What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

It is coming to that time again where you will need to complete a final report for your projects to receive final payment for the excellent work that you have all done this year.

To get your final reporting template, please contact Kat on 8942 1651. Once you have completed the template, rename it final_report_.doc and send through to admin@sitac.com.au by 30 November 2007. There will NOT be a requirement to present online.

This report template mirrors the online survey you are also required to complete. Use this same information to complete your online survey which is due by 23 November 2007.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Melanie Brenton on 08 8942 1651.

Report on ELearning Showcase in NT
Below is my report from last week’s Flexible Learning Framework e-learning Showcase. The most important session was probably the last where the new funding opportunities and the changes to the FLF were spoken about.

My own session was ok but I tried something new - wanted to get away from the boring old powerpoint so made a timed imovie as stimulus visual while I talked. Ended up I was so nervous and misjudged my audience a little - they wanted to know tools, I gave them reflection... Ah well, part of the learning journey - know thy audience!

2008 funding
Shift to integration and embedding rather than individual learning.
Focus is on e-learning in training providers and businesses, capitalising on the knowledge and information created to date.
Guidelines still in development – more coming in next month or so and call for submissions in January.
There are 10 industry engagement programs up for grabs of $100,000 each.
Must engage industry, must use things that already exist. (Education and training is an industry)
Funding able to go over more than one year.
NT will also have its own share of funding to give out.
They are happy for us to work with them to develop our proposal.

Report:
Online - http://ntelearningshowcase07.wikispaces.com/ for session recordings and notes.

Highlights and ideas
Allan Levine – keynote - http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/sets/72157600226433215/show/ (great slideshow); Alan's wiki http://cogdogroo.pbwiki.com/
Alan's Blog (great read) http://cogdogblog.com/
This guy is amazing for his enthusiasm and real world approach to it all. He’s inspiring.

Tools and ideas he shared: (see his wiki for links to everything)
Twitter – constant contact media – messages to email/mobile – possible solution to some of our connectivity issues

Networks are the key – develop your online network and you can find the answer to anything

Connectivism – the new theory – resonates with our both-ways philosophy

Flickr – large online repository of images free to use with attribution

Second life

Webstories – lots of free tools to turn slideshows into talking books!

Marvin
Program now shared with Microsoft – free for education use – www.marvin.com.au/school

CHARTTES (Tourism) - Cath Curry and Top End Groove
Using competency navigator for completing RPL applications and mapping – we could buy this!
Used digital stories as evidence for RCC.
Elluminate has free virtual meeting rooms for up to three people.

Second life
Go to Jokaydia for a guided tour for educators.

Pancultural-e – IAD
Amazing project – cultural awareness program. Developed a walking tour of Alice Springs using GPS navigators to trigger audio. Lots of ideas here about creating pod/vod tours for students/staff as orientation; walking tour of our art collection; library; instructions for e.g. Getting a student card.

SITAC's Podcasts

Give it a listen!

Technology and You - Telstra Shop Winnellie




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

SITAC's Podcasts

Give it a listen!

Induction: On-Line - In Time - Alan Weston, John Holland




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC


Wiki Address: http://ntelearningshowcase07.wikispaces.com/John+Holland+Presentation

SITAC's Podcasts

Give it a listen!

The Time is Now - Danielle Prior, Chamber of Commerce NT




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Wiki Address: http://ntelearningshowcase07.wikispaces.com/Chamber+Video

SITAC's Podcasts

Give it a listen!

Training for Change - Skycity & CHARTTES Training Advisory Council




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Wiki Address: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/CHARTTES

SITAC's Podcasts

Give it a listen!

CAETN Network by Alicia Boyle




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC


Wiki Address: http://ntelearningshowcase07.wikispaces.com/CAETN+Presentation

SITAC's Podcasts

Give it a listen!

Pancultural-e - Fred Richardson




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC


Wikispace Address: http://ntelearningshowcase07.wikispaces.com/IAD+Presentation

SITAC's Podcasts

Give it a listen!

