Hi All, Waikato Institute of Technology are holding a shar-E-fest in Hamilton on the 27 and 28 September focused on e-learning in action and I'd like to invite you to join the shar-E-fest social network. Click here to browse the network: http://sharefest.crowdvine.com/ You can create an account here: http://sharefest.crowdvine.com/account/login Thanks, John Clayton

John Aiono: Hi John, will be attending Sharefest but as yet don't have a programme or know exact location of event, hoping you can give me directions

John Clayton: go to the http://sharefest.crowdvine.com/ page for the info John

After reading New times, new literacies. (Education Queensland, 2004) I believe there are three top questions/ issues that educators need to address:1. Define which are the critical literacy skills that are essential for the 21st century learners and explore ways of how they could be integrated effectively within the current curriculum.2. Craft strategies to effectively address the diversity and disparity of literacy levels in an ever changing an... [read more]

Thank you everyone for your participation in this Crowd Vine site. The time has now come to CLOSE the activities on this site (the site is designed as a "conference site") and move to a more permanent community site. Since we are all in the education field a logical fit is the AKO Aotearoa site (Link: http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/) and we would invite you all to join this community. If you are already a member of AKO you can automatically join the co... [read more]

I Have uploaded all the presentations on the AKO site (use Tab on top of page to access). Please let me know if there are any issues. John

Bhadra Chandran: Thanks, John

The power point presentations from the symposia are avaliable from the AKO Site (http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/communities/e-learning-education-and-training).Please let me know if you have issues obtaining the files.John

The last Symposia was held in Hamilton on Thursday and was well attended. It was great to be part of the lively discussions and to hear of the exciting developments planned.

Richard and Sue had a great time on the West Coast (Including Whitebait Fritters and Monteiths :)) Thnak you Barbara for pulling this together. You did a great job

Hi there, thanks to all who put the symposium together yesterday. It was great to meet like minded people who have a passion for elearning. And thanks to Richard Elliot as I now know the difference between education and training. Onward and upward we go.

Thank you to everyone who put this great day together. I really enjoyed Sue's ideas and the effort all speakers put in making this a really worthwhile day. I have taken away a lot to think about and hope I will have the opportunity to utilise the wisdom of you all for the students of Thames.

Due to difficulties uploading more than one attachment to a discussion post I've uploaded some photos to my Flickr account - please advise if you wish me to remove your contributions from the Creative Commons domain :-) http://www.flickr.com/photos/gibbisons/tags/el3symp/

I found this site:http://centre4.interact.ac.nz/spaces/space.php?space_key=13303

Moheka Williams: here is the home page for that e-community: http://centre4.core-ed.net/spaces/space.php?space_key=472

When posting about the eLearning in tertiary education and training tag on sites such as Twitter, Flickr, Blogs etc use the tag #el3symp

Teresa Gibbison: Here is the Twitter feed for today's event http://tinyurl.com/el3symp

Jun and others interested in language learning (with or without Moodle) may be interested to read about and explore Flax Language Learning, http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax

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Barbara Duckett: Look at what we have now, see what we can add, easily PD for my tutors so they can take what they need from it all, see what we can adapt, alter, squish and generally manipulate to deliver within our boundaries.

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Teresa Gibbison: Gaining feedback from students by using questionnaires (eg quizzes or feedback module in LMS) paper based or discussions Keeping up to date with technologies by attending and presenting at conferences, joining websites such as this and talking to oth... [read more]

Teresa Gibbison: Making it work: Support from IT to make this work Support from Management There’s isn’t enough time to do this so we need time made available for this. Share more however IP rules and regulations stifle this Engagement and Flexibility (from everyone)... [read more]

Barbara Duckett: From the ground up, we need to collaborate very closely to share different techniques, systems and adaptations to fit within the difficulties we deal with. Identify those strengths and weaknesses we have in common in our area, and build around those ... [read more]

Just a thought to see what others think - given the plethora of management systems that we are all tied into and which all need to interface wtih a least one other (usually incompatible) system, should be be biting the bullet and going all out for Web software, much free in a variety of ways, an dleaving expensive, cumbersome LMSs to the twentieth century?

Sue Bennett: Hi Sarah-Jane, I heard lots of discussion about this idea of late. I think a key concern in institutions is about IP. A lot of the 'free' tools come with a hidden price tag in that they claim ownership over any content which staff and students create... [read more]

Teresa Gibbison: I think we have to remember that the LMS isn't the bee all and end all of eLearning. There are some other wonderful tools and social media sites that fit some learning requirements much better. I think the LMS can be used as the tool to pull everythi... [read more]

What are peoples impressions of QR Codes. Do we all know what they are, what they can do? John

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Michele Mason: Thanks for this John, I had never heard of QR codes before so looked them up on the net and found a fairly good description, well one I could understand, in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

John Clayton: Thanks for the information Michele.

Teresa Gibbison: Hi John I'm keen to see QR codes all around the place, as is my colleague Dean. I was surprised I didn't see or hear any mention of them at eTLC09 or ULearn09 and when tweeting in Christchurch only one other attendee noticed and responded. To demonst... [read more]

Terry and Sue had a great time at Invercargill and really enjoyed the active engagement of all participants.Thank you Teri for all your efforts on thisJohn

Hopefully you will all see the new tab "Mobile Site" on the top of the screen This is a link to a mobile genearted "Winksite". Rember you to can creat mobile sites (up to 5) using this technology. Give it a go! John

The Northland symposia has just been held and participant feedback was very positive.Thank you to Vasi and her team for all the efforts, really enjoyed the day

Haast and back again. Absolutely beautful weather.Satelitte connections work one way really well, the download speed exceeds all exectations, but upload is slwerthan the normal dal-up so the school cannot take part in video-conferencng.The cell phone coverage for the area the school is in was supposed to come through June-July this year but nothing as yet.This is not about technology fashions and playing with it, it is about sending and recieving... [read more]

It is great to see so many librarians joining this network. Since they are a fundamental cog in successful eLearning activities please encourage other librarians to join us (link http://e-learning.crowdvine.com/) their contributions are invaluable.

I am going to Haast tomorrow, five hours drive there, I will be looking at cell phone range and coverage, broadband range and coverage and reliability, weather plays a big part here. No kidding I hear you say!I will take my laptop and pre-paid modem and as my cell also plugs into my computer, it will be interesting to see which does what the best.I will return....! Saturday.The QR code I posted has not worked since I di it. Obviously  it contains... [read more]