Tag: Web2 tools

Evernote everywhere

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It’s awhile since I promoted a web tool in this blog – but I’ve become a convert to Evernote, not just because the folks at Evernote proudly promote it with a video showing Jack and Jill (Jill’s the smart one with Evernote, Jack’s got sticky notes all over the place and is totally disorganised!). Evernote is widely used for grouping your Notes (free text) in Notebooks (folders of related notes) across platforms on a PC or Mac and synchronised to your Netbook/ laptop, iphone (apparently – I don’t have one Read More …

Let’s Google it!

Michael Chalk1 CommentUncategorized

It seems that not only has ‘Google’ entered the English language as a verb describing the most ubiquitous web searching tool/ process on the planet, but its other components are becoming equally obligatory work tools. This year is the Year of Google Documents: not only can you share your docs in the cloud but you can invite others to collaborate, that is, to edit them anywhere anytime – even simultaneously whilst you’re working on the very same one! Other must-have features include: a neat Revisions History that reveals each editor’s Read More …

The Ten Step Wiki Plan

Michael ChalkLeave a commentprofessional development, Uncategorized

Now that we’ve nearly finished our round of initial site visits to the 11 centres involved in the E-mentor project in 2011, it seems that the Ten Step Wiki Plan originally developed for staff at Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (CNLC) last year to identify component e-skills has universal and immediate application for a number of centres. If you’re thinking of starting and developing a wiki for students or for staff, or even generally building people’s e-skills for producing internet-ready teaching resources, then this stepped plan will be useful to you. Read More …

Mindmapping tool

Michael Chalk5 CommentsUncategorized

As you work through your e-plan you may want to mindmap some of your ideas to assist with the layout or design. There is nothing worse than starting the site and changing your mind half way through or forgetting to insert a page! Ann likes mindmapping as a technique as it is essentially creating a storyboard where I create connectors that will become my pages or external links. Michael has been using the free tool called FreeMind Portable. This is a mindmapping tool that allows you to effectively brainstorm your Read More …

September 15 and 23 Induction sessions: ideas for possible projects

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Jill starts:  I really enjoyed meeting the new project participants today, and, of course, seeing a few who are continuing from last year. In the short time available to brainstorm the vast realm of everything ‘e’, we mapped our different students and contexts, identifying immediate needs and a range of ‘wish list’ skills and possible projects. Centres and course covered: vocational and pre-vocational certificates, VCAL, ESL Certificates and a range of short courses (too numerous to mention). Needs included: communication technology for web conferencing (online staff meetings, verification meetings, VCE Read More …

E-projects in 2010: ‘North West Cafe’ opens for business

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Just to give an idea of what happened last year, the following organisations participated: ACE NING North west Cafe Group Olympic Adult Education (OAE) Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association (AVWA) Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (CNLC) Span Community House (in Thornbury) Yooralla (Flinders Lane, City of Melbourne) Thornbury Women’s Neighbourhood House (TWNH) Diamond Valley Learning Centre (DVLC) Participants explored a number of tools via the Victoria-wide web conferencing workshops that we conducted on: wiki for content management, Moodle course management, voice technologies and Flip video. We also arranged some site visits to Read More …