Truths From The Trench - Do today's technologies really deliver? - Bill Wade




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Wiki Address: http://ntelearningshowcase07.wikispaces.com/Bill+Wade+Presentation

SITAC's Podcasts

Give it a listen!

Welcome and intro Day 2




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC


Digital Wrap Up from Day 1

Service Industries' podcast
Give it a listen!
JoKay - Get a Second Life! - Exploring the educational possibilities of a virtual world


Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Presentation wiki: http://ntelearningshowcase07.wikispaces.com/Second+Life+Presentation

Service Industries' podcast
Give it a listen!
http://www.podOmatic.com/link/450569087595d32fc609a8f9059f18d6


Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

e-Learning @ Yidiyu wiki: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/NT+PFES

Service Industries' podcast
Give it a listen!
Cathy Curry - Working from Strengths


Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Wikispace Address:

SITAC's Podcasts
Give it a listen!
Bringing animation to education and learning to life (the Microsoft Partners in Learning MARVIN(TM) initiative) - Andrew Hodges


Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Web: www.marvin.com.au

Service Industries' podcast
Give it a listen!
REINT - Unreal Realty a Reality


Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Wikispace: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/REINT

Service Industries' podcast

Give it a listen!

Melodie Bat - Taking the e-Option




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Service Industries' podcast

Give it a listen!

Alan Levine - 50 Ways to tell a Web Story Presentation Day 1




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Alan's Spaces:

Wiki: http://cogdogroo.pbwiki.com/
Blog: http://cogdogblog.com/
Wiki for this presentation: http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways

Service Industries' podcast

Give it a listen!

Alan Levine - Being There




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

Alan's Spaces:
Wiki: http://cogdogroo.pbwiki.com/
Blog: http://cogdogblog.com/

Service Industries' podcast

Give it a listen!

2007 NT Showcase Intro and Welcome by Minister




Enjoy! -- Service Industries TAC

The 2007 Northern Territory E-learning Showcase – Expanding Choices commences with international keynote presenter Alan Levine. Recognised as a leading enthusiast on using emerging technologies for teaching and learning, Alan ‘barks and growls’ about ‘cool technology’ on CogDogRoo.

Alan has spent years promoting creative uses of technology in learning for the Maricopa Community Colleges, in Arizona. In his current work for the New Media Consortium, Alan is involved in using a campus on Second Life (a 3D online virtual world) to explore educational gaming and the potential of virtual world environments.

• flexible solutions for building a skilled workforce


• innovative ways to use technolgoy to save time and money


• applications that make training and learning FUN


• web 2.0 – how it can be good for business.

Event details: 25-26 October 2007, International Room, Sky City Casino, Darwin, NT

Expanding Choices is facilitated by the Service Industries Training Advisory Council on behalf of the Department of Employment Education and Training and the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.

For full program details, please go to http://ntelearningshowcase07.wikispaces.com/

Cost:
Showcase one day (25 or 26 October) $30
Total event (25 and 26 October) $50

To register please contact:
Marise Riddell
Phone: (08) 8942 1651
Email: info@sitac.com.au

Register by COB 19 October 2007

I must say it has been an intersting two days with Marlene Manto from TAFE SA, who has been in Darwin to teach us Digital Storytelling and to go through other Innovative Practices in a training environment.

Day 1 saw us through different tools that may make our life just that little bit simpler by using free web2.0 technologies. Marlene did mention to be mindful of the fact that sometimes you might find a tool you really like, that 6 months later might not work anymore due to being developed by practicing uni students etc. But that most will be there for the long run the more people use them and realise how valuable they can be.

To see what we covered on day 1 go to http://darwinworkshops.wikispaces.com/.

Day 2 continued with more exciting exercises such as speed dating and through to making participants think about their own training/teaching practices.

Participants were asked to think about and to answer "What they were going to do with elearning as of Monday?" Not just I am going to start using it, but exactly what they are going to do and the purpose of it.

To listen to Participant Recordings click here.

