Talking VTE Episode #3

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Synopsis

Alex Hayes, Geordie Jay, Robyn Jay & Stephan Ridgway have a conversation around the use of social networking services such as myspace and facebook by educators to communicate with students.

Links Relevant to the podcast:

Myspace

Facebook

YouTube

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M-Learning : Mobility, Social Cause or Just Downright Disruption ?

Graham Wegner dropped me a link through my del.icio.us network re: mobile phones in use in school in Bangladesh. I see the same enthusiasm for contemplating the use of mobile learning in schools and VET communities here in Australia.

I’m heartened to see that people are taking this seriously now. Much of the user-generated content in YouTube is mobile generated. Perhaps TeacherTube might let us in through the firewall to see this user generated stuff ….but for how long ?

What’s your views on mobile learning ? Do you own a phone ? Can you see everyday handheld disruptive technology becoming part of mainstream education ? If not …..why not ?

WikiEducator : Collaborative or as Thick As Thieves ?

I spoke with Wendy Zammit this morning about WikiEducator and why it’s a better option for students and teachers alike to consider using non Google ad. driven commercial wiki’s, rather learn how to use MediWiki markup and make information shareable.

The recording with Wendy was a little patchy as we had a staggered line and my headphones need replacing however here is the recording. I challenge you to point me to a few open beginners Adobe Connect links of your own.

Wikispaces has been a good start and sandpit - now for the serious stuff. MediaWiki is the main platform underpinning all of this. Here’s an example of what I was expecting to see last year with the use of wikispaces.

Here’s how I’m growing an idea from a concept to reality rather than burying the dialogue in a zillion emails.

What’s so good about wiki’s ? Are we ever likely to see then replace our intranet ? Do they flatten the playing field and are you likely to engage your learners with them or is it still a fad ?

Mrs. Burk : TeacherTube

DEMOS : Their Spaces.

The DEMOS group have come up with yet another interesting article / publication released under Creative Commons relating to the perceptions of young people, online spaces and places, issues with FOAF and perhaps even a little bit of hint towards how e can contemplate as educators what to do with social networking technologies.

I’m tagging these as ’socialnetworking’ in my del.icio.us account as a way to keep track of these as I look further into what exists where and who feels that they have any merit in an educational context.

I’m also heartened to see that CLI are sharing their ETIS resources via the new look site located here Let me know if you have any issues accessing this information.

Wikipedia

And you thought wikipedia was just another dictionary - think not.

Imagine where it’s taking fact and the description of history to nowadays.

Talking VTE Episode #2 - Part 1

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Synopsis

Alex and Stephan are joined by Skype by Bill Wade, Graham Wegner & Sue Waters. The theme for the discussion is “space and place”. The podcast was broken into 2 parts for the convenience of subscribers.

Links Relevant to the podcast:

Parnngurr school Blog
http://parnngurrschool.blogspot.com/

Parnngurr moblog
http://www.moblog.co.uk/blog/mobdeadly

Mobile Technology in TAFE - Podcast
http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/

Charles Darwin University
http://www.cdu.edu.au/

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Talking VTE Eposode #2 - Part 2

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DET : Sheriff

Faced with yet another blockage via the DET web portal I’ve contacted our internal helpdesk and been sent a link which may explain some of the issues you may be experiencing with delays in our site.

We are continually monitoring and investigating the issues you may be having as a LearnScope team member and your feedback from the field is valued and acted upon. In many instances the errors may be explained using the information site forwarded to Robyn and I.

Blah Blah

It has taken six weeks and an awful lot of of arguing and bickering but it finally looks like we have come up with a three stage business plan to be implemented over the next three years.

It seemed like we would never get there with all our differences and the complex nature of it all however, I’m so awfully proud that we got it pinned down and now have something substantial to present at the next ICAC meeting.

Well done team !

FLNW2

Today I built the FLNW2 page with the world. I’m exhausted and happy.

WikiEducator rocks.

FLNW2

E-Portfolios : More Dribble

WWW3 As PLE : Mark as RSS Mentor

On the agenda at the TALO Swapmeet in Adelaide, Australia blogger colleague Graham Wegner raised ( razed ? ) the ambient tones with his renditions on what for me has become another capitalist push/sell product substantiation in schools and education settings - globally better of for known as the PLE.

Spread liberally throughout his blog is the term PLE for want of a better acronym - search it and look for Barrett.

In a box. One size fits the class. Or a series of spaces scraped into one management system which hopefully plugs into another one two years down the track when the learner graduates from university at the ripe old age of nineteen and assumes a rotating case workers role with the Department Of Community Services as a social worker and re-enrols in the third option they originally chose at the local polytechnic - multimedia mayhem.

Mark van Harmelen does a better job of PLE interrogation than I’ll ever have time to afford it. Best I leave it to those who want to discover something through years of research and a Phd.

Better still why not go back a bit further and see what Mark Diggs . Or better still check out this PLE and social networks bibsonomy that makes my already spinning he do a complete 360.
Or check out where the CLCommunity left off whilst we gethered our thoughts and tackled the prims in SecondLife. Or wonder why and what’s become of the Web 2.0 debate. Does too much money mean we abandon all sense and make rules as to how to use blogs and wiki’s . Erk !

More rules suck big time. For whom the bell tolls.

There’s too much out there for me to think that an LMS is a model of anything except for controlling knowledge and effecting admin. I dont care what brand does what - if it dosent transport then yuck. If it dosent allow open digital rights economy and digital media literacy the double yuck.

I consider my PLE as ‘alexanderhayes ‘ - my name, my tag, my PLE. It will never change and I’ll never be able to breastfeed.

The internet and all of of it’s tendrils are my networked learning engine . I have no need for anything more than access and the ability to export.

