If you’re winding down this Friday, then set aside 11 minutes and 23 seconds to watch this video by Sue Waters of James Farmer talking about identity, ownership and online learning, as part of Leigh Blackall’s 10 minute lecture series.

I think this is going to become one of our core resources for our flexbile learning sessions with teachers! Thanks to you all!

Happy Friday!

Flyer Alan Levine ACT event flyer (PDF)

Author of CogDogBlog, Alan levine is hitting the ACT as part of this national speaking tour in October. You might recall Nancy White toured last October, with great success!

Alan’s keeping an “Aussie” blog for his tour, CogDogRoo.

Two topics Alan will discuss:

(i) “Being there” – being actively present in your online courses and approaching educational technologies with a sense of ‘wonder’, and

(ii) Trying out those Web 2.0 gems – just something small to get you started – Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, whatever!

More info via the AFLF website. Registration is a MUST!

We’ll see you there ;o)

[image: AFLF]

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Search: Toolbox tutes

The Framework (AFLF) have just released a series of mini tuorials to assist users in downloading and customising Toolbox learning objects.

There are tutes that show you ways of:

• Making simple text edits to learning objects
• Creating and adding audio files to learning objects
• Linking to Blogs and Wikis in learning objects
  
• Uploading and using videos in learning objects

…just to name a few.

The tutorials were made with open source tools like Wink, Audacity and Reload. Just shows what you can do with FOSS!

Check them out for yourself, or download them and use with your teachers and colleagues.

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When: 12.30pm – 2.30pm Friday May 11
Where: D120 Reid
Who: 5 teachers (from Faculty of B.I.T and T.H.M)
What: Recording and Editing audio and adding it to WebCT courses.

This was a fairly straightforward workshop. Once teachers had their headsets properly connected to the computers, we worked through the process of using Audacity to record and edit sound.

We went on to explore what needed to be done with Audacity to have it export the finished files as MP3s and then looked at different options for adding audio files to WebCT.

Teachers were largely happy to follow the how-to handouts at their own pace, asking for help when it was needed.

At the end of the workshop all participants were happy to have refreshed their previous PD training in this area and to have found solutions to some problems they had been having with audio.