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 * GippsTAFE Online Facilitation Course - April 2011 **


 * Resources Work Task**

Welcome to the wiki for the GippsTAFE Online Facilitation Course (April 2011) 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. :)


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**Online Facilitation Resources**
 * Australian Flexible Learning Framework**

Check out this link for the latest e-learning news and developments, as well as links to products, resources and support networks.

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Exhibitions, programs and events linked to the history of visual culture in Australia, and other cultures that have influenced art craft and design nationally. Useful resources that focus on social aspects and experiences of art craft architecture and design, including activities and research resources that can be used by students and lecturers. Sue Geddes-Page

Oooo thanks Sue, I went to have a quick look at this and was entranced by the exhibits.. my daughter will find this site really useful too. :) cheers Frankie

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Art in 21st Century series: DVDs, artists biographies, newsletter, programs and resources. Lecturer and student resources. DVDs are excellent teaching tools. Sue Geddes-Page

I have a friend who is seriously into art so I'll be passing on this website (and the next too) to her. :) cheers Frankie

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List hundreds of topics, styles, cultures with supporting resources in many different formats. Useful to lecturers as a resource, and as a source of information and illustrations of art forms. Sue Geddes-Page Amazing resource indeed Sue. cheers Frankie

The artist mark bradford's page []

An excellent example of an artists site. Linda Banazis Wow, it's amazing...but it's heavily flash based so get the broadband working! Tx for this Linda, cheers Frankie

[] Articles and critiques about international visual arts. Linda Banazis [] To view changing exhibitions of modern visual art. Linda Banazis Don't know about everyone else but I'm learning heaps visiting these sites. Thank you! cheers Frankie

A collection of e-learning related websites can be found at my delicious webiste: @http://www.delicious.com/jdsorensen/e-learning Enjoy, from Jeremy

Thanks Jeremy, I found a number of them useful - especially the last one you entered! Just wondering, if you had to pick one link that you thought might be useful for the whole group, which would you pick? cheers Frankie

OK, you've got me, thought I'd be slack and just show you what I've already done. But I did come across a very useful one just the other day which isn't yet on my delicious page. []. This is probably useful for most learning areas (being OSH related) and the content and assessments have already been mapped to nationally recognised UOC's. Why reinvent the wheel when these are there ready to use (similar to objects on LORN I suppose), excep these ones I think you need to link to, rather than import to whatever LMS you're using.

Lol, no harm is reusing existing stuff!!! And I'm glad you added the extra information OHS is universally needed. cheers Frankie

**Adobe Presenter** is a really cool tool for creating interactive online content from your existing powerpoint presentations, and its available FREE for all CIT Lecturers. Check out the following link to view a 9 minute demo. [] You may need to download Adobe Flash Player to view the video, but that's free too and will only take a few minutes.

As mentioned on the discussion forum in Blackboard, also checkout ** Acrobat X Pro **, which is a great tool for publishing a range of different files online. []

Thanks Jeremy, another couple of goodies - esp the how to use presenter. Thanks :) cheers Frankie


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I found this one fascinating, again it will be useful for my daughter's studies. Thanks Vicky! cheers Frankie

[] e-portfolios provide an online community of supprt and assistance with e-learning. It is about learner centred learning providing a link between assessment and learning.

[] [] These 2 health & fitness sites remind me there are plenty of fun, interactive learning sites to direct students to so I don't have to reinvent the wheel. Lee.S Thanks Lee, the e-portfolio site is a really useful one, especially now they allow exports to other systems. I also loved the bmi health calculator and the games look like fun. :) cheers, Frankie

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A great source for locating images to use in Blackboard that can be attributed in keeping with Copyright Legislation. Probably everyone knows about it but..... bye now Bernadette

Thanks Bernadette, another similar one is [] which gives an option of automatically adding a credit. All good! cheers Frankie Already found an image I might use from your suggestion Frankie, so many thanks. Only put one site here even though I did read we should put 2 or 3 as those I go to are more just looking and not necessarily ones to really recommend! Bernadette

Glad you found it useful Bernadette and better one really useful site than many not so useful. Plus if you find others later it's easy enough to add them in. :) cheers, Frankie

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i have started looking for new ideas for energizers and ice breakers and this website has some great short ones to use. i am going to try to adapt in an online environment to see how they go.

cheers Bronwyn

There's some really interesting icebreakers at this site Bronwyn, as you've found, it would be really interesting to see how you adapt them for the online world. :)

One of my favourites is the LORN repository on the Flexible learning framework site mentioned above. It's perfect for gathering ideas or resources that have already been compiled, giving online content without reinventing the wheel.

