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via Alan Levine
“BlogSieve (”Advanced Feed Processing for Atom, RDF, and RSS”) is a new service that is fresh out and has potential for those wanting to mix RSS feed sources and recombine them in new ways:
BlogSieve is a web-based tool that creates new feeds by filtering, merging and sorting […]

Earlier in the week I participated in a mid-year workshop for Communities of Practice supported by Reframing the Future. It was a day of strong reflection about how the projects are progressing and one of the topics I found very rich was the translation of the concept of practice into a diagram. As the elements […]

From the BBC, Nigel Paine, Head of People Development spoke at the Cool Results Online Event. ‘Building Learning Environments that Work’ recording at http://home.learningtimes.net/lta (registration required)
Form is as important as substance - software has to function and make for a rewarding experience. (Marie Scardino?)
Think about the work we do more like a frog […]

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“Mission
The mission of the Centre is to promote the development and raise the professional standing of people working in Victorian TAFE Institutes.
Objectives
The Centre has the following objectives:
1. to identify and sponsor opportunities for the ongoing development of teaching and non-teaching staff in the TAFE sector, and foster recognition arrangements for […]

Presentation by Sean Fitzgerald and Leigh Blackall - recording available at http://home.learningtimes.net/lta?go=t971019 (you will need to register to login)
From the 2005 Cool Results Online Event
There is such a rich wiki resource to go with this presentation at http://networkedlearning.wikispaces.org/knowledge+sharing that my notes are pretty thin. I think their wiki will become a great […]

Anne Bartlett Bragg
Can Technology Enhance Learning?
Thanks to some arguments with my computer on Monday, I missed part of this session and also lost the notes I did make. So thank goodness that the sessions are recorded, as I was able to go back to the recording and listen to it again. Anne made extensive use […]

We were fortunate to have Brad Beach and Carol McCulloch both present short sessions at the Mid-year workshop and the Flexible Learning Network Meeting the afternoon preceding.
Carol McCulloch introduced us to Digital Storytelling using MS PhotoStory 3
Using this software (and others) you can bring together a selection of photos, images, text and audio […]

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surprised I hadn’t blogged these before.

nr3017.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Authors: Giselle Mawer, Elaine Jackson
NCVER Report
“This report presents issues associated with incentives for training existing workers in small to medium-sized firms, identified through a small sample of case studies from the retail, manufacturing, and building and construction industries. While the majority of employers recognise workforce skill levels are fundamental to the success of […]

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Author: Susanne Wood
NCVER Report
“Fully on-the-job training, the majority of which is conducted in the workplace as part of the normal experience of the employee, is perceived to offer benefits to apprentices/trainees, employers and registered training organisations. This report finds fully on-the-job training is viewed by learners and registered training organisations as a good […]

nr1019.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Authors: Ray Townsend, Peter Waterhouse, Marg Malloch
NCVER Report
- Generally, qualifications are viewed by employers as serving two purposes: as a ‘gate - keeping’
mechanism at point of recruitment of new employees and as a development tool, providing a
career pathway for existing employees.
- Compliance with external regulations and/or standards emerges as […]

Connectivism Blog
from George Siemens
Recently I’ve been working with more teachers on the nitty gritty of their resources and delivery models and I think this piece sums up what I’ve been trying to achieve.
“Instead of designing instruction (which we assume will lead to learning), we should be focusing on designing ecologies in which learners can forage […]

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interesting to read a teacher/lecturer’s thoughts about creating and using video in the form of narrated screen capture, and what material would be best served by these methods.

The Workplace as a Site for Learning:
must come back here and see if I can track down the articles.

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