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Category: e-learning

  • New Youtube Vid

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    Below is the latest video clip of how technology continues to evade our lives. If you don’t think that technology will change how education and training operates then take the 4 plus minutes to watch this and then think about what our world may look like in 5 years. What do you think? Can this…

  • Web 2 Technology and training/teaching

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    I know that many people are confused about the practical uses of web tools like blogs, wikis, twitter and facebook let alone how you could use any of these tools in teaching but a great website has appeared that has some excellent video files explaining each of the tools and how they can be used.…

  • elearning Sucks

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    Watch this slideshow. A very interesting look at elearning and why it really needs to improve. The tools are there, we just need to engage with them and think a little more creatively about our approach to elarning. It is just like a face to face session, the more time you put into preparation the…

  • Speech recognition

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    I made a mention recently in a training session of the impact that speech recognition would have on society and in the education/training sector. I think most of us to date have been frustrated by our brushes with speech recognition, in particular its use in phone services. Imagine the world though where you could just…

  • Moving Sites

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    I thought it would be a good idea to copy an email I received this week in relation to how to copy a google site to another google site location. It has come up in discussion a number of times and maybe useful for some of you at some point. This information came to me…

  • Writing Blogs

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    I often get asked by students why they should write a blog. Occasional in training programs that I have conducted the use of a blog or a reflective learning journal is part of the assessment process and again participants question the reasoning behind having to complete one. Dr Helen Barrett is acknowledged as a world…

  • Virtual classrooms

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    Just by coincidence I came across this blog just after our adobe connect meeting. You might like to try out the open source options in the article or research the paid options. Some of you (those who were online) might have also noted that I put up the link This is the google video/talk option.…

  • What is going on here

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    A very interesting thing happened today. I can actually see you tube video’s at TAFE. I am not sure if this is a mistake or someone out their finally figured out that teachers and adult students have enough grey matter and common sense to be able to use you tube in a sensible way to…

  • Contextualisation, lead and monitor assessment practices for effectiveness…

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    Hi everyone, …I have encountered a mini tutorial, which will show you how to set up and link to a Blog and a Wiki in a learning object downloaded from the Australian Flexible Learning “Framework’s Toolbox Learning Object Repository” Developing customise and use e – learning tool… Presumably, this will be greater emphasis in supporting…

  • New stuff

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    For this blog I thought I would just pass on some ‘things’ that have very recently floated past my screen. This link will send you to the newly released VET E-Portfolio Roadmap. I haven’t had time to read this yet, and I don’t expect much from it but it is more proof of the fact…