A conversation on Alfresco Repository, Mahara, Mediawiki
Vicki and myself caught up with David Gilchrist, Dianne Van Berlo and Don Tainsh of New England Institute in Adobe Connect this morning to have a look at Alfresco - The Open Source Repository to which Dianne’s feedback on it’s features were along the lines:
Gosh this makes me excited for a Monday morning!
Yes Alfresco is well worth a look and integrates with Moodle 2.0 out of the box. I easily installed the application on my computer to show during the meeting, check out the recording you’ll have to fast forward to 17 min to see the demo though. Some things shown and discussed where:
- Alfresco’s easy to use clean interface
- Smart Spaces with Alfresco Share
- Auditable Content, Simple Check-In/Out and Version Control
- Easy Workflow Management
- Categories including tagging
- Permalinks to files
- File format conversion to Flash format (.swf) of uploaded media files to solve bandwidth limitations
- Easy File management (like Windows explorer) to upload files
- Tight integration with Moodle, Sharepoint and Microsoft Office.
- Ability to manage public private digital rights and licensing for different types of content.
- Federated search capabilities, ability to search simply across multiple
- Alfresco repositories and external wikis (Including Mediawiki), blogs and news feeds
Based on initial feedback I think it would be interesting to get teachers to trial the product as part of the Virtual Learning Environment project.
Framework Funding
Today we had a brief meeting in Connect to discuss next years funding in 2009.
Listen to recorded meeting with FLNs and Melanie Doriean, NSW E Learning Coordinator, Australian Flexible Learning Framework ICVET about funding proposal and submission dates.
Listen to eLearning08 to read and hear the projects 2008
Hunter Institute Update
In 2008 Hunter Institute created a Faculty eMentor Team. This team comprise 17 members 14 of whom are Faculty staff. So far their past a future achievements are:
· Showcase B&C, A&M and one other Faculty. Expecting 130 staff. Hands on Workshops
o eBeam
o Smartboard
o Video Conference
o Adobe Connect, Adobe Training module
o Moodle
o Raptivity
o Sharepoint
o Digital Storytelling
o Tablet Notebooks
o Camera Glasses
o Blogs, Wikis, YouTube
o CLI, LRR
o AFLF Toolbox Customisation, Funding workshops.
o SMS, Pod and Vodcasting
o Psychology behind eLearning
· Training programs – eBEams, Adobe, Video Conferencing for Teachers
· Products –
o VC training manual for teachers and one for support staff
o User Manual for eBeams
o How to use Smartboard video
o Smartboard electronic lesson plan for Smartboard training
o Captivate Tutorials
o Recorded VC sessions – Leadership
Welcome to the New and Improved FLN Blog!
The new blogging space for the FLN Network is now operational! All FLN members have been invited to join the space as contributors, and there are a range of new plugins and tools installed.
We are using WordPress MU to power this environment, and have included podcasting and video sharing tools, plus some extra Social networking functionality.
I hope you enjoy using this new and improved space! If you have any difficulties logging in or using the space, please feel free to email me! 
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