This week’s topic: Social media –  identity and privacy
What are the things we need to be careful about when using social media in TAFE? There are many ways in which we can use Facebook, Twitter etc in our teaching to really enhance learning but we still need to be careful. This session will explore how teachers and Institutes generally have developed guidelines and protocols to safeguard the identity and privacy of both themselves and their students and how teachers are interpreting them.

How do I attend?
On Thursday at 12 Noon, point your web browser at this online meeting room address:

http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/tafeconnects

Log in with your DEC username and password – or just enter as a Guest.

Does mobile learning have the potential to drive innovation in education and training? What are the characteristics of mobile learning that teachers need to know to design appropriately for mobile learning contexts? Join us for a discussion with Thom Cochrane, Academic Advisor and Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology at Auckland University, who argues rather than specialist technology skills, teachers need to understand the mobility of learners and how learning takes place beyond the classroom. Thom will share his research and learning from having implemented 35 mobile learning projects, exploring new learning spaces and ways of accessing information, communicating and collaborating in the real world.

How do I attend?

On Thursday at 12 Noon, point your web browser at this online meeting room address:

http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/tafeconnects <http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/tafeconnects>  

Log in with your DEC username and password – or just enter as a Guest.

Start the discussion now

Have you tried mobile learning? What did you do? Were students more active in their learning? How did it go? Post your experiences on the eCommunities forum at: <http://ecommunities.tafensw.edu.au/mod/forum/view.php?id=612>  at any time before or after the session.

You can also browse the mobile learning resources <http://ecommunities.tafensw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=80&topic=1>  on eCommunities.

To catch up on previous sessions

Past recordings are on the TAFE Connects website <http://ecommunities.tafensw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=99> .

Google has announced that its social networking site Google+ is now public and open to anyone (no invitation required). So Google+ can now be used as a tool to support teaching and learning. Key Features of the SNS

Circles: allows you to categories your followers (for example: friends, family, colleagues, students, classes) you can then share information with certain ‘circles’.

• This is good for teachers as they can create a class circle and share information: media, links, documents only with their students. Student will not be able to see information shared with other circles.
• Students can create study group circles to support each other’s learning

Hangouts:  allows up to 10 people to video chat with one another.  You can invite specific people to join a Hangout with you, although it’s worth noting that anyone who joins can in turn share the Hangout’s URL and invite others. As being in a Hangout appears in all the participants’ Streams, it does mean that these are public gatherings. Google’s Hangout technology recognizes who is speaking during a session and that person’s image takes the “big screen” while other participants appear in small tiles below. Hangouts is a way for other Google+ users to connect in real time using their phone’s front-facing camera.

• Guest Speaker
• Teacher access to student in remote locations
• Meetings
• Group discussion or  project collaboration

Mobile App: Google+ has a mobile app that can be downloaded to a smartphone or tablet.  Great for mobile learners.  However at the moment the Hangouts feature is only available on Android-based smartphones with the same functionality expected soon on the iPhone.

• ability to learn any time, anywhere

+1: +1 is Google’s version of the Facebook’s ‘Like’ button, the +1 is stored in your profile page , you can show your +1′s tab publicly or choose to hide it.  +1 can  be shared with specific circles. they also become a factor into Google’s search algorithm.

• Teachers can good resources, websites, links with students
• Students can also contribute great resources to class circles
• A place to store and manage your favourite sites

useful resource: 21 ways to use google+ to support learning

Join us for the latest online TAFE Connects session this Thursday at 12 noon.  It’s free and it is for any TAFE staff or teachers interested in elearning and teaching with technology. See the attached Term 3 Program for details

Topic: Social Media in TAFE

Date: 12pm 1st September, 2011

Location: http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/tafeconnects

Overview:

The rise of social media on the web is one of the major themes in communication over the last few years.  Join us this week to get some great ideas for how social media can be used to make an impact in TAFE training.

Some of the social media services we will explore include using Facebook with students, using microblogging services like Twitter and Maang and sharing and accessing resources through cloud services like Flickr and YouTube.

Can I catch up on previous sessions?

Recordings and resources are now available through our eCommunities website – follow the link on the front page to TAFE Connects: http://ecommunities.tafensw.edu.au/

Flickr image by mylearning

Interestingly, the engaged 21stC citizen is learning more form PLNs (personal/proffesionlal learning networks) than traditional forms of instruction. According to Francis Kneebone, this is due to a quest for life long learning and demonstrable and relevant employability skills. Eportfolios and platforms such as Linkedin are high profile tools for PLNs.

Intro Moodle. Francis maintains that it is necessary to build social media into Moodle so that learners become natives of it They are able to go out into the big wide world (read industry) as in-touch and capable.

