el09workshops

=DAY 1= =Session 1 : 11:15 - 12:15=

This project used e-learning to address career choices and planning for the future for indigenous youth. The team used a variety of technologies to link up Indigenous learners across the state, including Wetpaint, Voicethreads and Adobe connect to help to keep this indigenous language alive. Prior to the commencement of this project, the artists from Boolarng Nangamai conducted face to face training in cultural awareness and Indigenous art and craft skills to schools and other groups. The //Connecting Communities// project has embedded online technologies into the business practices of these Indigenous artists. From learning these skills they can literally take their skills to the world via their website and webinars.
 * Breakout session 1.1 - MENZIES**
 * ** 2009 Innovation Project Presentation (Indigenous) - //Teams: 81, 46, 62// **
 * Team 81: " Deadly Skills, deadly future" .**
 * Team 46: Gamilaraay Online - teaching and learning Indigenous language via the web**
 * Team 62: ‘Connecting Communities’ – lessening the divide**

Twitter has taken the social networking world by storm and if you're anything like me, that often makes you feel like running the other way. However there are some emergent practices in the Twitterverse that are pretty interesting and in this session I'll be showing you why I think they're worth noting.
 * Breakout Session 1.2 MENZIES**
 * **Why I Hang Around with Twits -** //Rose Grozdanic, Business Manager Innovation Program, Australian Flexible Learning Framework//

Web conferencing connects students, teachers and training organisations together in a flexible and engaging online environment. It can promote group interaction, reduce travel costs and help students overcome distance barriers. This presentation explores the impact of Adobe Connect for teachers and students and provides guidelines for effective online facilitation.
 * Breakout Session 1.3 MENZIES**
 * **Connected: effective facilitation for web conferencing -** //**Rory OBrien ,** Centre for Learning Innovation//

This session will provide an overview of educational copyright including: What is covered by copyright; Educational provisions of copyright; What you can and can’t do in a digital classroom and Creative commons and Free for Education licences.
 * Breakout Session 1. 4 MENZIES**
 * ** Getting Copyright 'Right' for the Digital Classroom - //Vanessa Tuckfield// **

//**AT CLIFTONS**// **//computer rooms 200 George St - approximately 5 Minutes walk from The Menzies//

Breakout Session 1.5** -**CLIFTONS only 20 places available in each computer training room - CR 1** The purpose of this workshop is to give a " hands on " experience of the use of Point of View (POV) camera glasses technology in an asssessment context. They will experience what a learner feels and the challenges they face when undergoing assessment with POV.
 * ** POV & assessment - //Katrina Sommers and Les Skennar// **

ARED or "Applications for Rapid E-learning Development" provides practitioners with ready-made, re-usable templates that can be used to generate high quality, cost effective, e-learning resources. See how an interactive resource: • can be built in as little as 5 minutes. • takes up very little disk space and therefore is highly portable. • can be linked into other resources (as part of a Learner Management System course or any other webpage, for example). In this session you'll have a chance to explore the resource and discuss it's uses in VET.
 * Breakout Session 1.6 - CLIFTONS only 20 places available - CR 2**
 * ** Applications for rapid e-learning development (ARED): Building interactive activities - //Shane Dowd// **

=Session 2 : 12:30 - 1:30 pm= Second Life, OpenSim, ReactionGrid, Metaplace and beyond! The virtual worlds space is brimming with new possibilities for education at the moment. In this session we'll take a quick trip through the metaverse and check out some of the options for teaching and learning in immersive environments.
 * Breakout Session 2.1 Auditorium MENZIES**
 * ** //Tripping in the Metaverse!// An overview of some of the latest innovations in virtual worlds education - //Jo Kay// **

Are you thinking of applying for NSW E-learning Innovations funding in 2010? Do you have an e-learning strategy? This round table discussion will guide you through some common issues that must be considered when you are developing an e-learning strategy. This is an overview of the design,configuration and operation of a practical IT networking lab using VMWare. To date the aged care industry sector has had minimal interaction and uptake of e-learning training opportunities in the workplace. Given that this workforce is spread across the breadth of NSW, in metropolitan, regional, rural and remote locations, a workplace based e-learning option will encourage greater uptake of this training delivery method. The e-learning resource resulting from the 2009 partnership between NSW Dental Assistants (Professional) Association (DAA) and NSW Community Services and Health ITAB (CSHITAB) will be available to learners without cost via the CSHITAB website. This presentation will look at the resource and explore the challenges and successes of the project
 * Breakout session 2.2 MENZIES**
 * ** Thinking of applying for Innovations Funding...Tips to help you develop your e-learning strategy - //Gail Smith// **
 * ** 2009 Innovation Project showcases - //Teams 38,69,25// **
 * Team 38: Virtual IT Networking Lab.**
 * Team 69: The e-Abilities wiki** -this project was designed to assist students with a disability who are undertaking distance education make the best use of adaptive technology. The session will cover an overview of the wiki, it's background / development, lessons learned / what worked and future directions
 * Team 25: Skilling aged care workers to provide oral and dental health care**

