Tech Talk Tuesdays: Infographics for Learning
When: Tuesday 29th May, 8-9pm, Melbourne, Australia time (gmt+10)
About this session: Infographics are the ‘flavour of the month’ with two sessions in one week for the Australia Series. In this session, Mark Richardson will lead us through a discussion on infographics. Some of the following may be included:
- the role of infographics in and its place in learning,
- the ability to visualize concepts and
- some tools for creating infographics.
About Mark: Mark Richardson has taught in primary schools for many years. He also has extensive experience planning and delivering professional learning to teachers in ICT / eLearning.
His current interests are
- Learning Spaces and Places
- Digital Pedagogies,
- Online Teaching and Learning
- Collaboration
- Digital Citizenship
Here is the link to join this session. Please join us and share in the conversations.
#ozseries eT@lking: Eportfolios in Focus Final
The final in our May Eportfolios in Focus Webinars is scheduled for Wednesday, 30 May at 8.00 pm AEST in our Blackboard Collaborate room at:
Annette Winch will take us on a journey into collecting and storing the evidence for E-assessment.
Does this sound like some detective work afoot!
Join us and follow the Case Study evidence!
Does this scenario resonate for you?
Let’s find out a little more about the following mysteries in this journey!
- What is PDP?
- Who can become an Advanced VET teacher?
- What is the cycle of continuous improvement?
- Can I use an iPad for that?
We delve deep into the tropical jungles of the Gold Coast Institute of TAFE and explore with Annette how learners are using eportfolios and iPads innovatively.
Community Connect infographics
Join Simon Pankhurst on Thursday 24th May at 8pm..
This week on Community Connect we are going to look at infographics and explore how to make them from the simple templates to the tools that can help you make your own from scratch.
infographics are graphic visual representations of information.
Join Simon Pankhurst 8pm AEST on Community Connect to join in the fun.
When: Tuesday May 22nd, 4-5pm, Melbourne, Australia time (gmt+10)
About the session: Jenny Ashby will be leading a discussion about the use of iPad apps for effective learning. She will share some of her favourite apps and discuss ways in which we can learn more about their use in the classroom. Come along with your questions and share your resources and ideas.
About our presenter: Jenny is a pioneering and leading expert in all things mac, ipad and ipod. She has presented overseas on numerous occasions and her advice is in high demand! Jenny is an ICT specialist, teacher coach, forever learning, forever teaching, early years literacy teacher and currently teaches in Bendigo, Australia.
Here is the link to the recording
eT@lking: E-portfolios in Focus
Implementing Pathways
May 23 “Implementing pathways” – strategies for providing pathways to further study with e-portfolios with Ian Whitehouse and Allison Miller
This week we are exploring examples of how students in adult learning environments are using e-portfolios to provide a clear pathway to further studies.
Wednesday 23 May at 8.00 pm AEST
http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz
Allison Miller: Capturing now for the future
People go through life continuously gaining new skills and knowledge, often through their lifewide and workplace experiences, but they are rarely supported to gather evidence of these experiences. Allison will showcase how Project Leaders from the National VET E-learning Strategy’s Higher Qualification Pathways Project have been supported to share and manage their action-based learning using the ‘Groups’ function in an eportfolio system.
Ian Whitehouse: Aged Care Leaders project
Ian Whitehouse is the principal Director at GlobalNet ICT whose Consulting Division has developed and contributed to a number of new and emerging technology developments by pushing the boundaries through innovation. Ian is currently involved in the Higher Qualifications Pathways Projects, funded by NVELS. As co-manager of the The Aged Care Leaders project, a partnership between GlobalNet ICT and Aged Care Services Tasmania, Ian is exploring the use of Moodle to facilitate an e-portfolios pathway to further studies in Aged Care. The Aged Care Management Moodle course is being used to assist individuals to begin the capture of their skills and knowledge, work experience and education outcomes. Individuals participating in the pilot will become the ‘Industry e-learning Champions’ a key factor in ensuring the ongoing development and uptake of this projects outcomes.
Come and join us for E-portfolios in Focus webinar number four in the May series on Wednesday 23 May.
Note: details of the fifth and final webinar on May 30 – with Annette Winch – RPL for Dip students using Eportfolios, coming soon.