Ever wondered how you can create powerful training resources?
What exactly is meant by innovative Practices?
How do you embed e-Learning into your workplace?

No idea or want to know more, then come along to this fantastic intensive 2 day workshop that will cover just that.

Please click here for Workshop Agenda.

Where: Australian Technical College, Lvl 1/ 47 Stuart Hwy Stuart Park 0820 above Dick Smiths Electronics
When: 13 and 14 September
Time: 8.30am to 3.00pm both days


If you would like to register, please do so by return email or call 08 8942 1651.

Day 2 will take us into the world of podcasting using Podomatic.com. Participants will have a go at recording a snippet of audio, edit it in Audacity and upload it into their podomatic account. Participants will also get a chance to mash all of their sites together to create a linked and effective network of the online spaces they have created. As well as sharing these with the other workshop participants by adding them to their network.

Herewith I leave you with a link to Robyns Space for this particular workshop, which covers all the amazing tools that we have dabbled in over the last 2 days.

http://robynjay.wikispaces.com/darwin

Robyn Jay from DET NSW has joined us in Darwin to deliver a workshop on Connected voices: connected learning. For full details on the workshop go to http://robynjay.wikispaces.com/darwin.

So far today we have gone through what each participants needs are, who they are, their online identity and what they wish to get out of the workshop by the end of day 2.


Issues and needs that have been identified by Individuals are:

• teaching on the run
• doing more with less
• flexibility
• limited access
• School issues
• open vs closed
• focus on application vs pedagogy
• distance
• bandwidth/ dial up
• isolated learners = real people
• outdated infrastructure
• generational differences
• time constraints

Outcomes identified by the group are:

• online options
• real uses
• new ways to help clients
• podcasting
  ---> voice

After the introductions we watched a YouTube video explaining very creatively how Web 2.0, to watch the video go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE.

We also watched a very interestingly set out video explaining RSS feeds at http://blip.tv/file/get/Leelefever-RSSInPlainEnglish369.flv.

After morning tea, participants will launch into creating a protopage to begin with creating their own online presence, which they can use to store RSS feeds to their favourite sites and blogs and all sorts of other exciting add ons.

Tagging, delicious, protopage, RSS and use of the Feedraider aggregation tool, flickr, wikispaces, blogger and podcasting

Heard of all of these things, but wouldn’t know what to do with them?

Then this workshop is for you!!!

Learn how to use all of these tools together, to create an effective and creative learning environment and how to apply these tools with your learners.

When: 16 and 17 August 2007

Where: Australian Technical College, Lvl 1/ 47 Stuart Hwy Stuart Park 0820 above Dick Smiths Electronics

Time: Full day on day 1 and half day on day 2, Time to be announced

If you would like to register, please do so by return email or call 08 8942 1651.

CONFUSED ABOUT COPYRIGHT?

Then this workshop is or for you!!!

SITAC is running a FREE Copyright Kitchen Professional Development Workshop on the 9th of August in the SITAC Boardroom at Winlow House on 75 Woods St Darwin. Topics that will be covered are as follows:

Copyright Kitchen
Just in time learning about copyright, a simple tool to add to your resources. This workshop gives an overview behind the development of the copyright kitchen and the logic it uses. Then the workshop will look at the kitchen, how to identify your ingredients and cook your questions to come up with an answer to your copyright inquiry.

Copyright Essentials
Copyright like most things has changed a lot recently, particularly in the education sector. The online environment has opened a lot of opportunities, such as digital resources, chat rooms, bulletin boards and online repositories, but it has also brought responsibilities. A major player in information law is copyright, this session will briefly explore how the copyright law applies in the education and online environment, and the practical considerations in managing education in today’s vocational environment.

Workshop 2:
The who owns what dilemma, and what can they do with it. Whether you are a private provider or a public one, that intangible area of quality service, what your learners learn that makes them valuable to employers, branding is important. This workshop explores the copyright issues of this area, who owns materials developed, and what can the provider – teacher/trainer do with them.

If you are interested in attending please contact Katharina on 08 8942 1651 or admin@sitac.com.au to register. Please see attached for Workshop agenda.