This presentation demonstrates how to manage video e-portfolios for teaching and assessment.**.** It will show examples of real time recording by students and education in a streamed, archived and re-usable online video portfolio. These techniques are having an impact on teaching and assessment in many educational settings.
 * Breakout Session 2.4 MENZIES**
 * ** Streamfolio: online video portfolio - //Alex Hayes & Geoff Lubich// **

//**AT CLIFTONS**// **//computer rooms 200 George St - 5 Minutes walk from The Menzies//** Why reinvent the wheel? LORN provides access to learning objects from a variety of repositories, many of which can be personalised. This presentation will showcase how to get the best out of the new LORN website and will demonstrate how to find and download learning objects and what to do with them.
 * 2.5 - CLIFTONS computer rooms - limit of 20 places - CR 1**
 * ** LORN - Incorporating Digital Learning Objects in Your Teaching and Learning - //Kim Edgar// **

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows you to comment with voice, text or doodling. You can invite others to join and add comments. this tool offers choices in collaboration and publication and is readily embedded into other forms of technology eg.Wikis. . This session will provide participants with an overview of the features of Voice thread and how you can use it for feedback and reflection. **For this workshop you will need to bring a headset with microphone if you have one.**
 * Breakout Session 2.6 - CLIFTONS CR 1**
 * **Voicethreads : collaborative digital storytelling - //Vivian Evans//**

Session 3 : 3:00 - 4:00pm
The session will focus on the instructional design principles in creating effective teaching materials in Captivate. However rather than focussing on the software specifically, we will look at instructional design principles that will result in more effective teaching and learning that can be applied to a range of different electronic resources.
 * Breakout Session 3.1 MENZIES**
 * **Using Captivate for teaching: Is it an art or science?** - // Chris Froissard, Centre for Learning Innovation //

Hunter New England Health Services are using a Moodle platform called //myLink Learning Portal// to meet the challenge of training staff over a widely dispersed area. Health Services units and communities of practice are now using //myLink// for structured online delivery as well as asynchronous communication that encourages learning through the principles of social constructivism.
 * Breakout Session 3.2 MENZIES**
 * **E-learning without a budget - Hunter New England Health-** //Sandra Evans, Sandie Turner,Donna Brown, Craig Smith//

Want to know where technology and e-learning is heading? This session will discuss edited highlights from the recent Australian - New Zealand Horizon report on the future of educational technologies.
 * Breakout Session 3.3 MENZIES**
 * ** E-Learning...What's on the Horizon? - //Michael Coghlan// **

A short presentation describing the use of technology to link geographically dispersed groups of students. The subject matter, around the management of Country Rugby League clubs has been chosen as an area that engages these groups of young people. It is designed to provide a context to gain skills that could support future employment in the local community. The Cotton Online Skills Audit is a joint project between the Australian Cotton Industry, and NSW DPI (Tocal College). This project trialled a model of an online skills audit for farmers and farm managers linked to the industry's Best Management Practice Accreditation system. This project provided opportunities for participants from both organisations to explore and trial a range of emerging technology and social networking to deliver cross - cultural training in a number of locations across NSW. The tools aimed to integrate e-learning into work practices and learning in the ACE sector and the SES.
 * Breakout Session 3.4 - MENZIES**
 * ** 2009 Innovation Project showcases Team 035, Team 021, Team 040 **
 * Team 035 Country Rugby League**
 * Team 021 Tocal College**
 * Team 040 SES & ACE**

//**AT CLIFTONS**// **//computer rooms 200 George St - 5 Minutes walk from The Menzies//** > In this workshop, we'll cover the basic skills of Second Life, including: setting up your avatar, basic movement and navigation, communication tools, searching. We'll also visit some educational spaces in Second Life and explore some of the possibilities they offer for teaching and learning. PLEASE NOTE: To maximize your exploration time during the workshop, please register for a Second Life account BEFORE you attend this workshop. Instructions on how to do so are available here. (Limit: 15 participants)
 * Breakout Session 3.5 CLIFTONS** **computer rooms - this session only 15 participants - CR 1**
 * ** Be the Avatar! Create an avatar in Second Life and Explore spaces for teaching and learning in virtual worlds - //Jo Kay// **

