Prepare for elearning

Great Sydney TAFE Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI) resource for teachers interested in elearning: Prepare for elearning.

elearning conferences are a great way to keep up with new developments in technologyand keeping in touch with NSW practitioners.

 

 Guidelines for using blogs and wikis & copyright issues 

Prepared by TAFE NSW - Northern Sydney Institute (NSI) Institute Business Support (IBS) division, the guyidelines are debated  in this wiki:

 web2debate

Check section 5 for suggested policies.

 

Your Guide to Social e-learning

Produced by Australia Flexible Networks,Technical Specs © Commonwealth of Australia 2007

 

TAFE Flexiblelearning guidelines on everything copyright:Copyright Kitchen

 

This is the Australian Copyright Council : http://www.copyright.org.au/

 Blogging Mind over Matter seminar done online with Cover IT Live, then recorded and with links to slides and the script available in this blog.

 

Using Multimedia Tools for participation. Fantastic guidelines from UK government on online tools to engage young people.

Assessment

Assessment and Online Teaching flexible learning quick guides

 

Digital Stories

• Stephan's wiki page has brilliant examples and tutorials (including guides by Robyn Jay, who gave us a fantastic workshop some time ago)
• Creating the Connections, a fantastic digital stories resource kit for literacy teachers

 

ESOL Blogging & Podcasting

Presentation given by Rosa OChoa at ATESOL workshop, Sydney 25th August, 2007

 

 

 

Presentation given by Claudia Ceraso at the British Arts Centre (Argentina)

What's a Blog?

Sally MacCarthy's blog about blogging

Podcasting

• Podcasting in Web 2.0 for teaching & learning
• Recordings done by the Centre for Learning Innovation (DET NSW) interviewing Rosa Ochoa about podcasting in ESOL, Sharing and creating with podcast. There are several podcasts and you can access the script.
• Podcasting Guide created by Michael Abulencia, RMIT Melbourne PodcastingGuideVer3_single.pdf

 

 

Podcasts & Vodcasts

• Also by Stephan Ridgeway, Introduction to podcasting and Vblogging in education
• Sue Water's fantastic guides on how to videocast and podcasting in TAFE
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Vodcasting

 

Vimeo videos for ESL

 Second Life

Second life in education

 

cli08 Immersive environment is a wiki by the Centre for Learning Innovation that explores SL in eduction. It provides fantastic examples and tutorials to get you started.

 

 

TLIE

 

a wiki created by the Centre for Learning Innovation for a future project in using SL for teaching and learning.

 

 

 

What are Webheads?

Lisen to this Australian podcast (Sue Waters, Michael Coghlan et al) and you will find out about this great group of teacher-bloggers from all around the worl.

 

What is a Wiki?

Wikipedia tells us all about it

 

Wikis in Plain English 

 

 

Wikis & Blogs in Education

 esl/efl wikis

 Gladys Baya & Claudia Bellusci, August 2007

• Educators ESL wikis a page from pbwiki creator for and by ESL teachers
• Claudia Ceraso's EFL wiki is a repository of written samples and at the same time a place to house her students' portfolios: Corpus
• SJSC_ESL wiki
• A vocabulary wiki with podcasts on different themes: caewords
• International writing exchange, where students from different countries created pages describing their own country.
• Draft Stories a wiki where stories are drafted in a collaborative way. 
• Kristines' wiki as training for teachers to learn about wikis (very good example and excellent tips)

 

other class wikis

 

 

• Environmental project: flatplanet

•  Award winning global collabortative project: flatclassroomproject  
• Social Science: Social907

wikis on wikis in education

• Educators wiki by pbwiki. You can collaborate and write ideas on how to use wikis in th eclassroom, add links, etc. You can get many ideas form other collaborators.

• Lucy Gray's wiki on wikis in the classroom: Classroom 2.0 Wikis

•  Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki! Newtechnologies

• Learning Technology Team Project Wiki! North Coast Institute of TAFE NSW. Wiki Session

• Eric's Class

• Elluminate session on elearning delivery:The New Virtual Classroom, Ruth Clark

•   Conversations amongs teachers about technology in the classroom: The Virtual Staffroom
• Australian host for educational blogs: edublogs
• Graham Satnley's blog on Web2 technology in EFL: BLOG-EFL
• Barbara Dieu's Becoming a Webhead Course
• Bee's (Barbara Dieu) Page
• cogdog
• educators wiki (pbwiki's own educational wiki)

  

Web2

• Web 2.0 for teaching and learning
• ANT resources (TAFE)

•  Sue Water's wiki on Mobile technology in TAFE.

• Stephen's Downes video on Web 2.O and your own learning and Development, the slide show on the same topic * Web 2.0 and Your Own Learning and Development Stephen Downes AND FINALLY his website Stephen's Web worth keeping an eye on.
• What can we do with flickr?

 

Web2 tools

• NSW Learnscope How to Guides
• Podcast Lane, site was developed for the benefit of Public Schools in the Sydney Region of NSW DET. Produced by the Schools IT Services Unit, this interactive site provides multimedia resources for teachers with regular new Podcasts added covering ICT in teaching and learning.
• What can we do with flickr?
• VoiceThread: Classroom 2.0, by MeMyselfI: Photos with written & recorded messages, great for special projects. This is an example by a teacher with other teachers commenting
• Another example of teachers using voicethread, Voicethread in the Classroom
• What is a Wiki?Wikipedia tells us all about it
• slideshare to upload powerpoint slide shows and then link to them or embed them in your blog, wiki or moodle
• vimeo to upload videos and then link to them or embed them in your blog, wiki or moodle
• bubbleshare to create slide shows even with voice
• flickrto upload photos and then link to them or embed them in your blog, wiki or moodle
• Robyn Jay's Gettign Started in Flickr guide
• **flickrCC** helps you find creative commons pictures in flickr and attribute them easily
• this wiki (adavis) also has excellent hints on how to use and attribute photos for your blog/wiki
• **Quick Topic** for a class forum linked to in your blog or wiki
• **Picasa** (Hello) for photos too, but it allows you to group them in collages, etc.
• Check **How to podcast** to find out some of the software you can use
• blip tv to publish videos
• mobblog to send photos, video and text from your mobile phone
• AVS4you and erightsoft.com to convert your video files into various formats
• Twitter, Australian elearningtwits
• skitch an easy-t-use screen capture program
• Check Learning technology teacher development blog for ideas on web2.0 uses in ESL teaching
• teachingwithflickr, MIchael Coghlan's wiki

PD online

• Australian Flexible Learning Framework e-tools & tips

Lectures/podcasts on related topics

Geroge Siemens NSW LearnScope showcase elearning06 keynote address (on Stephan Ridgeway's blog)