Today we have been graced by the presence of Clint Smith from Victoria. Over the course of the 2 days that Clint is with us in Darwin he will cover Designing e-Learning see http:designing.flexiblelearning.net.au for support materials, strategies and examples.


The workshop kicked off with a group exercise to find out what e-learning means to each participant. It then continued into a session on how the Designing e-Learning website was started and the different categories of e-Learning that were researched and what each category means.

Participants were then asked to introduce themself and their organisation and to briefly state how their organisation currently uses e-Learning or is intending to use e-Learning.

Clint then gave a brief Overview on the Designing e-Learning website and where content can be found and to the sites intended use.


To be continued...

Hi all,

• Human - Good and Evil
  
• Dwarf - Good
  
• Orc - Evil
  
• Elf - Good
  
• Drow - Evil
  
• Faery - Good and Evil

I've been in Alice Springs over the last couple of days visiting the Institute for Aboriginal Development to catch up with Lee Ting and see how their LearnScope project was progressing. They are going great guns with lots of new things being learnt, and very little time to do it in!!

I was able to let Lee Ting know that there was a CAETN (watch this space for the red hot link to DesEd space, says Alicia Boyle) workshop with the wonderful Bill Wade happening the very next day - demystifying the world of audio. Exactly the sort of thing that Lee Ting said she was interested in.


In the workshop the next day, Bill not only showed people the intricacies of audio101, but introduced people to the wonderful world of blogging. By 3pm, everyone, even the self identified newbies, were ignoring Bill and happily blogging away. A fantastic outcome.





Bill shows Gail from Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, a finer point of the world of the blogger.





It's not been that cold in Alice, but it was a challenge pulling out the winter woolies to cope with the milder temperatures of the red centre.

Cheers
NT Melanie
LearnScope Manager for the Northern Territory

Learnscope 2007

• Better use of power points to effectively deliver to their external students
• Taking Janine through how to link Power Point slides
• Embed audio files

Learnscope 2007

Chamber of Commerce NT, visit by Katharina Gerste and Marcus Ragus on 5th July 2007.

Attending ( Workshop participants ) :

Marcus Ragus - TAFE Tasmania
Katharina Gerste - Service Industries TAC
Danielle Prior - Chamber of Commerce NT
Collette Murphy - Chamber of Commerce NT
Rea Bundock - Chamber of Commerce NT
Chelsea Chisolm-Espie Chamber of Commerce NT

Teams Involved
01 The Time is Now

Location: Chamber Office

Proceedings / Times
12.30pm - 4.00pm

Meeting : Proposed Delivery

A taster in m-Learning to see how it can be applied with their students and to find out about its uses in a training environment.

Learnscope 2007

Chamber of Commerce, visit by Katharina Gerste on 6th June 2007.

Teams Involved
01 The Time is Now

Location: Chamber of Commerce Office

Meeting : with Collette and Danielle

• discussed team progress
• Girls had some trouble with their Blogger account, tried to resolve. No solution as yet, may need to consult with IT team.

Hello everyone,

Learnscope 2007

Institute for Aboriginal Development, visit by Katharina Gerste on 6th June 2007.

Teams Involved
03 Pancultural-e

Location: IAD Alice Springs

Meeting : with Fred Richardson

• discussed team progress
• Fred showed me what Li Ting has been working on
• introduced to Gavan, the text editor for the project

Exciting stuff going on as part of this project. Definately watch this space!

LearnScope 2007

NT Police Fire and Emergency Services, visit by Katharina Gerste on 25th May 2007.

Attending ( Workshop participants ):
Katharina Gerste - Service Industries TAC
Kym Dixon - NT PFES

Teams Involved 05 http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/NT+PFES

Location: SITAC Office

Proceedings / Times
9.30pm - 11.30pm

Meeting : Proposed Delivery

Katharina will address the following during this meeting:

- How to start a blog and customisation of your blogs look using Blogger.com
- Inviting Project Team members to your Blog
- Other cool tools for Project use, such as Flickr, Delicious, Photobucket

There has been some confusion as to what site to use for what purpose.