Another useful resource I use with my students are industry based RSS feeds. For example, Industry journals or newsletters with current updates are linked to the course site - this appears for the student with new information at the time the source website is updated. This gives 'live' access to current issues, developments or information. In my industry area these could be travel warnings, health issues, global news air traffic etc, But there are many organisations using RSS to get exposure on the web.

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Or a sample of what is available, e.g. ABC news etc []

Cheers Karen

Thanks Karen, totally agree with you on both counts! What's your favourite rss reader? cheers, Frankie

Ones that I haven't used as much as I would like...

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Ferg <span style="color: #008000; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hi Ferg, lots of goodies here! Love slideshare and the ted talks, the rezscore and skepdic were new to me. Goodluck too with your new WP site. :) cheers, Frankie

Hi everyone I am new to this and am discovering that you can spend hours searching for onoline education material as there is a wealth of information on the net. So having people who you trust to guide you to valuable and reliable sites is fantastic, thank you. One I have found recently is Australias free online network for educators [] it has a wealth of information. For those who have been in the education game for a long time probably already know about this one.

Another tool for creating presentations that a lot more interactive than the standard PPP is []

Cheers Tina

<span style="color: #008000; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Thanks Tina, yes Edna is a fantastic resource and while I love what prezi does I've not made the change to it from PP. Have you used it much? Cheers Frankie

Hi another web site I found is [| http://www.funandgames.org/games/GameIcebreakers.htm]

Cheers Tina

<span style="color: #008000; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Looks good Tina, I'm still searching for one that has purely online icebreakers/games. Thiagi is as near as I have come. :) cheers Frankie

Oh, I'm stuck. I just entered a message on the "discussions" page about [|http://www.mathsonline.com.au] Cheers, Jane

Hi Jane, looks like you found how to make the entry here. Well done! I've just posted a reply to you in the discussion area but you beat me to it by posting here. :) Cheers Frankie

Following from our telephone conference today the link to exe is:

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However I really recommend for Central 'students' in this course to go onto our Blackboard and check out Teach with Technology at Central which has the details needed to do it! Remember that Central has its own official style that must be applied! And finally make use of your Innovative Practice Mentor!

Thanks Bernadette, great advice! cheers Frankie :)

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Here are some good websites we use often. They demonstrate to students the content we talk about.

Sarah

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Thanks Sarah, I know of teachertube but teachertv was new to me. Love it! cheers Frankie

I have found that [|http://www.about.com] has an answer for every question.

Jane

Absolutely Jane, I've used it a few times myself and found it great. :) cheers, Frankie

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Some great resources here!

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I use a blog site for students to create websites and blogs that is easy to use and works really well.

Wordpress.com

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Helen Hi Helen, yes wordpress is a great tool - in many ways much more than a blog. cheers Frankie

For those of you who facilitate anything to do with business the following may be of use. It has certainly helped me out with a huge amount of info over the years.

[|www.businessballs.com]

Worth a visit if you need to explain Maslow (I prefer Herzberg!!) to those eager young minds.

Claude

Hi Claude, looks like one I'll need to go and check out for sure! Tx, cheers Frankie

These are the links supplied by Brad Shaw in the Voice Board Discussion, Cheers Frankie Try these blogs:

http://arthistory.we-wish.net/

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/08/17/50-best-blogs-for-art-history-buffs/

http://artdesignblog.com/

Try this Podcast site: (click on either Art Babble, ITunes, Listen RSS etc) http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm

A great site for creative online games is [|www.designplanet.com.au] There are loads of ideas for stretching the imagination of the participants.

[|www.english-to-go.com] has resources on almost any topic imaginable with lessons, online quizzes, games and chat. It's free.

[|www.bbc.co.uk/languages] has online courses for around 40 languages, including a link to [|www.TV5Monde/iphone] where you can learn French on your iphone!!.. but it is also available through the TV5Monde website. Vanda

Wheeee! Well done Vanda!!. It's fantastic that you've managed to post your links. Time for the champers. :) cheers Frankie