Monday, 23 July 2007

e-Designer Clint Workshop

10:28 am | Posted by Service Industries Training Advisory Council
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...
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Thursday, 19 July 2007

Second Life Wonders

9:16 am | Posted by Service Industries Training Advisory Council
Hi all,

I'm still actively exploring the wonderful world of Second Life. I have come across quite the range of interesting places. Georgina Nou from DeadlyMob and I meet up in there quite frequently. Here we are in an amazing place, built with Liquid Art. Don't ask me to explain, because as yet I'm not too sure what it means myself.

To date my all time favourite place that I have stumbled across in my second life travels so far, is the Realm of Everwind. It's a Role Play Sim, where you are able to participate as a role play character in the following races:

  • Human - Good and Evil
  • Dwarf - Good
  • Orc - Evil
  • Elf - Good
  • Drow - Evil
  • Faery - Good and Evil
(Reference for races from: http://everwindrealm.blogspot.com/)


As part of the role play you are able to join a guild, perform Quests, meet people, create mischief and generally just have a lot of fun. I have met quite an intersting aray of people who have been helping me along my way.
I can definately see a use for Second Life in Vocational Education and Training by setting up secure worlds for students in which, role play, Second Life quests and a world rich of information can be utilised to support flexible training delivery.

It's been an interesting journey and I look forward to sharing more of it with you.

Cheers
Kat


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Tuesday, 17 July 2007

Greetings from Alice

3:00 pm | Posted by Melanie Brenton



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
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007

REINT visit 6 July 2007

8:22 am | Posted by Service Industries Training Advisory Council
Learnscope 2007

REINT, visit by Katharina Gerste and Marcus Ragus on 6th July 2007.

Attending ( Workshop participants ) :

Marcus Ragus - TAFE Tasmania
Katharina Gerste - Service Industries TAC
Janine Brown - REINT

Teams Involved

Location: REINT Office

Proceedings / Times
9.00am - 12.00pm

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. How to better deliver their Real Estate course to their external students in Darwin, Katherine, Nhulunbuy and Alice Springs using an interactive power point. 90% of students are external.

Marcus will address the following during this Workshop ;
  • Better use of power points to effectively deliver to their external students
  • Taking Janine through how to link Power Point slides
  • Embed audio files
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Chamber of Commerce visit 5 July 2007

8:12 am | Posted by Service Industries Training Advisory Council
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.

Marcus will address the following during this Workshop ;

  • Spoke about Framework projects and where it could take the Chamber in future
  • SD cards- and what can be done with them, using them as a personal learning environment
  • Using Learning management systems on a PD- platforms, which you could use
  • Barcoding
  • Talked about Tiddlywiki, how to use it- considering use for TRAC students
  • Smart Tags, Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFID’s)- how they can be used, different applications
  • Marcus demonstrated how to use the GPS system on a PD, and how it could be used for assessment
  • Demonstrated m-Territory website
  • Marcus proposed to involve the Chamber Team in the e-mania Network
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Chamber visit 30 June 2007

8:09 am | Posted by Service Industries Training Advisory Council
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.
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The Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) provides the vocational education and training (VET) system with essential e-learning infrastructure and expertise needed to respond to the challenges of a modern economy and the training needs of Australian businesses and workers. Through the Framework, the NT VET Community has access to:

NT E-learning Coordinator
NT E-learning Innovations Coordinator
NT Toolbox Champion

To find out more about these three great services available to RTOs, Industry and workers in the Northern Territory please contact Melanie Brenton on (08) 8942 1651 or email melb at sitac.com.au.

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