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 * GippsTAFE Online Facilitation Course ** **Resources Work Task ** Welcome to the wiki for the GippsTAFE Online Facilitation Course Work Task. The purpose of this wiki is for us to build up a list of suitable online learning materials. Please select your favourite two or three online resources and add them to the wiki. For each include a title, the URL and a one line description of what the web site is about. If you put your name at the end we'll know who has posted which items. :) **Not sure how to use a wiki? ** First Join Wikispaces (you'll be sent an email confirming this), then sign in, (or just sign in if you are already a member). Then click on the "**Edit This Page **" button, add your information and then click the "**Save **" button. **More about wikis ** This link takes you to a great, short video on wikis and how they work. :)

This is a link to Southern Alabama site - with explanation of terms and some activity suggestions.
I have found a good resource at education.qld.gov.au /learningplace/onlinelearning It is aimed at school aged students but has some great tips for developing an online classroom environment.

[] - This is a Curtin University website which has information on online learning, blended learning and great tips on building, designing and facilitating you own course.

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[]- This website has information on training and materials development, it has a collection of resources for trainers which focus on Internet and training for community organizations.======


 * Communities of Practice**

And at Sue's request :-) some great Community of Practice references: [] an @http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/

**Synchronous Facilitation**
The wiki at http://synchfacilitation.wikispaces.com/ was put together by myself and Frankie Forsyth. You may find some useful ideas there, and links to further resources on synchronous facilitation in virtual classroom tools. (Michael)


 * ICEBREAKERS**

A bit of background about why, when and how to use:

 * ====== **[|About icebreakers] ** ======
 * [|Some free examples]

So much good stuff here, going to need the three weks after the course just to look at all!

E and Digital Assessment
I'd like to draw your attention to new resources on e- and digital assessment: 1) A report on eassessment in the Australian VET sector commissioned by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework at http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/files/Eassessment_AQTF_final.pdf An eye-opening document that reveals a general lack of understanding of effective assessment in the VET sector. 2) A report from the UK from JISC. I haven'r read it but all JISC materials are good. See @http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/digiassass_eada.pdf

- Michael

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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source.======


 * Businessballs - an Aladdin's cave of useful resources for course development. [|www.businessballs.com]

This is a great site - outlines some of the Instructional Strategies the are used in the II Masterclass and in Cooperative Learning Resources that I have purchased.
Other networking games include MyPlanNet - an Internet Service Provider game http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/sp/myplannet/index.html?POSITION=vanity%2B&COUNTRY_SITE=us&CAMPAIGN=mPN&CREATIVE=onsite&REFERRING_SITE=Vanity%2BURL I have access to other games but you need logins to access them :-( The coolest is called Aspire - think **Computer Networking + Basic Business and Entrepreneurial Skills meets Sim City** - it's still in beta and has been designed to develop specific business and networking skills from the ground up, and is supported by online case studies.


 * CONTENT**

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In the Printing and Graphic Arts Industry the technology changes rapidly. The most sought after employees are those who can support their own learning. There are many sites containing relevant resources but one of the most valuable sites for students I have found is Digital Media Net's website. There students may access a variety of free tools and plugins, free tutorials, the latest news on technology and the creative industries, a variety of free e-journals, an established international forum where people share and solve each other's problems and more - [|DMN Forums] ======

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In design/prepress projects, there is frequently a need for quality images that are not specific to an organisation, ie NOT photos of their staff, equipment or product. Copyright on such images is potentially problematic. iStockPhoto provides a rights managed service where you pay a relatively small licensing cost to license the use of the image, film clip, sound, or graphic for a specific purpose. [|Stock photography] This site has the ability to search for specific tags given to each licensable item. eg //christmas bells// or //old typewriter//. I use these images in developing learning materials saving the time it would take me to create the image or take and edit a photo that would not perhaps be as good as those general images available. Time is money! ;) Another good value resource is the Jefferson Lab. Here you can find all sorts of highly interactive content, such as the period table of elements at [] . Again, this is a well developed site, full of additional activities and printable resources. **Open Content** ======

MIT's Open courseware is one of my favourite resources.

For example, the Big Picture of Calculus at [] has got it all. Its a complete learning resource that including a series of video (in this case to do with fundamentals of calculus), summaries and practice exercises. And what is more, it was developed by some of the world best mathematical minds. Furthermore, its free, top quality and saves the effort of developing one own content.