As educators and managers we already possess enormous skills and knowledge. In our constantly changing world we are continuous learning new things whilst working on new projects and developing new ideas. Imagine if you could manage all of this information in such a way that you could use and re-purpose it to: - get a job/job promotion - help manage your professional/career development - get recognition or credit towards formal education and training - sharing your knowledge with others In this session participants will create their own personal online space using the VET SA E-portfolio website (http://eportfolio.vetsa.net.au) and will be able to continue to utilise this space as their own professional e-portfolio.
 * Breakout Session 3.6 CLIFTONS - CR 2**
 * **Creating Your Own E-portfolio - //Allison Miller -//**

=DAY 2= =Session 1 : 10:30 - 11:30= The Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS) oversees the training and accreditation of all occupational divers in Australia and New Zealand. This presentation will give an insight into how ADAS has used e-learning as a way of enhancing face-to-face training. Rapid Response is an innovative partnership between The Parramatta College and Slalom Canoeing coaches in NSW This presentation will provide an overview of how this project supported front line coaches and key officials to develop the skills and resources to support both aspiring and seasoned coaches through e-learning and explored options for Collaborative Video use. This project provided AIM with an opportunity to extend their current assessment support process by developing a collaborative online assessment model, designed to engage learners who are undertaking work-based assessment with AIM.
 * Breakout Session 1.1 MENZIES**
 * ** 2009 Innovation Project showcases - //Teams 17,52, 61// **
 * Team 17 ADAS Diving into E-learning**
 * Team 52 Rapid Response**
 * Team 61: Australian Institute of Management**

Most organisations have dabbled with e-learning content development with varying degrees of success. A significant contributor to success is the ability to engage the learner. This workshop session will showcase the latest trends in instructional design and arm you with a range of ideas to make your content enjoyable and effective
 * Breakout Session 1.2 MENZIES**
 * **Content Development - Emerging trends in instructional design -** //Duy Huynh, Managing Director, Beyondedge//

This team have worked together to create an innovative yet flexible method for isolated learners enrolled in the Diploma of Organic Farming to study and learn. The model e-farm is designed to help learners develop an organic farming management plan, the main step in accrediting a farm business as organic. A moodle session for experienced users wanting to know more.You will see how to create a Learning -centred design for a learning sequence that considers the learning process and the learner. Vicki will show you the advantage of the pedagogical philosophy behind the design of Moodle.
 * Breakout Session 1.3 MENZIES**
 * **Organic e farm - Project team 020- //Rebecca Chettleburg//**
 * **Putting the Moodle vision into practice - //Vicki Marchant//**

Living and working in the knowledge era means people expect to use technology when they are learning in the same way they use it in their everyday lives. Australian education and training organisations are realising the key benefits of offering flexible learning opportunities. These influences have given rise to a growing interest in the use of electronic portfolios (e-portfolios). E-portfolios are learner centred and learner managed systems which support lifelong and life-wide learning and encourage personalised learning experiences. By enabling learners to dynamically create up-to-the-minute records of their work history, achievements, training and life experiences, e-portfolios provide new and exciting ways of re-engaging and retaining learners. The ability to capture evidence of skills and experience through mobile devices (such as mobile phones, digital cameras and point of view devices), offers an improved opportunity for RPL (recognition of prior learning) and workplace assessment, which helps to fast track apprenticeships and traineeships.
 * Breakout Session 1.4 MENZIES**
 * **Using e-portfolios to support flexible learning options - //Allison MIller//**

This presentation will demonstrate what an e-portfolio is and how e-portfolios are being used in the VET sector to support learners to move easily between education, training and employment. This is very timely as Australia moves towards a broader tertiary sector which encompasses both VET and higher education

//**AT CLIFTONS**// **//computer rooms 200 George St - 5 Minutes walk from The Menzies//** How barriers to e-learning at NSW OSR were successfully addressed and new processes for an e-portfolio based RPL process is being introduced. The project has been part of the driver that has increased the current training capability of OSR from 20 concurrent learners to more than 1000 by making e-learning available to the desktop for remote staff. In this workshop you will explore how to record and edit audio using Audacity - free, open source, audio recording and editing software - and save files in MP3 format so they can be played on MP3 players or made available over the internet in a podcast. The session will cover: • Different audio file formats and their characteristics • Preparing a computer to record sound • Recording an audio lesson using audio recording and editing software • Basic editing of an audio file • Saving an audio file in MP3 format and set the file’s ID3 tags • Methods for distributing audio lessons as MP3 files • Identification of some educational applications and uses of audio lessons
 * Breakout Session 1.5 CLIFTONS - CR1**
 * ** From Twigs to Tubes - Project 070 - //Dorothy Waterhouse, Office of State Revenue// **
 * Breakout Session 1.6 CLIFTONS - CR 2**
 * ** Easy audio recording and editing with Audacity- //Stephan Ridgway// **

