e-Show n Tell 2007

3:30pm – 4:30pm AEST
with Sandra Robinson and Stephen McVey

“If you are seeing this message you may be experiencing network problems. Please wait a few minutes and refresh the page.”

In general the term network refers to any interconnected group or system. It is being accepted in learning organisations as a valid means of delivering learning experiences in this connected age. This presentation will explore the strategies of delivering learning through networks in this connected era.

3:30pm – 4:30pm
with Arabella Hay and Deslie-Ann Osborn

This presentation is about how NCI are engaging, empowering and enthusing our teachers and managers to encourage new and innovative practices. The presentation will include an overview of the entire strategy and examine the ELearning Kit that has been created.

If you’ve just attended Coming Up: How did a couple of veteran classroom teachers end up in a space like this? with Barbara Ganley and Barbara Sawhill, then you might be interested in joining them for a continuing discussion via a Skypecast.

From their blog:

“When the Elluminate session is over, and after a short beverage break, please join us for a follow up conversation on Skype. We will be joined by graduate students from the University of Connecticut’s Department of Modern & Classical Languages. The blog for their course is here. We will be talking about integrating social software into the teaching of languages and cultures and all that good stuff from 9:45-10:30 EST. (click here to check the time in your area)”

E-Learning for Industry – ASSDA – SkillsTech Australia.

Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007. Presented by Maurits Gustavsson, Business Manager (Education Development Research Modelling)

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Domain Aged Care Presentation

Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007.

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RTOs benefit from partnering with business.

Presented by Partners Consulting & The Good Guys. Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007.

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e-learning for industry

Presented by Oenone Serle, Sarah Vandepeer & Peter Hancock, Workplace Learning Initiatives. Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007.

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2:00pm – 3:00pm AEST
with Howard Errey and Allison Miller

The Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s Inclusive e-learning Project aims to increase the uptake of e-learning as an effective and efficient delivery strategy for increasing vocational education and training (VET) participation by under-represented and priority learner groups including youth at risk, learners with a disability and mature age workers.

During this session the 2007 Inclusive e-learning Project Leaders will share their successes, challenges and experiences.

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Immersive e-learning: a model for delivering and assessing risk-based competencies

with Delia Bradshaw, Julie van der Klift and Brad Beach

Is it sometimes too ‘risky’ learning about risk in the workplace? Have you thought about using virtual technologies as an alternative? This session provides an overview of VERBL – virtual experience of risk-based learning – a framework for the implementation and embedding of immersive technologies for risk-based learning. VERBL was developed following a series of trials within the community services area using Second Life as a learning platform.

Extending the QTI mPlayer

with Peter Higgs and Sam Meredith

“In 2005 New Practices funded the development of the QTI Player for use in the then emerging mobile learning environment. This was a great leap forward for learning and assessment in the workplace. Since then the demand for on the job training and assessment has increased ten fold. With this teachers and assessors have been burdened with the need for both double handling of learning content including assessment tools and data when in the field. This project intends to extend the development and use of the QTI Player, that functions on hand held devices, to enable practitioners in the field to access content, assess students in their workplace, provide feedback and then upload the data in a secure way to the learning enterprises systems and eventually their Student Management System. The first project only covered the development of the QTI Player and did not cover in its scope the use of remote access and uploading of data to an organisational system.”

This presentation will advise attendees the re- development phase with the QTImPlayer in 2007, including an update on the advantages of using QTI in mobile learning and assessment. The project has made some ground breaking achievements to be poised to revolutionise “on the job” assessments that advantage enterprises and training organisations alike. Some of the achievements to date include:

• Creating and validating assessment tools to meet the new AQTF requirements.
• Converting the validated assessment tools to QTI packages.
• Re-developing the QTImPlayer of 2005 to meet the changes that have occurred in the IMS QTI standards.
• Trials with the QTImPlayer and the wireless technology enabling field activities in “on the job” assessment.

