Update: There was a slight change of focus in this conversation. Check out Steven’s revised slides. More reflections on the session itself will follow shortly. Thanks to all who attended… and apologies to those who attempted to connect via Skypecast – it seemed the server was playing up!
The future of learning in a networked world, hive mind or free mind?
Let’s talk about ecological, economic and social/political forecasts, with some educational models in response, then ground it all in real practical educational development for Travel and Tourism Sector and Education. See link to slides for references to key global economists, environmentalists and political scientist and to innovative educational models.
THED have regular conversations across the state and across the Tasman so if you’re keen to hear what other teachers are doing online and elsewhere, AND want to share your own experiences, then this is your big chance! Jump into the conversations via the THED wiki, or get in touch with FLS (if you’re at CIT) for more info.
Well, a BIG congratulations goes out to all those teachers and teaching teams who received a CIT Staff Achievement Award!
It’s a lovely way to finish up the year – and it’s been a busy one at that
I must extend a special E-congratulations to two teachers in particular, who received an eLearning Award for their online work:
Penny Neuendorf (eLearning Award) teacher in Remedial Massage, Health Sciences, who also lead our recent Online Teacher Network seminar, where Penny demonstrated some of the online work she’d been doing using video.
Yu Sasaki (eLearning Award), teacher in the Faculty of Communication and Community Services.
Not to mention our very own Leonard Low (Staff Achievement Award), FLS team member and Project Management teacher, BIT, who this year has been heavily involved in developing mobile learning strategies, including an award-winning paper presented at the 2006 OLT Conference in Brisbane QLD.
Well done to you all, for providing creative, innovative, and flexible e-learning solutions through your dedication and hard work!
We held a rather successful workshop today at CIT all about the Social Web.
The morning began with a provocative talk from our guest speaker Leigh Blackall, webcast from Dunedin in NZ, where he talked about teaching being dead (long live learning!) – well received by the 40 strong bunch of teachers who attended! Thanks Leigh, much appreciated!
We then moved into three workshops run concurrently on
All workshops were received with much enthusiasm by the participants who were keen to jump into the tools and give them a red hot go! Our central theme across all three workshops was food (being a key social activity in itself!).
Participants in the blogging workshop (images from Stephan’s moblog) We finished up with a quick few words from Vaughan Croucher, our Dean of Learning Services at CIT (thanks Vaughan!) and launched our new look PD website called Samson.
We also demonstrated the power of aggregation using a visual aggregator, Suprglu, that brought all the workshop activities together. Thanks again participants! It’s only the social web when there are people coming together to use it!
so if you’re keen to hear what other teachers are doing online and elsewhere, AND want to share your own experiences, then this is your big chance! Jump into the conversations via the THED wiki, or get in touch with FLS (if you’re at CIT) for more info.
Well, a BIG congratulations goes out to all those teachers and teaching teams who received a 
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