=Session 2 : 11:45 - 12:45=

**MENZIES BREAKOUT ROOMS** **Breakout Session 2.1**
Storytellers make any message more memorable by giving it structure and meaning, and e-learning designers can do the same by using basic storytelling techniques. Cathy will show that any type of e-learning can benefit from the methods that storytellers use to create anticipation and emotional engagement, and she'll also help you decide what approaches will work best for your projects. Soon you'll be using storytelling technques to make even dry technical material more engaging and easier to learn.
 * ** How Storytelling techniques can make any material more engaging - Workshop - //Cathy Moore, E-learning designer// **

A brief overview of the copyright issues that face managers when their organisation and teachers start working in the digital environment. - taking their copyright material online, hits, tips and practical advice to protect your intellectual property - Using other people's copyright material in the digital environment, rights and obligations - Reminder of education provisions - Using CC and FfE for organisational advantage - Digital resources management - IP policies
 * Breakout Session 2.2**
 * ** Copyright 'Right' for Managers - //Vanessa Tuckfield (repeat)// **

This session will introduce you to Adobe Presenter Adobe Presenter allows you to rapidly create Flash-based presentations and e-learning courses from PPT, add or edit audio, add multimedia, capture video, create quizzes and surveys, customize presentations, publish to Flash or PDF or Connect Server.
 * Breakout Session 2.3**
 * ** Adobe Presenter - // Adobe //**

To achieve successful e-learning implementations, a significant number of learning processes needs to be re-designed. Whilst often project management activities concentrate on the obvious questions (such as the choice of technology), many critical success factors are neglected. This session explores all aspects of the learning life cycle - including those beneath the surface.
 * Breakout Session 2.4**
 * **E-Learning Iceberg: The (in)visible reasons for success or failure -** //Stefanie Klein, Regional Director South East Asia - Pacific, IMC//

We live in the ‘internet age’, where information is plentiful. We also live in an era where we can easily create and share information through freely available websites to blog, live blog, micro-blog, mobile blog, as well as share photos, video, and bookmarks. So how can we keep up and manage all of this? The internet offers a number of very easy ways of collecting, sharing and managing our online information through the use of RSS/Atom, tags, hashtags and tag clouds, and this session will show you how. Participants will learn how to syndicate and share information using readily available technologies to access user/newly created knowledge/information.
 * Breakout Session 2.5**
 * ** “Aggregation” – social nuisance or effectively managing information? **** - //Allison Miller// **

//**AT CLIFTONS**// **//computer rooms 200 George St - 5 Minutes walk from The Menzies//**


 * Breakout Session 2.6**
 * ** Podcasting your audio - //Stephan Ridgway// **

This workshop introduces participants to podcast and vblog publishing and looks at the tools and techniques used in their creation and syndication. The session will cover: • a range of web services available to publish a podcast/vblog including podomatic, wordpress, blip.tv or viddler • how to publish a podcast/vblog episode using podomatic, Wordpress and blip.tv • the basics of podcasting and gain hands on experience in creating a podcast/vblog and posting an episode • RSS Subscription techniques including the one click iTunes method • how to register a podcast/vblog including using the iTunes library

Both Prezi and EtherPad are tipped to be hot contenders for 2010.
 * Breakout Session 2.7**
 * ** Lost in the ether with Prezi - ** //Gail Smith, NSW Innovations coordinator ,// //Australian Flexible Learning Framework//

This session will take a hands on approach to two newcomers in the e-learning arena. Prezi is a dynamic presentation tool that can be used freely over the web. It makes an interesting change to PowerPoint presentations. Come and learn the basics of this new and exciting presentation tool.

Would you like some tips to increase collaboration in your classroom on online learning environment? Using EtherPad and a common teaching strategy 'Jigsaw Learning' we will create one document collaboratively. If time allows, you too can share your ideas on promoting collaboration using web technologies.

This session is specifically designed for those who are experienced e-learning instructional designers. There will be short presentations from the Centre for Learning Innovation and also from Openlearn about their approach to instructional design in e-learning including some examples. Cathy Moore will then discuss the critical aspects of these approaches.
 * Additional Session**
 * **A master class with Cathy Moore** - //facilitated by Karen Harris, Assistant Director, Centre for Learning Innovation//