I trust that the internet as we know it wont die my life time. I trust in it. The www knows more of me that I know of it.

What we will be battling with is how to integrate things like Zimbra, WikiEducator and BibSonomy into our aged educational architectures.

I concur with Leigh when he states ” the internet is my PLE“. It’s mine too although my web presence probably dates back a little further. Only cause I’m older

Thanks Mark. You rock.

Skype me some time : mobology

Ps. virtual micro-mentors ….got a feed for that ?

Pss. another take over here at Graham’s post-moderated space.

Industry Engagement : Recordings

Jenny Dodd and Sue McShane from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework visited 1 Oxford Street, Sydney today presenting to interested and potential project managers. There was a full room and many interested representatives from all walks of business life.

Jeff Saul reports that the Framework’s Industry Engagement Team are on their way back to Canberra. They were very pleased with both the number and profile of attendees today – 36 at Parramatta for breakfast and 52 here at Oxford St for lunch.

LearnScope Podcast
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TOL 2 Breeze - Adobe Connect
1 hour in duration ( complete with slide muckups and audio anomalies - apologies….it’s a steep learning mash)
Live recording here

Alex Hayes
NSW LearnScope
Project Officer

Engageme

I was asked by Vivian Evans today if I could come online at some stage and talk to her students about moblogging and so on via Adobe Connect which I will still do - supplemented by this little gem of resources I found tucked away in the archives.

Perhaps you’d like to re-morph the whole thing and send us back your version.

In 2005 Anne Paterson and I came up with this bright idea of paralleling the Engageme project funded by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, E-Learning For Target Groups with resources which would / could be quickly disseminated.

We ran the Engageme Project project alongside the Digital Outback Project which had the Mobdeadly group involved.

Very fine moblog that one !

That led to Podmob and the Jigalong group getting on board and before long the whole of Australia was moblogging including our own AFLF gurus.

We decided that a CD format would suffice and those more adventurous and with enough bandwidth could download / play the Series One edition of Engageme which focussed on moblogging, podcasting and videoblogging. Jasper Collie provided us with a bit of technical advice and a flash intro but aside from that it was hard slog for four weeks of my time teaching myself and getting advice from the TALO group along the way.

Looking back makes me cringe with designer faults and alt issues however…..here it is for your critical assay.
At the time the Engageme project was picked up by a number of overseas mobile investigators which are mentioned somewhere in the del.icio.us mlearning area.

We were asked to create a project media file for dissemination rather than a lengthy ( and in some ways pointless) word document. Anne and I decided to do a simple digital story that wrapped the whole thing up.

Check it out .

Perhaps your NSW LearnScope final project summary in 2007 could look something better than this.

We then collapsed and had a holiday……of sorts. I went back home ( Western Australia ) and curled up in a digital cocoon for at least two weeks.

Some say online is easier…..I say it can be…….. provided your creative and a multi-tasker.

Alex Hayes
NSW LearnScope
Project Officer

TALO : SwapMeet Fly-By

Click To Play Meet The Outer Circle

OWPFOSS : Capability Building

Art Links

Check these out.

• 73 urban journeys
• A Wild Young Under-Whimsy
• Adrian Miles
• antipopper
• Ashley Benigno
• Axel Bruns
• Barbara Ganley
• Boing Boing
• Caterina Fake
• Charlotte Street
• Christy Dena
• cityofsound
• Craft Research
• CultureCat
• danah boyd
• Designed Objects
• DeuzeBlog
• Digital Ethnography
• DIY Media Weblog
• dogpossum
• Earmarks
• Emanations
• Epistemographer
• Event Mechanics
• Extreme Craft
• Footpath Zeitgeist
• Fresh + New
• Going Somewhere
• Grant McCracken
• heavy little objects
• Henry Jenkins
• Hobby Princess
• Home Cooked Theory
• IDEANT
• investigativeblog.net
• Jane McGonigal
• Jaz Choi
• Jeremy Hunsinger
• Jill Walker
• Jodi Dean
• journalisms
• Junk For Code
• Kylie Veale
• lorbus
• Lost in Light
• Making WiFi
• Marika Lüders
• Mathias Klang
• matt jones
• Media(at)LSE Blog
• My Mom’s Blog
• My Ugly Sweater
• New Literacy, New Audiences
• Nic Suzor
• Paul Holland
• Photos leave home
• Purse Lip Square Jaw
• ReadyMade Blog
• research.techkwondo
• Richard Hod
• Roll the Bones
• Sarsparilla
• Satan’s Laundromat
• Seth Keen
• Social Design Notes
• Sorrow at Sill’s Bend
• space and culture
• Steven Shaviro
• sushiblog
• Swarming Media
• terra is my nation
• test
• the chutry experiment
• The Film of Tomorrow
• The Memes of Production
• Things Magazine
• this Public Address 3.0
• Weekly INCITE
• well futile
• whip up
• Wolves Evolve
• wood s lot

Better check them myself !

A2K V DMCA

One person that REALLY impressed me at the recent TALO Swapmet gig was Janet over at Lucychilli - an apt definitive for clear-cut FOSS and OS advocacy.

Not too say that I did’nt felt any real difference from meeting with Bill Kerr, Graham Wegner, Peter Allen , Al Upton and all the others present. They rock and they roll.

Janet’s discussion on copyright, open alliance schools and OWP really blew me away. I wished I’d had time to tell her so. What a mind.

Oh well. That’s what the web is for. We are all blogging on the same engine.

Some of us just operate in manual and some in automatic.

Who’s The Teacher Now ?

Everyday For Six Years

Response

The connection is what matters.

* ps. The trick is to have both videos playing at the same time.

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