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 […]
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useful summary page of current Google tools and suggestions about how they can be used in education.
Today I participated in an Elluminate session by Alex Hayes on moblogging
Some introductory thoughts and prompts from Alex are available at
http://alexanderhayes.wikispaces.com/17082006
Before the session started we were sent some SMS and MMS messages which got me thinking about experiencing this as a student which was something new for me.
DUring the session we explored various issues and […]
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From K Boan, via James Farmer, comes this handout on Blogging in Wordpress, using the edublogs.org / learnerblogs.org services.
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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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Social computing, personal broadcasting, mobile phone use, educational gaming, augmented reality and enhanced visualisation are the six emerging trends identified as likely to have a significant impact in higher education. This annual research report, produced by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, is part of the continuing work of […]
link to pdf From Educause
“A screencast is a screen capture of the actions on a user’s computer
screen, typically with accompanying audio, distributed through RSS. In the same way that a screenshot is a static representation of a computer screen at a point in time, a screencast captures what happens on a monitor over a period […]
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 […]
After a quick coffee, we spoke around the table about the things that struck a chord with us.
Our table flagged Simplicity, Sharing of IP (no value in owning content unless information is commercial in confidence, you can find duplicates of most information easily, no ‘handout’ is irreplacable), and Horizontal facilitation which is learners learning from […]
John Mitchell’s introduction included a quote from Friedman, we need to be “working smarter and smarter rather than cheaper and harder”
new ideas need to be connected back to the fundamentals
‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on your foot’ - Dale Spender
At the start of Nigel’s session he asked us to put down […]
link to website (requires free registration for “Back to Basics”)
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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PodPress is a plugin for WordPress to make publishing a podcast feed much easier from Dan Kuykendall of http://www.mightyseek.com/ if I ever get around to podcasting this looks like it wouldl make it all quite easy.
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“Campfire lets you set up secure, password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, a colleague, or a vendor to a chat. Set up a room on your intranet for internal communications. Conduct meetings with people around the world. The uses are plentiful. Up to 40 people can chat at once. […]
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Alan Levine writes about a recent presentation to teaching staff, reinforcing a thought of mine that introducing the new technologies needs to include time for use of the tools themselves as learners and then reflection about how the tools can be used in their practice.
There also seems (and others can confirm/hoot down) to […]
