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2008 Session topics

Keynote: Framing your digital footprint

The keynote session will provide an overview of the paths Australian educators are travelling online, and the issues they face in their personal and professional learning journeys. Participants will be challenged to consider what impact read/write culture is having on educators, and how they are sharing creative content, commenting, reviewing, rating and learning from each other online. What is your digital learning footprint and where are you headed?

Presentations
Alison Miller, 5 April 2008, SA: Keynote presentation
Megan Poore, 11 April 2008, ACT: Keynote presentation
Margaret Lloyd, 1 & 2 May 2008, QLD: Keynote presentation
                      Whose paying attention... and to what?

edna and me

An overview of edna services, navigation and networks to provide a context for concurrent sessions.

Hands on me.edu.au

A short introduction to the concept of personal online social networking spaces using me.edu.au as an example. By the end of this hands-on session participants will have an understanding of me.edu.au, its functionality and its potential use for them as an educator.

Getting started in e-learning: baby steps

What is e-learning? How can it benefit my learners? How can I manage assessment, moderation and facilitation online? Launching into the use of technology to support your teaching and learning practice can be daunting. This session will discuss how to get started using manageable steps. It will explore introducing elements of technology, the differences between working online and presenting face-to-face, simple tricks and traps to support your online practice and where to find resources and support.

Follow that theme

In this hands-on session you will take a teaching or professional development topic and explore and subscribe to themes of interest. Learn new ways of collecting and connecting by tagging, describing and aggregating the results of your exploration for easy reference. Discuss how your students find and organise information, and experiment with tools to improve their information management and collaboration skills.

Embedding multimedia

Whether you deliver teaching and training face-to-face, online or in blended mode, bringing concepts to life with images, audio and video allows for a richer learning experience for students. In this hands-on session, participants will consider their target audience and how best to use multimedia resources. Find and identify freely available images and how to optimise them for use on the internet. Find and identify available video files and learn how to embed these files into an online environments such as edna Groups or a blog. Brainstorm workarounds for access issues to multimedia resources.

Digital literacies

This presentation considers the literacies, learnings and links required to ensure Australian students and teachers are well equipped to navigate the digital landscape. Participants will discover ways edna can link them to resources and communities that discuss the significance of information literacy, critical literacy, visual literacy, media literacy and games literacy, plus strategies for teaching about collaborative content, advanced search, information ethics, filtering and online safety.

edna Groups for newbies

edna Groups is an online environment for promoting communication and collaboration between members of the Australian education and training community. In this session participants will experience and play with some of the popular online tools found in edna Groups. Participants will learn how to chat online to other edna Group members, complete a choice activity, add discussions and replies to a forum, create a glossary entry and edit a wiki.

Learning without borders

This session challenges participants to embrace the communications aspect of ICT, move beyond the walls of their institution or system and immediate community, and engage in the global education community. Participants will take a hands-on tour through issues facing our world and ways ICT is being used to enhance learning in areas such as languages, values, communication and social justice. Opportunity will be given for participants to focus on an area of interest such as the global education website, online projects, virtual worlds, global wiki projects or initiatives such as the One Laptop per Child programme.

New tools in edna Groups

This session is for those interested in what tools Moodle-based edna Groups or edna Sandpit Groups offer beyond forums and file upload. A number of plugins and external tools can be used to enhance the collaborative nature of your group. Which tools are good to use as icebreakers? How can you use course management tools such as assignment and feedback to enhance collaboration? How can you use a group blog to share? Among other tools to be covered: Glossary, Choice, JPG slideshow, and embedding video and frappr maps.

edna tools for your site

Build dynamic content into your website using the edna toolkit and the magic of RSS. This session is useful for participants at a beginning to intermediate level wishing to be introduced to RSS technology and ways to add dynamic content to websites, intranets or learning management systems using edna tools and content. Participants are encouraged to bring along a thumb drive and save their work for future reference.

Social networking with me.edu.au - Online Session

A visual tour of the features of the me.edu.au web site including how to get started initially and explanations of some of the terminology connected with the site.  The online session included discussions of the benefits of networking in general and of privacy issues and concerns.
Wimba Live Classroom Archives

Replays of the live classroom sessions including visuals, audio and text chat.

NOTE: You must disable pop-ups and install the Wimba Live Classroom Client to your computer before being able to view these archives.

The links will take you to the Wimba sign on page leading to the archive.  If you have installed Live Classroom, simply enter a user name (any, it doesn't matter).

Firewall and proxy settings at your institution may affect your ability to install the Wimba client and/or to view the presentations.

Please refer to the help documentation available on the online workshops page.

 

18 June 2008 Live Classroom Session

24 June 2008 Live Classroom Session

 

Finding multimedia resources - Online Session

A look at existing copyright regulations, potential misinterpretations of them and the advantages of Creative Commons licensing.  Included in the session were opportunities for discussions and questions

NOTE: You must disable pop-ups and install the Wimba Live Classroom Client to your computer before being able to view these archives.

The links will take you to the Wimba sign on page leading to the archive.  If you have installed Live Classroom, simply enter a user name (any, it doesn't matter).

Firewall and proxy settings at your institution may affect your ability to install the Wimba client and/or to view the presentations.

Please refer to the help documentation available on the online workshops page. 

18 June 2008 Session

24 June 2008 Session

Digital literacies - Online Session

This presentation considers the literacies, learnings and links required to ensure Australian students and teachers are well equipped to navigate the digital landscape

Discussion was a big part of this session.

Topics included: the significance of information literacy, critical literacy, visual literacy, media literacy and games literacy, plus strategies for teaching about collaborative content, advanced search, information ethics, filtering and online safety.

NOTE: You must disable pop-ups and install the Wimba Live Classroom Client to your computer before being able to view these archives.

The links will take you to the Wimba sign on page leading to the archive.  If you have installed Live Classroom, simply enter a user name (any, it doesn't matter).

Firewall and proxy settings at your institution may affect your ability to install the Wimba client and/or to view the presentations.

Please refer to the help documentation available on the online workshops page.

 

18 June 2008 session

24 June 2008 session

 

Learning without borders - Online Session

This session challenged participants to embrace the communications aspect of ICT, move beyond the walls of their institution or system and immediate community, and engage in the global education community.

Participants were  led on a tour through issues facing our world and ways ICT is being used to enhance learning in areas such as languages, values, communication and social justice.

Resources were suggested as follow-up materials for participants to focus on an area of interest such as the global education website, online projects, virtual worlds, global wiki projects or initiatives such as the One Laptop per Child programme.

NOTE: You must disable pop-ups and install the Wimba Live Classroom Client to your computer before being able to view these archives.

The links will take you to the Wimba sign on page leading to the archive.  If you have installed Live Classroom, simply enter a user name (any, it doesn't matter).

Firewall and proxy settings at your institution may affect your ability to install the Wimba client and/or to view the presentations.

Please refer to the help documentation available on the online workshops page.

 

18 June 2008 session

24 June 2008 session

 

Education in other worlds - Online session

Held in the virtual world of Second Life, participants received a tour of projects  that spanned the Schools, Higher Ed and VET sectors. Future Second Life sessions and events are planned.

TeacherTube video  A one-minute look at Second Life from the drum circle on the islands of jokaydia.

qik video  A 17-minute streaming video of a presentation by Dean Groom discussing how Second Life can be used with secondary school students.