link to website Page of Digital Storytelling Resources prepared for a workshop at MCLI

link to website Denham Grey writes: “My thoughts around learning have been profoundly altered by reading Wenger, Brown & Duguid and von Krogh and focus on collective workplace practices. Have come to appreciate the role, value and importance of social…

link to website “Images Canada — the gateway to images of Canadian events, people, places and things! Search the collections of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada. Type a keyword in the search box, select the…

This report by Roger Harris, Michele Simons, Berwyn Clayton is available online from NCVER. Reading this report, many of the challenges felt familiar to comments I have heard in the VET sector. The challenges foreseen by VET practitioners who were…

link to website As someone who has worked in virtual teams, some tools to do it better are always welcome. Dave Pollard’s article outlines different types of collaboration in the world of work, as well as a matrix outlining the advantages of various styles…

link to website James Farmer discusses the alternatives to large systems for recording lectures. This comes from a Higher Ed background where the lecture is a common instructional method, but the issues have implications for the use of audio in all sectors.…

link to website Via James Farmer, a link to “(My) 7 guidelines for effective corporate e Learning” by Anol Bhattacharya. The first being: 1. The business world is not about learning, it’s about doing business.

From Steve Denning’s website at http://www.stevedenning.com I downloaded the first chapter of an upcoming book The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling ( pdf file ). Having recently been in planning meetings and an initital meeting of a Community of Practice at…

link to website in this article from the NorthWest Regional Educational Laboratory (US), comes a summary about skills that self directed learners which are: student motivation, metacognition, self-efficacy, self-regulation, locus of control, and goal…

link to website From Steve Brooks at edugadget.com: “podcasting tools are quickly evolving What:Podcasting tools are evolving quickly and it may be time to stop panicking and start embracing it. I wrote about podcasting 42 days ago and basically said the…

link to website Talsico makes a software product which helps generate ‘picture process maps’. Material is represented in flowchart, step by step (text) and photo means. Icons and colour are used for common elements between process maps. The final output is a…

link to website From Jakob Nielsen “Lower-Literacy Users Summary: Lower-literacy users exhibit very different reading behaviors than higher-literacy users: they plow text rather than scan it, and they miss page elements due to a narrower field of view. We’ve…

link to website from George Siemens “Informal learning is too important leave to chance. But why don’t we have theories that provide guidelines (I imagine “steps 1, 2, and 3″ approaches would be a bit at odds with informal learning) to designing in these…

link to website From the site: What’s a PodGuide?. “A PodGuide is a very simple thing. It’s the combination of a map (PDF) of a certain place and a series of audio tracks (mp3) which you can download for your iPod. Think of an audio tour in a museum, but not…

link to website S5 From an initial play with the tool, this looks very useful. You create a single html file and through the use of DIV tags as many slides as are needed are created. You can also tag text/images as ‘handout’ which means that they will only…

link to website “SWiSHvideo lets you convert your video files into streaming Flash files. Now you can easily display your videos on the web complete with play controls and playback” Also includes SwishMax for interactive flash, Swish pix for Flash based…

Skills at Work is a Australian Commonwealth Government evaluation of New Apprenticeships. Summary Report (pdf) Full Report (pdf) The summary report included the following findings: The number of new apprentices has increased since 1998 when the scheme was…

link to pdf (~80 pages) TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Research paper by Kathryn Moyle Department of Education and Children's Services South Australia from the Introduction… “The aim of this paper is to contribute to the shared…

incorporated subversion »link to website James Farmer brings together a whole range of tools on incsub on Multi User Weblogging

A Quick Look at Macromedia Captivate A Quick Look at Macromedia Captivate By Paul Clothier brief intro to the capability of the software

link to website Learning Lab UK has been set up to provide a centre of excellence to support all those involved in the design, development and use of learning technologies. tagline: where technology enables knowledge

Audacity Tutorials * http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials * http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/documentation * http://www.transom.org/tools/editing_mixing/200404.audacity.html * http://audacityteam.org/wiki/ Also of interest: *…

link to website includes link to mp3 of students talking about what their experience of eportfolios and several other resources.

link to website Educating the Net Generation A New EDUCAUSE e-Book Celtic Knot The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they…