New England – Expanding our Universe
Jupiter and Ganymede
New England Institute continues its adventures and exploration of new boundaries with its shuttle load of teachers coming along for the ride.
Shifting, shaping and Moodling!
Since our last meeting we’ve run 6 face to face Moodle training sessions at Campuses around the Institute, travelling around 2000km to do so.
At the same time the team has worked with CLI to get the LRR underway. We’ve garnered strong Faculty support from Assistant Directors to facilitate uptake of their resource repository which will help with storage and retrieval of resources, validation, sharing of resources and also improve Institute wide storage management and requirements. This has been extended to a Data Classification Project which is a joint project between Information and Communication Technology Unit and Educational Developments Unit to establish a NEI data classification framework and rules.
Janison transfers have continued, based on an audit of enrolments and usage (type and frequency). CLI’s IMS extraction tool has been a great help in this.
Playing and planning!
Knowing how we love to play- ICT has decided to give us our own Educational Developments Unit sandpit so that we can extend our trials including integration of Mahara and Skillsbook, Joomla, and more…
The team have also developed a plan to repurpose our IDL studio into a dedicated M Studio- multicast studio, which we’re really excited about.
Spruiking!
Campus briefings for returning and new staff have been underway and the team has, via various means, managed to get around to nearly all Campuses to spruik about the “wonders” of the Learning and Assessment team and how we can help staff to effectively use learning technologies in their training and assessment.
We’re sure that 2009 will be an exciting year – full of challenges and opportunities, and new destinations to explore.
And… I’m sure we can help each other to expand the universe of our staff and communities, and to avoid those dreaded black holes we occasionally come across.
Report for FLN Feb 2009 Western Sydney Institute
Western Sydney Institute Report 2 Feb 2009
Lunch Bytes: series conducted in term 4 using Adobe Connect – one per week for 8 weeks. Well attended – currently seeking feedback for next series.
CLIPs VS EXe: evaluated a number of resource creation tools including Lectora and Exe. Planning to promote Exe within WSI/OTEN for teacher use and still use CLIPs for high end products.
Content Management: Participating in current TELS Equella trial to assess value visavi management of learning resource creation and also potential integration with OLS.
LMS: trialling Moodle in Automative area. Scoping volume of l’ware to be removed from Janison pending availability of a statewide CMS.
Capability development: range of activites; eLearning Facilitation running with two groups. Plan to develop short training program for managers to raise awareness of technologies to support teaching and learning and also with Industry Officers.
SAM and OLS for TAFE: progressing well. Sandpit environment to be available in April. Planning for Institute visits in March. Recruitment for support/ Helpdesk staff in progress.
Technologies to support delivery: Teaching and Learning Site (Sharepoint) for WSI – implementation strategies underway; some technical issues still to be resolved. WIKIspaces proving popular with 171 created to date. OLS running well – some enhancements in progress. Online submission of assignments via OLS increasingly popular.
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