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=The Way of The 'e' - Complete = toc

**RTO**

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**[|J2S Solutions]**
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[|(managed by Business IT Training Specialists (BITTS) P/L)]
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**Contact**
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 * Katrina Sommers - katrina-at-bitts4learning.com.au || [[image:katrina_sommers.jpg width="122" height="88"]] ||

**Category**
Empowering Learners

**Client Target Group**
Work-based Trainees/Apprentices

Progress record of the project

 * Visualisations - || [|Many Eyes] ||

The key software that we have used successfully during this project and use in our final recommendations:
 * [[image:Elluminate.png caption="Virtual Classroom - online collaboration"]] || **[|Elluminate is a virtual classroom]**

We used this technology extensively in the project and have had a unanimously positive response to the benefits it offers.

We would like to thank Steven Rowe from Southern Cross University for allowing us to use his virtual classroom during this project. ||
 * [[image:vue.png caption="Visual Understanding Environment"]] || **[|VUE is mind mapping software]**

VUE was used throughout stages of the project to allow us to conceptualise what we wanted, where we were heading, how were going to get there, processes that worked and finally to create a large percentage of our final project output. The power of its visual representation is awesome! ||
 * [[image:Audacity.png caption="Audacity Open Source Audio Software"]] || **[|Audacity for everything audio]**

Audacity was chosen to create audio components of the learning materials we used in our trials. ||
 * [[image:Flash.png caption="Adobe Flash (aaah saviour of the universe?)"]] || **[|Flash multimedia objects]**

We were unsure at the beginning of our trials how much impact there would be on the format of movies that we created and so we elected to test 2 formats.

A hint at the start is that moodle ended up solving everything anyway, but flash is great stuff! ||
 * [[image:Quicktime.png caption="Apple Quicktime for multimedia"]] || **[|Quicktime mulimedia objects]**

The other format we experimented with was Quicktime movies.

Now in the context of what we were doing Katrina definitely preferred Quicktime however as development tools there is no real comparison between the two. ||
 * [[image:delicious.png caption="A very social way to bookmark indeed"]] || **[|Social Bookmarking with delicious]**

This is a distinct carry over from past projects and finally Katrina feels that she is developing a decent library of resources here.


 * TIP** try to think smart when you create your tags, but even more important go back every month or two and check things over - you may be surprised at how much better you can organise it all! ||

**Final report**

 * [|Bits4learning]**
 * Visit [|Snap Shot]**
 * eLearning08 slides - [[file:025 el08 slides.ppt]]**