M-learning Guru Marcus Ragus paid us a visit in here at the Chamber on the 5 July!
Armed with all his gadgets and new flash technology, he showed a varity of ways these tools could be used in a training environment:

- it could record attendance
- could help with admin processes, such as recording when an assessment was received, who it was written by and which assessment task it is.

The options are endless!!!

We looked at PDA's, GPS's, and RFID tags, Marcus has sound knowledge in this area and will prove to bea vaulable resource for our project.

On Tursday 5th July we were lucky enough to have m-learning guru Marcus Ragus show us various m-learning resources and some of the technology we may be able to trial for our Learnscope Project. Marcus showed us a GPS program on his PDA and we were able to locate the position of satellites above the Chamber here in Darwin.

Other areas of interest that we were able to discuss with Marcus included the use of RFID tags (smart tags), ultra mobile PCs and barcoding. We are currently writing a report for our managers on the feasability of using these m-learning resources in our RTO environment.

M Learning

I attended a coarse yesterday that was about mobile learning. Danielle, Rea, Collette and myself attended this workshop.

Being my first coarse since becoming part of the team in the Chamber, I didn't have a clue what the guy was talking about! However, I lost interest in the discussion when he began talking about PowerPoint Presentations and Photoshop.

The afternoon session with Marcus was much more interesting though because I had more idea about what we were talking about.

I enjoyed the coarse overall. :)

e Portfolios

I recently began my research into the area of eportfolios to find some info as to what an eportfolio actually was. I've found a number of different definitions and discovered various ways of using eportfolios.

After presenting my research to my team we decided we would create our own eportfolio. Our eportfolio will be created as a sample compilation of evidence of electronic activities to show what we have learned about Learnscope. As the example eportfolio is currently under construction I will report back with a link ASAP.

For more info on eportfolios check out the following website:

www.danwilton.com/eportfolio

Next Steps

We had a meeting last Friday 18 May, to discuss the progress of our project. Each member was given a resposibility to have completed before the meeting. Now that we have the initial data collected we can plan the next steps .......

Collette will be running an EdNA workshop for the benifit of the group to teach us how to post comments, change the back and to make the site overall appealing to our students.

Yva is collecting more information about Ared and present this to us at the next meeting.

Rea will be looking into creating an e-portfilo and then generating one for Yva's Certificate IV in Business work.

I will be looking into creating a pod cast, and if it is successful will try and relate it to our RTO.

So we will be very busy over the next few weeks with researching and playing around with all our findings. Keep an eye out becuase our blog will become very busy.

If anyone knows of any good links or has any vauable information about Ared, Edna, e-portfilo, or pod casting, feel free to let us know the more information we get the better!!!

3 M's

Morning Everyone!

Yeterday i went over and Spoke to Melanie Brenton, about bring Marcus Ragus who is a M-learning "GURU" up to Darwin. Its all very exciting!!!! He is making his way here at the beginning of July, which isn't that far away.

We are organising a one on one workhsop with Marcus, while he is here to discuss RFID tags, mobile phones and PDA's and how to program and utilise them in a learning environment.

It was good to set the wheels in motion!!! At the conclusion of my visit I didnt leave Mel's office empty handed, she loaded me up with some new and exciting m-learning websites that she has come across. My favourite so far is:
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=56

Check it out, i am sure it will confuse the hell out of many of you but it is very amusing! :)

Our M-learning knowledge is increasing everyday thanks to Mel and Marcus!!!

Edna group approved

Hey team,
Just letting you know that i have applied for an edna group and have one now to play with as of 10 May 2007 (as per one of our aims). I wanted the group so i can communicate information with my trainees, such as posting documents and comments, using forums etc. Similar to the one Collette started for her TAA group. Though I am particularly interested in using the 'chat function' as these days this is a major communication method for the x generation!

I now need to edit it to make it look appealing to my 'younger' target group and think of a suitable name. Any ideas?

I'll show you all when i've finished editing. I would really like to trial this asap so once its 'pretty' enough for me i'll need to get my trainees involved :)

Good luck to me

Thanks all

Yva :)