LearnShifting

 Last week I attended a course creator and administration course for Moodle 2.2, the latest release to be deployed within the Department of Education here in the Northern Territory.

I won't try to repeat the three days of excellent training provideded by Julian of Pukunui but I will note the things that resonated with me as a person who manages the backend of our moodle system.

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This entry was posted on March 19, 2012 at 5:07 AM and has received 230 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

We are currently holding discussions across various agencies about learning management systems and delivery of training. I will be providing a list of solutions here that are probably a best bet. Before I do that, let's look again at the problem we are trying to solve or the efficiencies we are trying to achieve.

Common forms of training like orientation, financial procedures, health and safety are delivered face to face, sometimes involving travel and often repeated. These forms of training are good candidates for conversion to eLearning.

Additionally, many of these courses are very similar in nature and content across agencies is also very similar which means that if we can gather a common set of technologies and skills, agencies will be in a situation to share courses and content for repurposing without having to build from the ground up.

We can divide the learning requirements into training and support.

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This entry was posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM and has received 310 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

There are a lot of tools we can use to create online learning. Everything from MS Word through to Articulate's range of products. What I have at the following link is a ranking of tools by satisfaction. http://elearningtech.pbworks.com/ToolSatisfaction These charts group tools into authoring, rapid elearning and simulation and include another chart of how many people responded, suggesting usage rates for the tool.

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This entry was posted on April 13, 2010 at 10:56 PM and has received 325 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Okay, you have to do that software demonstration using camtasia, jing, captivate or any of those screen recorders, or you want to create a podcast or you want to create a news broadcast like the ones they use on the True Blue News Network.

You think it is easy, but after the 15th take you realise why broadcasters get paid for what they do.

Don't worry, you can now use a free (for 90 days) autocue / teleprompter tool on your PC to read out your podcast smoothly. You can download it from http://download.cnet.com/Podcast-Autocue/3000-2169_4-10488941.html?tag=bc

It is fairly basic, but basic is good... just paste your text in, set the speed of the scroll and font size - set up your sound recorder and off you go.

Apart from podcasting, you can use it to play a slideshow, write your travelogue notes for the slide show and then play back the slideshow and record using the teleprompter to scroll through the text. Yes you can just print it out, but the rustling of papers near the microphone can sometimes be annoying.

Here is an adaption of a mini soundproofing studio I saw someone setup. Obviously the microphone should be lower, but I think you get the idea.

And yes, I did use the autocue product to record the attached podcast.

mike

This entry was posted on April 7, 2010 at 6:22 AM and has received 331 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

Mathletics is an online service that some schools subscribe to that let students log in and compete in math quizzes against the clock or against other students from around the worl. It costs about 90 dollars AUD for a home account which is what our son has and I believe about 30 dollars AUD for a school based account. I would love to see "Physletics" and "Chemletics" as well but having maths and english is a great start. (Spellodrome is their spelling product).

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This entry was posted on April 6, 2010 at 4:09 PM and has received 926 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

School has started. 

On both sides of the fence - teacher and pupil share an the initial nervousness as the two parties start to introduce each other, set ground rules and begin the journey of learning and teaching. In our world of 2010, who is the learner and who is the teacher sometimes blurs and it takes a good class team to work together harmoniously with that mixed metaphor of students teaching learning teachers and vice versa.

This posting provides an example in a blog narrative format of something I had to do recently. So recently that I am still doing it...

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This entry was posted on February 4, 2010 at 8:26 AM and has received 355 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.