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Hot Topic Conversation Audio Podcast
Date: 3 Feb 2010
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Presenters: Stephan Ridgway, Paulis Cheung Workforce Development Unit & Rose Grozdanic, National Coordinator E-learning Innovations
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Recently the 2010 Australian Flexible Learning Framework announced it’s 2010 funding to support e-Learning & innovation nationally.
An overview of this funding is outlined in the Flex News website @
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/framework-gets-green-light-2010
The most common funding for sections to support E-Learning is the NSW E-Learning Innovations program.
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/nsw-innovations-team
The Workforce Development Unit will be supporting the development and submission of application in 2010.
Within NSW applicants may apply for funding ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 for E-learning Innovations projects which fall under 2 categories :-
Workforce Development will be conducting an online information session programmed as part of the online Hot Topic Conversations sessions next week on the Wed. 3 feb. 1:00pm. As well as a f2f application writing workshop on the 10 feb.
Key dates for the project proposal process are listed below and on the myLearning wiki.
Key Dates:
28 January – 10 February – Consider your project, project team and partnership for your application for the E-Learning Innovations projects (essential).
3 February – Attend Sydney Institute Hot Topic conversation to understand the process and criteria (essential)
10 February – (2hr) Application Writing Workshop DG.40 or at St George D2.16 at 9.30 – 11.30 or 1 – 3 pm.
Prior to this session, ensure you consult with your Line Manager and/or College management regarding priorities. At this workshop a draft application will be developed.
11 – 19 February – Further advice can be sought from the Workforce Development Unit in relation to your application.
12 February - 2:30-4:00 pm – Online AFLF Information Session (optional)
16 February 10:00 am F2F AFLF Information Session ( (Level 4, 1 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst) (optional)
22 February (Monday) Submissions emailed to Workforce Development Unit for the approval of the Review Committee.
26 February (Friday) Endorsement by Institute Director.
2 March (Tuesday) Applications to the AFLF Close
More information can be found on the myLearning wiki page @
http://wiki.tafensw.edu.au/sydney/mylearning/index.php/2010_NSW_E-learning_Innovations_Projects
Or contact Stephan Ridgway or Paulis Cheung at the Workforce Development Unit.
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The annual NSW Framework elEarning conference is underway in Sydney.
For thos not able to make the conference you can participate online in numerous ways including
Tags are key words used to classify online content and increase searchability. Our conference tag is elearning09 : please use this for all related media located and created in relation to the event
We will be using Cover IT Live to enable those present and those listening to the audio stream to converse via text chat.
You can either chat via Twitter (The hashtag #elearning09 is fed into Cover It Live) or chat direct into the Cover It Live chat box.
Keynote and plenary sessions held in the Sydney Room will be live broadcast via Adobe Connect throughout the conference.
To access the live audio click on the following link http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/nswframework
What you need :-
One option is to minimise the window and engage in the chat conversation on the live blog
The eLearning09 keynotes and panel will be recorded and podcast on Talking VTE when edited.
Thank you to Stephan Ridgway for once again taking charge of this.
The podcasts for eLearning08 can still be found at http://talkingvte.blogspot.com/search/label/elearning08 if you missed out.
Photos from the day will be displayed here.
Our conference tag this year is elearning09 – please use this with your images in FlickR.
Synopsis
This session will cover the development and embedding of the TAFE NSW Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) framework. It will outline the underpinning vision behind the framework and the range of elearning technologies.
Presenter: Diana Khabbaz, Director, Learning Technologies, Knowledge & Library Services
Date: 2 Dec 2009
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Google has recently announced a new feature a new feature in it’s Youtube service which automatically generates video captions from a speech to text recognition process. To date the fully automated captioning process has only been enabled for a limited number of channels, including UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCLA, Duke,UCTV, Columbia, PBS, National Geographic.
In the interim, regular users can use another new feature called auto-timing, which lets you upload the transcription of a video and while the youtube audio to text conversion process generates it’s own transcription and matches it again your provided text to generate the captions. The captions and time codes can be downloaded as a *sbv file which is basically your uploaded transcription file with the time codes added.
This is a great tool for educators who need to have captions on videos to provide accessibility options for students.
As you can see from the video above, the results are very impressive.
Synopsis
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Date: 11 Nov 2009
Presenters: Elizabeth Mitchell, (Assistant Director, Equity); Nicola Pegum (Program Manager, Equity) and Fran Cane (Director, Promotions & Communications)
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Looks like the social media guru’s @ Ultimo Library have been hard at work producing this cool video for youtube which has been published on the TAFE NSW – Sydney Institute youtube channel. Great work guy’s you get it :> libraries in SI have been leading the way in adopting and embedding technology in the way we do our business this is yet another example. And a final plug for the all the hard work and energy by the Knowledge Management & Marketing and Communications unit teams who set-up and run the youtube channel, always something new to engage our customers there when I scan my subscriptions.
Murder under the Microscope 2010
Get set for another eco-mystery game!
Sites2See: The Green Office and Green Skills
More on The Green Office Sites2See
More on Green Skills Sites2See
Environment Units
BSBSUS201A Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
BSBSUS301A Implement environmentally sustainable work practices
BSBSUS501A Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
Green Skills research Spotlight
This Spotlight from Education and Training Information Service (ETIS) features Green skills – Green collar workforce. Contains links to papers and other work done by Dusseldorp Skills Forum.
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Last month Gail Watt & myself had the opportunity to attend and present at the inaugural E-portfolios Showcase 09 conference held in Melbourne 16 October 2009. Organised by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework the showcase was attended by more than 140 teachers, trainers, managers and ICT professionals looking to learn from some of the most highly regarded e-portfolio researchers and leaders.
Gail Watt & I presented to a break out session on the progress of our nationally AFLF eportfolio project titled Hair E-portfolio were we outlined the trial of Mahara for skills recognition in the Hair Dressing Section, Ultimo college.
All of the main presenters and 3 of the break out sessions have been podcast on the Talking VTE podcast.
Five of the main presentations were streamed live using Elluminate and the recordings can be accessed here.
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