12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST
with Barbara Ganley and Barbara Sawhill

Barbara Ganley, lecturer in Writing and English at Middlebury College, Vermont and Barbara Sawhill, Director of the Cooper International Learning Center at Oberlin College, Ohio, are teachingpractitioners at the peak of their craft, using new media and social software tools to build their learners’ digital and language literacies.

This discussion explores the pedagogical basis of the six-year (so far!), transformation of their teaching practice and provides plenty of evidence demonstrating the learning innovation they foster.

This ‘live conversation’ is part of Edition 15 of The Knowledge Tree an e-journal of learning and innovation. Edition 15 illustrates how educators, businesses and learners have transformed the learning exchange, using social or ‘participatory’ media (Rheingold 2007).

Visit The Knowledge Tree website at: http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/

12:30pm – 1:30pm
with Chris Richter and Jennifer Dunbabin

Learn how to use VET Virtual for your online meeting and teaching pleasure. This application is the child of KISS and WYSIWYG – simple to use with lots of useful features. Chris Richter, the room’s designer, will take you on a tour to get your planet rescue efforts up and running.

Vet Virtual Summary

Vet Virtual is a collaborative space, set up to trial the use of high capacity connectivity for real time teaching and meeting spaces for the VET sector as part of the Access to Bandwidth Project, which is part of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Vet Virtual allows teachers and students to meet in 3 different rooms. A Meeting room which allows up to 12 users with audio, video, whiteboard and files. A Training room for teacher student learning and an Auditorium for large groups with up to 2 presenters. All rooms allow a shared whiteboard, audio, video, personal and group files.

Vet Virtual Requirements

Flash player 8, Web Browser (IE6+), Headset Microphone, Web Cam(Optional), Broadband (Dialup does work)
OPTIONAL but recommended – AARNET connection to decrease latency and allow a more pleasurable experience.

Attending this session:

To access this session go to: http://vetvirtual.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=31

• Click on the MEETING PARTICIPANT ROOM button
• Enter YOUR NAME
• Access the E-LEARNING EXPERIENCE ROOM from the list.

For technical assistance please contact:

• Jen Dunbabin: 03 6233 8487
• Geoff Logan: 03 6233 6169
• Chris Richter: 02 6721 1572

Jonathon Finkelstein shared some great tips and strategies for engaging learners using Elluminate during the keynote this morning. Lots of fun had by all! Participants engaged in a range of engaging activities including:

Choosing Our Own Adventure:

Collaborative Poetry Writing and Reading

This included a great reading from Carole McCulloch reads as the Jabberwocky: Tremendous dibblefink raspberry pool! Beautiful, Sleepy Scruffle.

A Team Activity

Which allowed us all to come up with some very interesting sentences about the Bobolink!

• Lynn Huguenin: We found a boblink and it didn’t work!
• Marlene Manto: Last night I worked out how to BOBOLINK my Facebook to my Twitter account.
• Cathy Baxter: I’m often going to bobolinks on the web!
• Howard Errey: We will have to bobolink this to your blog, Jo!
• Joel Woods: A bobolink is a large extinct bird with very large eyes
• Jo Hart: The bobolinks are nesting early this year
• Michael Coghlan: The timetable for Bobolink will be available later this week.

This was a fantastic session.. which included lots of participation and interaction. The hour flew by. Jonathon even shared some crazy Elluminate camera techniques. Nice hat there!!

Definitely worth following up the recording of this one on the Conference website! Coming soon!

with Jonathon Finkelstein
11:00am – 12:00pm

Join Jonathan Finkelstein, founder of LearningTimes, author of Learning in Real Time, and host of the Real Time Minute for an exploration of unique, real-time online group activities for the live virtual classroom. We’ll look at innovative learning activities and facilitation approaches that harness a group’s collective energy to achieve a learning objective in a social, meaningful way.

Whether you are currently working in the synchronous realm of learning or not, this keynote promises to open eyes and take online learning to the next level of engagement.