When: Tuesday, May 8th 4-5pm (Melbourne time, Australia gmt+10)
About the session: We’ve all heard the statistics, and rightly or wrongly Facebook and other sites are playing a major part in the day to day lives of our students. For most schools concerns about safety mean that Facebook and the like is just too great a risk. Enter Edmodo, a social networking developed by teachers with education in mind. Simple to use, because access is controlled by group codes generated by the teacher, it is very safe. In this “Hands-on” session with John Pearce, participants will engage in a virtual exploration of Edmodo getting a feel for the ever expanding features provided within Edmodo.
About our presenter: John Pearce is an educational consultant based in Portarlington, Victoria, Australia. He previously taught in a number of primary schools and has won several awards for his work in the classroom. He has also presented at a number of conferences:- statewide and nationally and internationally.
Here is the link to the recording
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This weeks Community Connect Webinar, Thursday 8pm AEST.
Using ICT to tell stories
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 and Helen 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 some software as well as apps and take a tour of a couple. 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.
We will also take a look at Google Lit trips – webquests for books. If you have never seen these in action, you don’t want to miss this webinar.
eT@lking: E-portfolios in Focus!
http://nancy-rubin.com/2011/12/25/benefits-of-using-eportfolios-for-authentic-assessment/
May 2 ”Collecting for your Memory Box”
– clever ways to start collecting for your e-portfolio
- What do you use to ‘collect’ your evidence of achievements? Is it a box on your shelf? Is it a filing cabinet drawer in your office? Do you frame them and put them on a wall? Or do you use an electronic collection of files in your folders on your computer?
Let’s talk about some clever ways to collect your evidence of learning as you prepare for presenting these in an e-portfolio.
Join us on Wednesday May 2nd at 8 pm AEST here: http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz
Bring along your ideas and strategies for helping others collect their evidence for:
- * school achievements
- * tertiary and further education achievements
- * project artefacts and team achievements
- * business and lifelong learning achievements
This is 1 of 4 webinars for Eportfolios in Focus! Coming up next:
- May 9 “Preparing your e-portfolio” – innovative ways to planning and building your ‘memory box’
- May 16 “Presenting your achievements” – initiatives in using e-portfolio tools to showcase your lifelong learning
- May 23 “Implementing pathways” – strategies for providing pathways to further study with e-portfolios
Join Us for this weeks Community Connect Webinar Thursday 26th at 8pm
Managing images in an online environment.
Being able to manage your images whilst working online is crucial to the space that you have available. Most websites, wikis, blogs and Foliospaces have a limited amount of space available to you to use in their free versions. Therefore you must know how to manipulate your images so that you still get the desired effect but don’t use all your available space.
Helen & Mutuota will guide you through the tools that will assist you to have the best of both worlds – dynamic and free interactive sites
What’s new in Mahara 1.5?
What’s new in Mahara 1.5: A selection
Mahara 1.5 comes packed with over 80 new features and many bug fixes. In this presentation, we will look at a few of these in the areas of design, page content, user access, usability, groups, administration, security, and authentication.
If you are an e-portfolio enthusiast (and a Mahara practitioner ) this event will engage you in the Mahara world of e-portfolios. The event is the forerunner to a series of E-portfolios in Focus webinars coming up in May. Come back for details on those soon.
Come and join us on Wednesday, 25 April at 8 pm AEST. Yes, that’s right on ANZAC day, what better way to celebrate than with another fine collaboration between Australia and New Zealand. Bring your own Anzac Biscuits!
Where: http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz
Kristina Hoeppner is currently living in New Zealand, and working with the Mahara development team at Catalyst IT, the largest independent open source technology specialist in Australasia. Kristina can often be found online answering questions in the Mahara community forums and supporting users. Recently, Kristina was responsible for overhauling and significantly expanding the Mahara user manual at http://manual.mahara.org
Kristina is the project manager in the Catalyst IT E-Learning Team and facilitator for Mahara and Moodle workshops.
Specialties
e-learning, blended learning, learning, personal learning network, personal learning environment, e-portfolio, digital media, educational technology, research
Mahara 1.5 Online Documentation
When: Tuesday, April 24th at 4 pm, Melbourne, Australia time (gmt +11)
About the session: Last week, we looked at Videoconferencing beyond classroom walls using skype. Our participants included Australian educators, a teacher from Russia, Indonesia and Nepal. Govinda from Nepal and Endang from Indonesia spoke about themselves and their classes need to connect beyond their third world countries.
This week we continue with more conversations around the following uses of skype and videoconferencing in the classroom:-
- Why use videoconferencing?
- Examples of classroom use
- Tips on successful videoconferencing
- Stepping through the more powerful features of skype
- Alternatives to skype
- Useful skype add-ons
- and more!
Here is the link to the recording
An Interview with the Moodleman!
Here’s an opportunity to ask those nitty gritty questions about Moodle tools, strategies and tactics. If you are already exploring Moodle as a teacher for your blended delivery and you want to know which tools, plugins and resources are best, come along and ask Julian Ridden, the Moodleman.
Julian will also showcase some really neat Mahoodle tips and tricks! (Mahara and Moodle)
Where: http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz – the Australia e-Series Blackboard Collaborate virtual classroom
When: Monday April 23 at 4.00 pm AEST
Why: Because this will be recorded as a Pre-Conference online workshop and we need your presence.
Note: an MP4 version of the recorded session will be made for distribution to the delegates who attend the Learn Local Showcase on June 22
Join Mutuota Kigotho and Helen D0yle from UNE as they take the reigns this April 19 th Thursday night at 8pm on Community Connect.
Social Media – Using Twitter as a tool in the teaching of literature in English.
The growth of technology has led to an explosion in the use of social media by people across all age groups. People already trained as teachers might be asking the question” “Where do we fit in the picture?” Data indicates that Twitter is one of the most common social media tools used by the 25 – 54 age group. There are compelling reasons for one to feel motivated to learn how this tool can be used for educational purposes. This presentation looks at the history of Twitter and illustrates how it is used in classrooms around the world particularly with secondary schools.
This is a presentation for everyone in education.
OneNote 2010
Join us tonight in the Australia e-Series Blackboard Collaborate room for a special insight into the fabulous Microsoft OneNote tool.
Perhaps you didn’t even know that you had it already in your Microsoft Office Suite!
Maybe you want to know how to use it for improved productivity and workflow!
Let’s see what Darren Christie from The Continuing Education Centre in Wangaratta has to say tonight. He will be joined by Pat Grosse, ementor for the Loddon Mallee region. Both presenters are involved in the ACFE ementor program 2012.
We start at 8 pm AEST – all welcome!
Time: April 18, 2012 from 8pm to 9pm
Location: Online in Blackboard Collaborate
Website or Map: http://tinyurl.com/29tyznz
