of such a clip) has passed its first real world user test, here is a new place (blog) to make further use of it all:

Unfettered Clips & Quotes
QUOTATIONS AND AUDIO CLIPS OF BUDDHIST TEACHER KEN MCLEOD

As it will grow over time hope it will contain something for you. Of course, if you think there is something missing from the podcasts or Ken's teachings that you deem to be important or that is meaningful to you and that should be added there, it would be great to learn about it.

Survey results

A few weeks ago Unfettered Mind announced a new offering. Now available on the Unfettered Mind website, are five examples of podcast transcripts presented in conjunction with audioclips. To inform the on-going development of this innovation, and to make it as useful as possible, Unfettered Mind invited everyone connected to the network to participate in a survey The task involved personalizing the following short story:

As a ___________________________________

e.g. non-native speaker of English

I want to_________________________________

e.g. have the podcasts in written form with accompanying audio

so that I can ______________________________

e.g. study and practice more effectively

Those responding were invited to submit multiple stories in order to share as fully as possible the range of uses they envisioned.

Over 70 people responded. We've put together an overview of the results in a short Google Doc presentation. Once you've opened the file, click on Start Presentation for a full screen view, or if you wish to read the explanatory notes, remain in the Google Docs view and click on the "view speaker notes" icon at the bottom right of the screen.

The presentation follows the story line.

• The first slide is about how users describe themselves.
• The second and third slides are qualitative and quantitative ways of showing how people responded to "I want to..."
• The fourth and fifth slides are two views of the "so that I can...." responses.
• The sixth slide is a quantitative snapshot of what different users want.
• The remaining slides summarize some key messages that we've drawn from this information.
• The final slide shows how people heard about the survey.

Please share your comments and questions.

survey sent

Franca and I worked on the transcript survey this morning, messing around with Google Forms, etc. We discovered that we can insert html tags into the Google form and create a better looking form as a result. You can see the finished form, and let us know your ideas for the podcasts and transcripts by clicking here.