 * TOOLS AND SOFTWARE**

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I'm quite new to teaching and even newer to online facilitation (hence why I'm doing this course) so my links probably won't be particularly enthralling for you. I also teach radio and so feel that there's probably not a lot of off-the-shelf learning resources out there, of reasonable quality, that I can use. I'm hoping to make some and am intrigued by some of the links posted already here today.======

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First of all, wordpress.com has been invaluable for me in teaching the radio course. It's a blogging website, but is flexible enough to let you change the layout, colours and 'look'. We were able to set up our student radio station website, for free. The students all have access to the website and can update pages, create new posts, link to the YouTube videos we upload and check statistics. We also have a 'secret' part of the website with a discussion board.======

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I'm starting to get into iTunesU. The range of content available is building up by the day, and has now reached a 'critical mass', I think. There's lots of stuff about history and politics which is really useful in teaching radio, as I need to make sure that my students understand politics etc. Most of the content is free and seems of good quality. The problem with alternatives such as YouTube is that you're not really sure what you're getting and you waste a lot of time wading crap in the search for learning resources.======

ps UPDATE just been looking at eXe - there's an ePD session on it on Monday. It's another free software package to create learning objects and SCORM content, a bit like Hot Potatoes.

 * An oldie but definately a goodie for me is [|www.youtube.com] . I find it very effective for students who need to view a nursing task or other gruesome bits and pieces which we cover in class.

Just as Deb mentioned, most sought after employees are those who can support their own learning.

﻿I introduce our students to the websites of key companies in our industry. e.g. Adobe® has links for each software to its own Adobe® Resource Centre, Adobe® TV, Adobe® help, support and much more []


 * MAPS!!**

Here is a simple process to follow:

 * 1) ======Go into the field and do your //science//: Archaeology, Botany, ..., Zoology. (anything really that has a spatial dimension-and in a 3-D world ... what doesn't!). Handdraw or electronically capture your fieldnotes.======
 * 2) ======Come back to your office, dusty and tired, and sit comfortably at your computer and begin to create a spatial framework for your field excursion:======
 * 3) ======Show people //where// you did your science by producing using a series of images and maps to show location and activity:======
 * 4) ======Capture a regional image that shows where your study area is with respect to some well know place. You can use Google maps of course but I prefer http://www.nearmap.com/ which is a Perth based company that captures high resolution photos around the Perth region or Wikimapia at http://wikimapia.org/#lat=-31.9333&lon=115.8333&z=10&l=0&m=b. Use these sites or any one of a number of graphics packages to identify your study area with a symbol or an insert map.======
 * 5) ======To get an insert map, zoom in and capture a closer image of the study area. This too can be annotated.======
 * 6) ======Make your field notes digital! Take your handdrawn field notes and use something like http://zwibbler.com/ for a quick sketch or http://www.inkscape.org/ for something more substantial.======
 * 7) ======Now you have a number of colourful images and maps to embed in your presentations.======

Rob Iverach

 * OTHER**

Health Information

 * [|http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au] This website is easy read with up to date health information.
 * ======SIGN guidelines - Scottish Intecollegiate Guidelines Network - My first port of call for clinical guidelines and yes, its about going back to my native country but they are generally leaders in this field. Its only clinical information specific so its not much use to anyone other than other clinicians. [|www.sign.ac.uk]======


 * I've used the How Stuff Works website ever since Marshall Brain set it up back in the '90s. It's now all commercial with ads, etc, but has lots of good explanations to get things started in class.

@http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/course_catalog/index.html
 * As I only teach computer networking these days and Central Institute of Technology is a Cisco Networking Academy I use the online resources and assessments we have access to via that program. You can see samples under each curriculum link here -

@https://www.academynetspace.com/gameportal.php
 * The networking Academy also as a number of social networking sites, once of which is Academy Netspace, which also has games -

@http://www.cisco.com/web/about/citizenship/socio-economic/globalEd.html At a minimum please view the Learning Society video and read the Learning Society and Education 3.0 White Papers and be inspired - there's hope if only we can get our institutional managements to "get it'!
 * In my journal blog I mentioned **Education 3.0** - well these are my inspirational sites for all that and more -

And also checkout -

@https://research.netacad.net/ http://www.getideas.org To get full access and to participate fully you do need to create a login which you can do easily.

Another link that I thought was interesting - @http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01gibson.html?_r=2 - A look at the role of Google in our future.

One online dictionary that is extremely useful for non-native speakers and native speakers alike is the Longman Dictionary of Contempory English - []
 * English Language Learning**

How can you increase your vocabulary and solve world hunger at the same time? Try the World Food Program's Freerice quiz - []. For each answer you get correct 10 grains of rice are donated! Beware - the more answers you get right the harder it gets!