general+comments

peter way rest of march (but checking in when in internet range); jen away all april and not checking in.

4/3/10 peter, marlene and jen met & agreed as follows.

I'm thinking Friday 23rd for the Face to Face workshop in the morning, and an Elluminate Orientation for regional people in the afternoon (and those who can't get there in the morning) peter & I haven't discussed this. do we want to co-ord the face to face - and say have a ustream at each end? or skype? this could make it a bit more complicated. the elluminate would be good to do together.
 * Structure:** six weeks, weekly, starting 19 apr
 * Focus:** reorientation from tools to teaching purposes - while still presenting all the tools (see marlene's brainstorm doc [|Getting started with E-learning_Tassie_SA.docx])

I would be encouraging people to try and stay in levels 2 or 3 though so as to get the most out of it. yes, I agree marlene. I think it would be good if we set up for ourselves a rule of thumb for type of exercise and amt of time for each level, eg exploring = 1 hr and two good videos/articles etc on topic getting on in there = exploring commitment + ??? putting it into practice with students = two above + ??? and I'm not sure it getting students to do it is another layer or a subset of putting it into practice. I think having this agreed would be a good frame for us and helpful to participants.
 * Audience:** three levels - people who are exploring, those playing/getting hands dirty, and those you will be using for teaching (and those getting their students to use the tools/resources)

See the Overview page for my thinking on the themes. Just a rough suggestion at this stage though.
 * Content:** from the previous 23 things - blogging, photos and images, rss & newsreaders, tagging folksonomies & technorati, wikis, podcasts and video. this will be fitted into a more teaching focussed hierarchy (see mapping doc [|CENTRAL-#930106-v1-Mapping_vet_tet_23_Things_&_Commonly_Used_apps.DOC])

I'm thinking I would encourage the use of a blog to record their own learning journey, but not make it a required part of 'homework'...responding on forums //would be// required.  that sounds good - I agree we need to get the forums going. it would be good tho' for outcomes if everyone set up a blog. they are such a great engager and give quick results. Marlene suggested: periodic Elluminate demo (likely done by shaggy - who hasn't used elluminate yet); I have an Elluminate room and happy to do some practice sessions first. Would only use the basic tools anyway so don't need to know everything about it. Jen/me would be in there too for support and to sort out issues. Peter only to actually do demonstrations. Forums for communication between participants (likely one for each week); and a q&a type forum framework products: where possible use or refer people to framework products (when helpful/useful) acknowledging that a lot of the info we are sharing is based around open source type software
 * Approach:** forums, individual blogs, moodle as platform (jen - not sure if we will have a blog as well)

sa will run this course as fee for service; in tas there will be no charge

set up wiki (jen) set up course structure in moodle emania instance (peter) develop course content using wiki (jen/marlene/peter - jen & marlene while peter away) develop flyer / promo ??
 * actions:**

shaggy's 23 things [] frankie's e-learning on a shoestring [] from tas polytechnic - e-learning central with good links to how tos for tools [] [|VET teacher eLearning toolkit]
 * useful links**