Media Resource Kits

These kits have now been placed in college libraries. The larger colleges received two kits. Technology Trainers in place at each College – this was part of the ANT2 project for WSI.

Media Resource Kit resources – a protected wiki

http://mrk.westernsydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/

Technology trainers community – a private wiki

http://ttcommunity.westernsydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/

Common training sessions being held at each location include: Librarians session, demonstration to college executive and hands on training sessions for teachers. The trainers will become part of the just in time trainers network into 2009.

The kits have been very popular at a number of the colleges especially where management including Head Teachers are promoting their use.

eLearning Facilitator’s Course

This semester we have 2 groups working through the eLF program with 12 in one group and 15 in the other. The second group is about 2 weeks behind the first group. We had about 40 teachers apply to undertake the program and are planning on running more groups next year.

Delivery is via2 wikis and Adobe Connect.

The content wiki (protected) and discussion pages are on:

http://elf.westernsydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net

The eLF network collaboration wiki – private

http://elf4us.westernsydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net

Enrolment & assessment for the TAADEL501A unit will be undertaken by those who choose to submit evidence to be assessed for this unit. We are holding our first assessment workshop on Friday 7 November. This is when participants will be enrolled in the unit using the TWG code.

WIKIspaces Private Label

The WSI wikispaces private label has been popular with teachers especially in General Education and Child Studies. Since it has been available (from about April 08) we have had approx 140 spaces created. We currently have just on 400 users registered in the private wikispace.

There have been a number of communication strategies used to inform staff about the wikispace including; Lunch Bytes session, LTU Newsletter, Presentations at College Executive meetings, consultation and training sessions with teaching sections. Currently we are working on the integration of TALS portal and wikispaces so that content resources are stored on the TALS portal and accessed through the wiki interface. See a presentation given at the recent Lunch Bytes session by a child studies teacher from Nepean.

Karen Daniels Presentation
http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/p55485388/

Teaching and Learning Services Website

(Sharepoint 2007)

The new TALS site for WSI teachers has been launched as of two weeks ago. Mentors have attended a training session. The site provides a tool for teachers to collaborate with their colleagues and also to create a website for their students. College based websites can also be created.

Focus is on transferring sites from the old TALS to the new. Site designed to facilitate exposing and sharing of resource across faculty lines within WSI.

Investigating how we might use LRR to tag and reference resources on the site. Next priority is getting the online assignment submission area working.

Link to a captivate presentation about the site:

http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/talsvideo

Online Learning Support site (OLS)

The new OLS went live on 27 October and is running smoothly. The site was originally launched in 2002 and was redeveloped this year based on feedback from OTEN students and teachers. Authentification is now via the DET user ID.

The site will be showcased at the TAFE Quality Awards if you would like to see it and is up for assessment.

Janison Replacement

Currently still using Janison but also conducting small scale Sakai and Moodle trials. We plan to conduct some teacher focus groups at the end of this term to inform thinking about if we still need an LMS.

Have prepared a list of learningware that needs to exported from Janison once we make the decision.

Lunch Bytes

2 held so far – using Adobe Connect. 1 hour session from 12-1pm on Wednesdays. @2 People participated in the WIKI one and 28 in the TALS one. CLI to run two on Finding Resources in November. So far very well received.

2008 Teaching and Learning Innovation Showcases

· 2 conducted at OTEN related to distance education

· 2 conducted at WSI

· WIKI now being used to support these events.

· Adobe used to also broadcast the events – 35 people connected via Adobe to the WSI Showcase on 30 October and about 50 attended in person.

SAM and OLS for TAFE Project

Project progressing well. Newsletter and update to go to Institute Directors this week. One rep from every Institute coming to OTEN on 4 Nov. to be trained in the ‘sandpit’ version of SAM – this will be critical in gaining feedback from users on implementation considerations.

Plan to run some trials in Semester 1 2009.

Learning Technologies Newsletters

3 issues produced in 2008