Live elearning

Edna workshop 2
This was the higher ed, adult and community sector session which Peta and I went to for a different perspective. Some of the participants are teacher educators from unis. Early comments are that uni courses are behind what needs to be happening, and is happening, in schools. Education students display a broad range of tech awareness and skills.
There are sector specific urls eg uni.edna.edu.au, vet.edna.edu.au, schools.edna.edu.au, ace.edna.edu.au

12 priority areas – hmmm, looks like everything is covered. So broad reach rather than tight focus.
Edna Site described as a mix of Web1 and Web2.
Suggest in RSS for Educators PD workshops we include the VET RSS feed as a suggested one.
(Pru just mentioned they might use the video footage to make a podcast – be interesting to see the sound quality from the flip camera in that setting)
Also another one for our own workshop program are the sector specific hot topics pages. And also to link from Elearning Central. Nice way to enrich our pages with little effort.
In advanced search you are able to specify media type eg audio, image, interactive, text, video. Yay! Didn’t know that one.
Everything on edna resources has to be available online, ideally free (include some not-free if not much on that topic free of charge, ideally non-commercial, available for educators)
Federated search has a good range of sources. AFLF but not sure if it includes LORN. Suspect not.
2 minutes to go and we’re onto the Groups area.
Promoted as space where you can have groups for discussion without hassles of usernames for non-staff/students.
Lists space available as well. (C4CL?)
Me.edu.au – online professional networks – space for online professional presence that can gather your varied online presences into one space that can then be passed on.