Author: Michael Chalk

Progress at Lalor LLC phlogged to the world

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In response to our plea to try out the very simple phone blogging tool, ipadio, Assunta has produced a wonderful progress report on her and Carmela’s e-project. We’ve embedded it here to inspire you to have a go: Thanks very much for participating with enthusiasm and dedication so far, Assunta and Carmela. We look forward to hearing and seeing your presie online or in our June showcase (more on that later…) You can find a previous post about Progress at Lalor here or Search using the new Search Feature (top Read More …

Email with your students? Take it easy, step-by-step

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by Travelin’ Librarian at flickr Here’s a challenging assignment: Chris Mooney came into the teacher room asking for ideas and guidance around setting up email accounts for all her students. Yes, that can be a huge and daunting job, especially if you try to set up all the accounts in one go. [I have tried that, and Never Again is my motto.] So here are some ideas that came up while Chris and i were talking about it: Single group email account1) You could start, not with individual email accounts, but rather with Read More …

How to phone blog with iPadio – Listen to the recording of the webinar

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#1) Live session / workshop – a North West Cafe webinar. One of the simplest ways to get people talking on the web: we’re running a session introducing newcomers to iPadio (phone blogging). Because people have such complicated lives, we’re running it twice. And we’re offering this out to the other regions, so we need to have your RSVP. A hands-on tutorial in making a phone blog using ipadio. For people with absolutely no experience in this wonderfully easy podcasting tool. For e-leaders in the current e-mentors program plus anyone else with Read More …

E-learning at Carlton in focus

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Here’s our latest guest blogger: Sarah Deasey from Carlton NLC. Thanks so much Sarah, and welcome (michael).  Hello this is Sarah. I am the Further Education coordinator at CNLC. There have been many opportunities for development of basic computer and online skills in the last 10 years or more. Past projects include: Skillsnet funding in the Nineties for broad community training; a telematics trust  grant for disability students; and various grants through the flexible learning framework. Most staff have taken up the opportunities with goodwill and a range of enthusiasm.  Read More …

Phone blog your Progress, Part 2: E-skills at Carlton NLC

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Further to the post, Phone blog your Progress, here are some interesting phone blogs kindly shared with us by staff from Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (CNLC). They were asked to describe how the teaching and learning in their ESL classes changed in 2011 with the introduction of internet and the projector into the classrooms. The CNLC ipadio player: The following phone blogs or ‘phlogs’ can be heard by clicking the little red + icon in the bottom right corner of the player (found as you move your mouse over the Read More …

Using the scanner to get text

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Tina came in today wanting to know how to use the scanner. “Aha!” I thought, “Finally an easy question.” Because of course i’d already made a “how to document” for using the flatbed scanner in the teachers’ room. I just need to remember where i’ve saved the file ^_^ How wrong i was. Just as well i looked for the file, because i needed to read it in order to remember how do use the scanner. It’s not intuitive by any stretch of anyone’s imagination. Scanners are rarely intuitive – especially Read More …

Phone blog your progress here via our iPadio phonecast channel

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This post was originally written by Jill Koppel, as part of our North West e-mentor blog. Below is a phone blog posted by Jill to our North West e-Mentors ipadio channel. Phone blogging is very easy to do – once you’re feeling confident with the technology you could even create a channel for your students to use. Please consider joining us here with your first phone blog. Our iPadio channel is open for business: using ipadio you can call a special number (from anywhere in Australia it’s 1800-802569) from either Read More …

The magic & beauty of “RSS feeds” (aka headlines)

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This week, Jill & Michael had a conversation about the mysterious things known as RSS feeds. We covered a  fair bit of ground, including:1) What are they?2) Using google reader to follow many different streams in one place3) Alternatives – follow, friend etc ..but we didn’t get onto this topic4) feeds into wikispaces. RSS is a little-understood phenomenon that can be hugely handy to getting things done, and wading gently through the streams of internet information. Here’s a recording of the session. Here’s the famous “Common Craft” introduction to RSS: Read More …

A conversation with Sue Braggs

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The other week, I opened up the ACFE (LearnLocal) Open House for a repeat session of the introduction to 23 Things, and found Sue Braggs in the room early. (Follow the conversation directly here.) For those who don’t know, Sue was involved in one of the first experiences of this 23 Things approach to learning web2 social technologies, back in 2007. Down East Gippsland way, Denece Sippo from the public library and Jan Roberts from the local adult education provider / community college had joined forces to bring their communities online. Sue started out Read More …