Warning: specialised technical info relating to web conferencing in Blackboard Collaborate: Don’t know how many people will find this useful, but Leo just asked if i knew how to do this, so i made a quick visual help file. Yes, unfortunately you’ll need to do this for every session you set up. Unless someone else knows how to create a default exit URL. Here’s a link to the PDF file hosted at google docs.
Carole McCulloch is terrific. She used to work at the very amazing TAFE Frontiers, which was a kind of professional development peak body for e-learning in Victoria. They were hugely supportive of Adult Community Education (ACE) organisations at the time. Coach Carole has been involved in the LearnLocal / ACE e-learning mentor project since the beginning, and when Carole runs a session .. you want to be there. So today, at midday Friday 07 September, make sure you catch her session on “Inspiring and engaging learners with voice tools .. Read More …
Exciting news. The next round of Victorian ACE / LearnLocal e-learning mentor projects (aka “e-mentor”) have begun. Projects are conducted according to adult education regions around Victoria**. And because each regional mentor team has their own online presence such as a blog or wiki, we’re looking for ways to tie all the headline threads together. So i’m conducting an experiment with a Yahoo RSS joiner called “Pipes”. Here’s a scrolling feed of the latest headlines. Now to see if i can display multiple headlines without scrolling… [rss-news-display setting=”1″] I’ve Read More …
Great news everyone. There’s a new round of e-learning projects about to be underway in the North-West LearnLocal region. Some organisations are returning, while others have been participating at the edges, and a few are complete newcomers to our network. Welcome one and all. Here’s the list of starters: Australian Multicultural Community Services Community West Inc Glenroy Neighbourhood Learning Centre Jesuit Social Services trading as Jesuit Community College Lalor Living and Learning Centre Laverton Community Integrated Services Inc. Richmond Community Learning Centre South Kingsville Community Center Yarraville Community Centre It’s Read More …
Kate M, one of the brilliant English as a second language (ESL) teachers at PRACE is thinking about using a blog to connect with her students. We talked about a few different ways to approach the idea: (NB: You can find these ideas also in a larger document over here at google docs.) Start with a single blog in broadcast mode. Put the teaching and learning activities up and send students to read or listen there. Dale Pobega’s ESL Club is a great example of this. Embed a video into Read More …
Jane Hart has been researching teachers’ favourite technologies for teaching and learning for the past 5 years (UK). Here’s a slideshow of the world’s top 100 tools for learning (2011). What are your top 5 tools for learning? You have around 15 days to vote in the 2012 poll, via this link here. What do you think of the list? Please add your comment below. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 from Jane Hart
I wrote before how Chris Mooney was trialling some email activities with her English as a second language (ESL) group. And i’d promised to make an easy-to-read visual guide to creating a google / gmail account. So here it is: Link to the PDF document in google docs (..where you can download and print a copy – i’ve printed it in booklet form on A3 paper). The guide is licensed creative commons (cc-nc-sa) feedback very welcome. I tried to embed the file directly here: it works, but then the page Read More …
Here’s one that’s too good to miss: via the TDC (Tafe Devt Corp), Brad Beach from GippsTafe talks about Online Facilitation. Brad has been one of the truly significant leaders in this field for some time, and GippsTafe have run great workshops in online facilitation. Online facilitation is one of the major skillsets that i think people often overlook as they get into setting up online communities and networks. Whether it’s real time web-conferencing (synchronous) or round-the-clock discussion forums (asynchronous), there are many strategies you can collect and develop to help Read More …
You may not be able to attend the Bendigo e-learning LearnLocal conference in person, but you can attend virtually. Happening Tomorrow!!Friday 27 July Via the ACE e-learning network, register for sessions. Whether or not you’ve experienced web conferencing via the connection of “Blackboard Collaborate”, you can always jump in and have a go. Attend a conference from your desk. The main event page here [Link]. (login required, it’s via the ACE e-learning network) Sessions via the network event page. Some great sessions on offer, more information via these links: Panel Session Read More …
Following on from that exciting ‘Advanced’ WIKI webinar in which nothing seemed to go right, I decided to produce a screencast on the topic of setting your Notifications to receive emails when someone posts a Discussion. Notifications are a powerful feature that makes your wiki interactive: everyone can follow the latest addition of content and discuss these collaboratively. At CNLC when a new member joins the Staffroom I advocate that the Notifications are set so that the new person can join in to group activities effectively. However, we’ve fallen behind Read More …