Community Connect “Content Creation and Curation”
Join Community Connect on Thursday 17th May as we introduce you to Simon Pankhurst as he demonstrates
“Content Creation and Curation Week 1 – Making Tutorials A great way to start making content either for sharing on the web or in education is to create a tutorial. This week Simon Pankhurst will be showing three different ways that you can create tutorials using Tildee, Screencast-o-matic and Wink. Each of these tools have their own pros and cons depending on what you want to create a tutorial for and how you want your audience to access it. Come and be inspired to create and share.”
et@lking: Eportfolios in Focus
Initiatives in using e-portfolio tools to showcase your lifelong learning
How can you effectively implement an E-portfolio approach for new teachers? What steps can you take to ensure that the teachers and learners share the journey? What decisions need to be made about E-portfolio systems? and Why? What are your preferences for presenting your achievements online? What questions do you need to ask about your e-portfolio? and Why?
Come and explore with us on Wednesday at 8 pm AEST for another webinar in the Eportfolios in Focus!
Image: E-portfolios for students and teachers – #ELTChat summary 26/10/2011
May 16 “Presenting your achievements” – initiatives in using e-portfolio tools to showcase your lifelong learning
Our guest presenter, Judith Cross, will unpack her recent paper and findings on a Teacher Preparation model that uses a blended approach of Mahara and Adobe. Judith will explain how overseas trained teachers (OTTs) were introduced to an adaptable process for creating, developing, and honing their own reflective professional ePortfolios in English.
From the Reflective ePractitioner: A Pilot Model of
Teacher Preparation Employing ePortfolio
Judith Cross
Randwick TAFE NSW Sydney Institute
This session will welcome your input and interaction about how you present your E-Portfolio to your selected audiences!
- Venue: http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz
- Time: 8.00 pm AEST
- Duration: 1 hour
Tech Talk Tuesdays: Creating apps for mobiles
When: Tuesday May 14th 4-5pm (Melbourne Australia gmt+10)
About the Session: The Teacher Learning Network currently have 4 apps available for download in the iOS app store and one in the Android Marketplace. As program co-ordinator Max Grarock was involved in the design of all these applications and actually built 3. Max will talk the through the process the TLN went through in designing, coding, placing in stores and marketing their suite of mobile applications.
About our presenter: Max Grarock is the Program Co-ordinator at the Teacher Learning Network. This sees him involved in the production and development of the organisations websites, mobile applications, face to face and online PD, funded projects and editing of the TLN journal. Before commencing at the TLN he was a kindergarten teacher and director for 6 years. Max recently completed his Masters in Education (education leadership and administration) though Deakin University.
Here is the link to the recording. Please join us and share in the conversations.
Join Community Connect 10th May at 8pm
Using ICT to tell stories – continued
Do your students tell stories or illustrate stories and you wonder how you could capture them using ICT and retain a permanent recording that can be shared with peers/parents/community?
Join Mutuota Kigotho and Helen Doyle this Thursday as they explore the wonderful world of story telling. See real examples from classrooms that illustrate this magical new world. We will look at Google Lit Trips, Wix and Glogster. Very powerful programs that are free to use and you and your students will just love them.
We will also make a community Glogster for everyone to contribute to, just to show you how effective it is and how easy it is. Please check the Australia Series Facebook page for more details.
Imagine how powerful that these examples could be if they are linked into your eportfolio either ready for your interviews or to show prospective employers. You could get some ideas for using in your assessment tasks or on prac.
If you have never seen these in action, you don’t want to miss this webinar.
eT@lking: E-portfolios in Focus!
May 9 “Preparing your e-portfolio” – innovative ways to planning and building your ‘memory box’
Okay so you have a collection of artefacts (achievement certificates, evidence of learning, images of completed art work, stories in movie format, presentations in PowerPoint format, PDFs and Word documents.
- How do you now plan to bring them together in meaningful ways for your ‘memory box’?
- What tools could you use to store and showcase your portfolios or lifelong achievements?
- Do you want to ‘get rid of all that paper’?
- Do you want to develop an e-portfolio with free online tools?
Come an join us as we demonstrate simple online tools to ‘aggregate and showcase’ your e-portfolios in the ‘cloud’.
Debbie Whitehead will demonstrate how she is using template driven Googlesites for building e-portfolios as Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in Certificate and Diploma courses at Coonara Community House, Victoria.
Coach Carole will follow instructions from Dr Helen Barrett’s ‘Using Blogger pages to create an e-Portfolio‘ to build a new e-portfolio for the achievements and reflections of the Australia e-Series team.
Wednesday 9 May at 8 pm AEST in our webinar room at: http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz
