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• outdated infrastructure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.