Creating, Collecting, Contextualising, Compiling, Consuming, Collaborating and Confirming eLearning

Jun 22

posted by Mark Christie in Authoring Tools, Learning Objects, Podcast, Scootle, Picasa, Agile Learning, eLearning, Audio and Sound | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

 When we think about teaching something, we will normally look, from a formal sense at the outcomes required and then apply a treatment or method of delivery that will hopefully engage the intended audience. Some may call that contextualisation if they have a VET background.

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Microsoft Learning Suite - filled with cool tools

Dec 1

posted by Mark Christie in Learning Objects, Microsoft, Windows, Resources | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

The Microsoft Learning Suite is a freely distributed suite of materials and tools for teachers and students to use in the classroom. With almost all locations in the NT (and around Australia) using Windows and Microsoft Office as key aspects of the education operating environment, it is good that these tools are all in one place.

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This entry was posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:57 PM and has received 615 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Brilliant Social Comics for teenagers - warning PG advised

Sep 10

posted by Mark Christie in Learning Objects, eBooks, Resources | 3 Comments Bookmark and Share

Inception Strategies creates comic books with incredible artwork and powerful messages for young people of today. Focussing on youth issues in indigenous urban and rural environments there are powerful messages in these comics. There are some themes that are really aimed at the teen+ age group so I don't suggest the material is appropriate for primary school children. Well now you can view these comic books online...

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Crowdsourcing - nifty term or a chance to make a difference

Jul 29

posted by Mark Christie in Google, Learning Objects, Microsoft, Copyright Matters, Web 2.0, Resources, crowdsourcing, clipart, Geography | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

This post originates from a path and a series of events that has become a life practise over the past number of years. I read the Age and the NT News online and generally from the IT section of the Age find an interesting article and follow links within the article or google a word I don't know. If the interest continues and it is related to eLearning (or flying or family) I might see if the knowledge or idea presented can be applied or reinterpreted into a context for my world. I say "my" because it is a little serendipitous, random and self indulgent.

Which brings me to crowdsourcing.

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Story Based Design - Is a blog a story?

Feb 4

posted by Mark Christie in Moodle, Learning Objects, eLearning, instructional design, Flash, Agile Learning, Resources, Camtasia | 1 Comments Bookmark and Share

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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Converting educational DVDs for on demand delivery into the classroom

Jan 25

posted by Mark Christie in Moodle, File management, TV Channel, Learning Objects, Software Tips, Web 2.0, Flash, Podcast, Video, Agile Learning, Windows | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

We have a number of exceptional learning assets from the Australian Children Television Foundation. These are distributed on DVD and are in a variety of formats. The most common formats are Adobe PDF, DVD Movie, executable flash, FLV (Flash Video) and some html documents.

The challenge is to convert where required and upload the content into our network in a way that teachers can access and use within our network, but the resources cannot be copied or reused outside of the scope of our license.

The content of the DVDs should be in a format that a teacher in a remote or urban location can play the video on an electronic whiteboard or projector to the class and if a student misses out because they were absent, they can login from school or home to review the content at their convenience.

How did we do it?

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Scootle - Over 8000 learning objects and some new stuff...

Aug 6

posted by Mark Christie in Learning Objects, Scootle, Resources | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

They have over 240 Chinese language objects which is a particular passion of mine and here is a link to their latest newsletter

http://www.scootle.edu.au/pages/newsletter/august_09/index.html which talks about their new ability for subscriber educators to create saveable learning sequences for delivery online.

 

http://www.scootle.edu.au/

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