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I’ve got a little scrap pf paper on ny desk of “Books I want” and then a mental list supported by my del.icio.us links and blog posts of resources online for referring others to.
This post from Jay Cross brings together his similar lists, including a link to the Internet Time Wiki where the Stocks […]

Fantastic resource for our team as we work with teachers!
from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework…

In 2006 some of the past New Practices in Flexible Learning project
teams developed workshop resources for their projects.  These workshops
are now available as professional development opportunities on a fee
for service basis, and to further enhance the sustainability of these
innovative practices the […]

engage - transforming teaching and learning through technology
For educational purposes, a podcast could be:
* course audio files, e.g. bird calls or heart sounds
* mini lessons with audio and visuals, eg., glossaries with sound and images, slides with voice-over explanations
* audio or video case studies containing interview with experts or other speakers
* multimedia presentations created by […]

This could be a really useful presentation when working with teams to set the scene about apprenticeships - I’m thinking the teacher induction program and also when we are working with teams coming to grips with apprenticeships properly for the first time.
from the DEST website
“New Staff Induction Presentation - UPDATED
This presentation aims to provide AACs […]

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This is a three page summary from Jay Cross about informal learning, accompanied by a great poster  (finally worked out how to do ’tile’ printing after a few discussions with the printer). Everyone I’ve shown it to so far has given it rave reviews.
I particularly liked this bit…

Free-range Learners
Training is something that’s pushed […]

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“Different Voices, Different Spaces is a collection of resources that features a ‘good practice’ model applied to voice technologies in teaching and learning within a range of adult education and vocational training settings.
This collection comes out of a 2005 New Practices in Flexible Learning initiative linking an external educational mentor with three voice […]

Some of the workshops I run are about showing participants a range of tools that they may later, sometimes much later, implement. To formalise the offer of coaching and follow-up, how about giving them a ‘voucher’ for coaching - after a hands on session on blogging for example, you might present participants with a two […]

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This website has been developed by   and includes lots of short and useful PD resources on the following topics:

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“After 41 years in the auto body industry, 27 of these as a teacher at the Institute of TAFE Tasmania, Denis Crowden decided it was time to pick up the tools again and undertake a Return to Industry placement at Elite Crash Repairs in Ulverstone.”
Return to Industry is a program for TAFE Tasmania […]

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Found through SCOTFEICT is this website about Finding and Using Digital Images. It is fairly detailed in parts (eg when talking about digitisation projects and creating image banks at the organisational level), and could also work as a resource for teachers, especially the following sections I think:
> Using images in learning, teaching and […]

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From the Consortium Research Program comes this series of 15 case studies of good practice in VET from John Mitchell, Clive Chappell, Andrea Bateman and Susan Roy.
These could be used as excellent discussion starters with VET practitioners.
Particularly:
p7 Kimbriki Recycling and Waster Disposal as an example of tailored training plans and using in-house […]

From Robin Good link to website
“Electronic portfolios or e-portfolios are gaining increasing media attention as potentially highly valuable learning, evaluation and assessment tools for educators, learners and academic organizations.
An e-portfolio is a web-published collection of documents, information, link resources, audio and video clips that showcases the demonstrated abilities, know-how and skills of a specific person […]

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Before reinventing the wheel I’ve been looking for templates, examples and so on to support a workshop on clustering units in learning and assessment.
I came across this case study on the Training Packages at Work site. You canalso  view the proforma.
The Bathroom Assessment Project shows teachers […]

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This document from the Department of Education in WA provides some short simple suggestions about ‘traps to watch out for’ in working with competency based assessment.  This could be quite a useful guide for working with teaching teams, just picking out some sections at a time.