link to website This is a three page summary from Jay Cross about informal learning, accompanied by a great poster (finally worked out how to do ’tile’ printing after a few discussions with the printer). Everyone I’ve shown it to so far has given it rave…

link to website “Different Voices, Different Spaces is a collection of resources that features a ‘good practice’ model applied to voice technologies in teaching and learning within a range of adult education and vocational training settings. This collection…

Last week we played host to Terry Marler and Jean Tilleyshort of Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. On Friday we asked our visitors to present a lunchtime forum for our staff and we were treated to a overview of Otago Polytechnic and the VET system in New…

link to website From the IT Training Doctor, “The story illustrates the difference between traditional training and ROLF training (constructivist-based, reality focused). The training happens to be “soft skills” - if you can call defence against the undead a…

link to pdf From K Boan, via James Farmer, comes this handout on Blogging in Wordpress, using the edublogs.org / learnerblogs.org services.

link to website from Dave Warlick : “Rather than getting their content exclusively from a packaged information product, designed to make learning slick and easy, students are asked to visit a variety of information sources, that, hopefully, do not agree on…

link to website from Kirk Montgomery, a list of sites that offer icons issued under a mix of Creative Commons (CC) license, General Public License (GPL), and the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Some of the workshops I run are about showing participants a range of tools that they may later, sometimes much later, implement. To formalise the offer of coaching and follow-up, how about giving them a ‘voucher’ for coaching - after a hands on session on…

link to website This website has been developed by and includes lots of short and useful PD resources on the following topics:

link to website from Alex Havalais about a uni course that incorporated blogging as a learning activity: “I asked students to reflect about what they had learned over the course of the semester, and though I didn’t ask about blogging specifically, many of…

link to website “After 41 years in the auto body industry, 27 of these as a teacher at the Institute of TAFE Tasmania, Denis Crowden decided it was time to pick up the tools again and undertake a Return to Industry placement at Elite Crash Repairs in…