As discussed at the induction Workshop, please note that the following sites are for these purposes:

Project Wiki: Solely for entering your project plan information
Project Blog: to keep track of your Projects progress, which can be a journal entry of any team meetings that were held, some useful resources you have discovered to support your project, frustrations, successes, milestones etc
LearnScope Forum on EdNA: For me to distribute information to you and your teams, for team members to post to, to add resources, start discussions, ask questions etc

I hope this has helped you in clearing up what site to use for what. Please note that is you start any other online site as part of your project e.g Flickr page to upload your photos, youtube site to upload your videos (or google video), anything like this. Please make sure you add the link for this onto your project wiki under Online presences.

Any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me or Melanie.

The NT Flexible Learning projects have kicked off and are well under way with most having held their first team meetings.

Team progress can be tracked through the Project Wikis and Project Blogs which are as follows:

Chamber of Commerce:
Blog: http://thetimeisnow07.blogspot.com/
Wiki: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/NT+Chamber+of+Commerce

CHARRTES Training Advisory Council:
Blog: http://trainingforchange.blogspot.com/
Wiki: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/CHARTTES

Institute for Aboriginal Development:
Blog: http://pancultural-e.blogspot.com
Wiki: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/IAD

Real Estate Institute of the NT
Blog: http://unrealrealtyareality.blogspot.com/
Wiki: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/REINT

NT Police Fire and Emergency Services:
Blog: http://e-learningatyidiyu.blogspot.com/
Wiki: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/NT+PFES

Melodie Bat (Individual Project):
Blog: www.xanga.com/dragonbat
Wiki: http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/Melodie+Bat

Learnscope 2007

Chamber of Commerce, visit by Katharina Gerste on 19th April 2007.

Attending ( Workshop participants ) :
Katharina Gerste - Service Industries TAC
Danielly Prior - Chamber of Commerce NT
Collette Murphy - Chamber of Commerce NT
Yva Woerle - Chamber of Commerce NT
Rea Bundock - Chamber of Commerce NT

Teams Involved - 01 The Time is Now

Location: Chamber of Commerce Office

Proceedings / Times
1pm - 3pm - Hands on Demonstrations and opportunities for practice

Meeting : Proposed Delivery

Katharina will address the following during this meeting:

- How to start a blog and customisation of your blogs look using Blogger.com
- Adding information to the NT LearnScope wikispace and uploading files
- Adding team members to the National LearnScope Frappr map

It’s that time again where we all get together for our first official meeting of the year. Please note that the Induction Workshop is being held @ the SITAC boardroom next week Wednesday the 4th of April 2007. This workshop is compulsory for all LearnScope team projects and Individual projects. At least two of your team members (the manager and facilitator) must attend this workshop.

Please click here to view the Induction Program. On this program please pay particular attention to the list at the bottom of the page, which tells you what you are required to bring for the day.

As part of this workshop you are required to share 2 stories with the group (see Induction program). Here is a link to a fantastic video on YouTube about storytelling that may get the thinking progress started for you in how you are going to tell your story and what you will include. Go to http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ira+glass+storytelling. Please note your stories will be recorded on the day to be posted to the NT LearnScope wiki on your project page. So have a really good think about what it is you are going to talk about.

If you have not done so already, please note that all LearnScopers need to be registered to the NT LearnScope Forum on EdNA Groups, as this is our main method of getting information through to you and this also gives you a chance to share your information with the other LearnScopers. Attached is a step by step guide on how to do this. If you need any assistance, please do not hesitate to give me a buzz. Please encourage your team members to join. If you would like to have a Forum set up especially for your team in which you will share information about your project with us, please let me know and I will arrange this for you.

If you have any queries in relation to this email or the up-coming Induction Workshop, please do not hesitate to contact either myself or Melanie.

Please RSVP your attendance and that of any additional project team members to me by Monday the 2nd of April, so that we may organize catering as required.