Chad Outten continues the theme. He advocates the use of forums (asynchronous) and chats (synchronous) as well as discussions boards and calendars. He says they are popular and engaging. More so he says students find them empowering. It gives them the freedom to be creative and have control over their own learning. They are able to be ‘constructive’ by sharing and asking for help. In addition, they can develop and build learning through others.

Why Moodle though? it’s a one stop shop. All the above features and tools are available under one login. It”s safe, secure and able to be moderated. That said, Moodle is a LMS – anything posted or contributed is able to be used for grading etc:

Students from Sydney Institute have become part of a world-wide dancing phenomenon!   The Flash Mob movement has become popular around the globe and Sydney Institute has now caught the craze!

Ultimo TAFE events management students held their own flash mob event at Central Station, much to the surprise of passing patrons.

The event was a great success, with over 100 dancers making their move to help raise money for Westmead Medical Research Foundation & ‘The Move Movement’.

Thank you to all involved – especially Urban Dance Centre and choreographer Nikki Britton.  The Youtube clip was filmed by Randwick TAFE screen and media students, produced and edited by Janusz Dareck.

cc licensed flickr photo by vickel_n: http://flickr.com/photos/vickel_n/4048763336/

Synopsis

Topic: Hot Topic Conversation: Using Social Media within TAFE NSW

Date:2 June 2010

Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Presenters: Stephan Ridgway, Workforce Development & Tessa Bachmayer, Knowledge Management

This session will look at recently updated DET NSW code of Conduct (27 January 2010) and the TAFE NSW – Sydney Institute guidelines surrounding the use of social media and social networking services as a staff member.
Topics include:

• What is a social media & social networking web service ?
• DET NSW – Code of Conduct
• Sydney Institute “Wikis, Blogs, Learning Management Systems & other Social Media – Guidelines”
• Managing the boundaries between your private and work identities online
• Engaging in networked conversations as an employee

myLearning session page

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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.

image by Gary Hayes 2008

The  Laboratory for Advanced Media Production LAMO at Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) run a program of free seminars the last wednesday of each month in Sydney in main Theatre at AFTRS

This months seminar will be of interest to educators with a passion for networked learning and how the current range of social software tools can be used to facilitation collaborative learning networks.

Presented by Australia’s foremost Social Network strategist Laurel Papworth (silkcharm) will give a clear overview of the best tools to collaborate from a creative, marketing and social angle. She will show the how the previous audience are now TV channel producers, publishers, news agencies, film makers, music producers and how professionals can re-engage by becoming learning the ‘tricks of the community’. Laurel will also cover the basics of how generic social media tools like Ning, UStream and Blogger can be used to quickly create your own networks.

• Introduction by Gary Hayes – AFTRS LAMP
• Speakers:  Laurel Papworth‚ Social Media Strategist & CEO World Communities
• others to be announced
• No need to register just turn up @ 6pm – 7pm  to the main Theatre at AFTRS, Sydney (directions)
• for more information see the LAMP blog post

The 2008 edublogs awards have become somewhat of an annual event for educators working with social networking tools to support their teaching and learning. Hosted by the educational blogging service edublogs it has since 2004 been an opportunity for online communities to recognise the work of innovative educators by voting for a “best of” across a series of categories. While having it’s roots in the educational use of blogging, the award categories have expanded to include a wide array of network learning platforms such as podcasts, vblogs, wikis, social networking platforms etc.

It is also a fabulous way to see  how educators around the world are utilising contemporary networked technologies to support their teaching and learning. For those just starting out it’s a great way to pick up some ideas and approaches used by educators.

The polls close this weekend culminating in a online awards ceremony held in Second Life on the islands of jokaydia

If your not into Second Life, don’t worry the ceremony is being syndicated in a range of ways on the web, see the post on the jokaydia blog for more information.

Will be a great event and a good opportunity to mix and meet fellow educators with a passion for learning though online  communities.

image by sridgway

Synopsis

Jenny Williams from Ideagarden presentation titled “Technologies: blurring the line between marketing and educational content” to the TAFE NSW – Sydney executive meeting: Using Technologies to do Business, Ultimo college, 1 July 2008

Links

Session PowerPoint Presentation

Ideagarden

synopsis

Podcast of a 1 day Digital Marketing Workshop delivered by Jenny Williams of Ideagarden on the 6 June 2008 @ Ultimo.

images from the session

synopsis

Podcast of a 1 day Digital Marketing Workshop delivered by Jenny Williams of Ideagarden on the 6 June 2008 @ Ultimo.

images from the session

synopsis

Podcast of a 1 day Digital Marketing Workshop delivered by Jenny Williams of Ideagarden on the 6 June 2008 @ Ultimo.

images from the session

synopsis

Podcast of a 1 day Digital Marketing Workshop delivered by Jenny Williams of Ideagarden on the 6 June 2008 @ Ultimo.

images from the session