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.

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. :)