Podcast - customer service

Today Rea and myself did a podcast on customer service, we presented it in the form of a radio conversation. We used our radio identities Esme' and Rockie!!!

We will be putting it on a ipod, and Collette will be trailling it with her Vet in Schools students on Wednesday. We think it will be a useful tool in delivery units especially to the 'y generation'.

I am keen to hear what they think, as this will make learning more flexible.

Comic Story Boards

We've been corresponding with Marcus Ragus in Tasmania over the last couple of days and he's been assisting us creating story boards. He referred us to a cool site called wittycomics.com and we've created a few story boards on customer service. Below are some links. We want to put these on to RFID tags and trial them on our VET in Schools students.

http://www.wittycomics.com/comic/30472
http://www.wittycomics.com/comic/30470
http://www.wittycomics.com/comic/30469

M-learning with Marcus Ragus

The LearnScope team of the Chamber of Commerce NT has sourced an alliance with one of the most renowned m-learning guru's of Australia - Marcus Ragus from TAFE Tasmania.

Over the last month we have been e-corresponding with Marcus to implement an innovative idea using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) tags in the training environment.

The team have begun to confirm ideas with Marcus and Daniel (IT Technician) using live Elluminate sessions and will now be building a story board together using moodle (EdNA). Once our resources are built Daniel will be forwarding a Smart-Table for us to trail with our VET in schools students.

This could be an e-learning breakthrough for the Darwin community. How exciting!!

Audacity

This is our Audacity test:

http://chelsea_espie.podOmatic.com/entry/2007-08-16T17_51_17-07_00

The preparation for our podcasting. Now we're going to look at putting this onto an iPod.

Blogs, Wikis, Flickr & Protopage

Today we are at the Australian Technical College for another workshop! I have created, for the first time, my own wikispace, flickr account, del.icio.us and a protopage!!!!!!

Our workshop is being facilitated by Robyn Jay from TAFE NSW in Sydney.

We have discussed among ourselves how we could use some of these resources in our work at the Chamber. Our main idea was to create a common protopage for our current TAA students and this page could include:

+ A calendar with all important upcoming dates
+ Bokmarks for links to websites such as EdNA, NTIS and the Chamber NT website
+ A direct link to the current Chamber TAA timetable
+ Podcasts from a variety of workshops

Tomorrow morning we will be learning about podcasting - something that we've been waiting to learn since the beginning of our project.

To view my flickr page, use the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reabundock

protopages, wikispaces, flickr....... etc

Today we went to a workshop at the Technical College it was run by Robyn Jay, it was fabulous we had a lot of hands on activities, in the areas listed below:

- Wikispaces

- bloggers (in more detail)

- flicker

- protopage

Protopage has been my favourite so far, it has definite potential to be a learning tool for our TAA students. It has functions such as calendars, bookmarks, section to put podcasting and somewhere that we could post updates for events happening in the training sector. We would like to start trialling it with our current students. Below is the link to the practice page that we did in the workshop:



http://www.protopage.com/danielleprior



Tomorrow we will be exploring pod casting in detail, i can't wait!!!!

Designing e-learning Professional Development Workshop

On the 23rd and 24th July Danielle, Chelsea and I attended a workshop on e-learning at the Australian Technical College. The workshop was facilitated by Clint Smith from TAFE Victoria.

Our main points of focus for the two days were Digital Photo Stories, navigation of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s ‘Designing e-learning’ website and participation in an Elluminate ‘virtual classroom’ session.

We created our own photostory using images found on Google and our own voices recorded over the top. We used background music to enhance the vibe of the presentation.