Victorian e-learning innovations: mid-year sessions

i’ve just listened to the mid-year presentations for the Victorian e-learning innovations.. As well as our own “flexivet” project (flexible delivery in ACE), here are my highlights from all the interesting projects out there..

• Lynne Gibb presents: Coonara Community House using collaborative wiki, flip camera and MP3 players to build up resources for learning cultural diversity.
• Martin Bride from OnTrack in the Wimmera region: delivering literacy at a distance via wiki, with volunteer literacy tutors (Certificate of General Education for Adults (CGEA). A hugely challenging idea, given how difficult it can be to engage adult literacy learners who often have bad experience of schooling. (Some background: this link is worth reading: Martin led the AccessACE research for OnTrack in 2007, examining ways to deliver literacy at distance.
• David Cumming from VUT: trialling both flip cameras and pov glasses for enhancing learning in trades..
• Sean Norrey from Kangan told us about using Wii on a PC mixed with flash programming for teaching people the skills of spraypainting..
• Reece working with firefighters using wordpress to create reflective connections for learning after scenario play.
• Sarah Philips with Bendigo Health has seen plenty of alternatives to youtube, and needs to decide on 4 of them to evaluate and trial; YouTube just isn’t good enough for their clients who need content filters, safety options, branding, customer service..

Elluminate can be a good way to meet up with people.. and it can be challenging too.  One challenge is knowing whether you’re audible or not (hence the title here: Give me Smilies if you can hear me).

Another challenge: while there were plenty of interesting presentations, i struggled to work out who was talking and where they were from, because

• having multiple speakers switched on means that we don’t see the name of the speaker in the talk box, and
• several people didn’t say their name or the place they came from.

So i ended up switching between the Victorian projects page to decipher who might be talking at the time.

Hello dear reader: a question for you: What are the challenges you’ve experienced in live web conferencing places?

.. best regards, michael

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