Comments for Blogo~Nile http://edunile.net/blog A river of thoughts and reflections.. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:24:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on How to implement technology in the Web 2.0 era? by Lynne Gibb http://edunile.net/blog/?p=38#comment-245 Lynne Gibb Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:20:22 +0000 http://edunile.net/blog/?p=38#comment-245 Hi, Found this blog through "one comment a day" so I will comment! I teach at a Community House in Melbourne, Australia. For the past few years I have been using wikis in a blended way to provide resources, collaborations etc to Certificate III and Diploma of Children's Services students. I try to get the students to access the class wiki at least once every couple of face-to-face sessions, to research information, make a comment or work on their own private wikis which are used for uploading assessments and reflective journalling etc. Diploma students also have a couple of units they can do completely online using the wiki. Everything is loaded onto it and they can access it at their leisure. In conjunction with the wikis, I use Elluminate and MSN messenger to communicate with students. (Can access Elluminate free through the Adult and Community Education network) It (the wiki) works really well and is an affordable option for our cash-strapped sector instead of using an expensive LMS. We are also beginning to use wikis for eportfolios and find it quite good but may move to using mahara for this if we can piggy-back off a TAFE college server. We also use podcasting, video, slideshare etc in conjunction with wikis. An example of audio use is that students record an interview with the Co-ordinator of their centre to discuss how OH&S is carried out in that centre etc. They then either comment verbally at the end of their interview and upload to their private wiki or upload the interview and make a written comment on it on the wiki itself. Works really well. One comment - all of our Diploma students are very computer-literate and enjoy using technology. If we get any that aren't, we provide other options for them as well as training them in technology skills. Cheers Lynne Hi,

Found this blog through “one comment a day” so I will comment! I teach at a Community House in Melbourne, Australia. For the past few years I have been using wikis in a blended way to provide resources, collaborations etc to Certificate III and Diploma of Children’s Services students. I try to get the students to access the class wiki at least once every couple of face-to-face sessions, to research information, make a comment or work on their own private wikis which are used for uploading assessments and reflective journalling etc. Diploma students also have a couple of units they can do completely online using the wiki. Everything is loaded onto it and they can access it at their leisure. In conjunction with the wikis, I use Elluminate and MSN messenger to communicate with students. (Can access Elluminate free through the Adult and Community Education network) It (the wiki) works really well and is an affordable option for our cash-strapped sector instead of using an expensive LMS. We are also beginning to use wikis for eportfolios and find it quite good but may move to using mahara for this if we can piggy-back off a TAFE college server.

We also use podcasting, video, slideshare etc in conjunction with wikis. An example of audio use is that students record an interview with the Co-ordinator of their centre to discuss how OH&S is carried out in that centre etc. They then either comment verbally at the end of their interview and upload to their private wiki or upload the interview and make a written comment on it on the wiki itself. Works really well. One comment - all of our Diploma students are very computer-literate and enjoy using technology. If we get any that aren’t, we provide other options for them as well as training them in technology skills.

Cheers
Lynne

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]]> Comment on Articles on Avatar Worlds and Nontraditional Learning by admin http://edunile.net/blog/?p=12#comment-2 admin Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:38:15 +0000 http://edunile.net/blog/?p=12#comment-2 As a response to that post, a colleague has kindly sent me this clarification about Claroline open source. Claroline looks good and they seem to have started developing something like Sloode but it seems on hold at the moment: SLClaroline, the bridging of Second Life and the Claroline Learning Management System, came about due to both a query on whether or not it could actually be done and a desire to create LMS-integrated tools in Second Life. Status of this project is currently best described as 'on hold'. Our hope is to eventually garner support from the Claroline Community and promote additional development of this particular SL-LMS solution. Many thanks again for the details. :) As a response to that post, a colleague has kindly sent me this clarification about Claroline open source.

Claroline looks good and they seem to have started developing something like Sloode but it seems on hold at the moment: SLClaroline, the bridging of Second Life and the Claroline Learning Management System, came about due to both a query on whether or not it could actually be done and a desire to create LMS-integrated tools in Second Life. Status of this project is currently best described as ‘on hold’. Our hope is to eventually garner support from the Claroline Community and promote additional development of this particular SL-LMS solution.

Many thanks again for the details. :)

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