Week1

Session 1 Elluminate session live recording []

by Michael - Sunday, 24 October 2010, 10:23 PM || Early in the week Stephan posted some videos about the nature of teaching and learning in the 21st century: [] [] [] Lesley also found: //LMS: Looking to the Future// [] Hennie found them inspiring: "I found these to be inspiring and has given me the will to go on, i want to be a 21st c teacher (it all looks sooooo exciting) so much to learn but then the learning continues on both sides of the fence. If at any time i feel overwhelmed or wondering why??? i will refer back to these videos thanks. We need to grow and not get set in old ways (classroom teaching) lets expand our profiles and open up the doors to a wider audience, which is what i am discovering this is all about...................**change and be challenged**//.// //(Michael and Stephan both really liked this change and be challenged phrase!)//  Janine also made the following interesting observation:  Our young people these days are born "critical thinkers". They are critical from the moment they demand their first feed and they continue to be critical and questioning,they are not bricks in the wall, unless it is squashed out of them. We as teachers, need to be able to face that critical demand and answer it. I say it myself at times I know "I want to be a good teacher" but really what we should be saying is "I want my students to learn" there is a difference. Below are some of the comments that reflect your collective thoughts on LORN, YouTube, and Flickr. (Though you were encouraged to also look at TeacherTube most people chose to confine their comments to YT.) **LORN** //Jenny:// noticed that some of the material is a bit out of date (I was looking for computing related topics, and some of the material is referring to very old versions of Windows and Office). Stephan mentioned that LORN's license means you are free to modify and update these resources. //Toni:// has great resources that could be used as revision and/or assessment for our Dental Assisting students //Kate:// I was quite surprised and excited to see ...content and information that ...came directly from some of the units I am involved with from our training package. ...may save me valuable time on resource development and planning //Hennie:// I did an infection Control quiz, it provided me with some more information about how quizzes could be constructed //Deborah// : I have been encouraging my workgroup to explore existing resources rather thanreinventing them without consideration for learning design and benchmarking. For this reason, I chose to investigate the LORN repository and to follow the instructions to download and unzip files......I found the extent of resources amazing and found myself exploring leadership, e-learning design and html sites **YOUTUBE** //Jenny:// Youtube has anamazing range of videos which I need to have a good look at which may be useful in future. ...takes time....) because there is no "contents list" for a video to see if it has anything of relevance before you view it. //Andrew:// amazed atthe extent of videos relating directly to the topics I teach in Painting...it would be easy to use them in the classroom as a lot of our old teaching videos are on cassette and are now poor quality & outdated.  //Kathryn:// found an excellent video on OHS involving a chef spilling hot oil on herself - very graphic, but an excellent way to get students attention & also bring home the importance of what can often be a boring subject  //Kate:// I have previously used some fantastic medical animations such as "heart attack" clip in my anatomy classes  //Seema:// has used YTvideos for use in teaching Hindi  //Lesley:// I thought I would investigate YouTube looking for short videos to add to the Plastics Moodle site - found a few interesting ones that could be used in regards to explaining the Plastics Injection Moulding Process and Polymeric Materials **FLICKR** //Sharon:// I can see the benefits of Flickr for students who wish to do Photostory assessments. They can save extra photos for future evidence in relevant modules. Some of our student struggle with literacy, so Flickr appears to give them flexibility and opportunity to submit assessments with a difference. **Using the Annotation Tool** //Vivian:// When Sharon mentioned assessment using photos I thought that perhaps a student could annotate, comment on certain aspects in an image. An example not for assessment is [] where I commented on all the birds nesting in my garden. One of my favourites is from a friend of mine who does beautiful mosaics... she comments on where the pieces came from [] **Assessment** //Vivian:// **Hospitality** - a photograph of a finished dish - notes on certain aspects of the dish re presentation, ingredients,cooking procedure etc **Horticulture** - labelling of plant species and animal species in an ecosystem... **Art** - commenting on certain features of a painting that they had created. **Language** take a photo of a scene then annotate in language **Literacy** - describing words... //Michael// added the following resource on Teaching with Flickr - http://teachingwithflickr.wikispaces.com/ Thank you everyone for your contributions this week. There were several valuable discussions and a lot of great resources shared. //Footnote:// Janine reminded us of the excellent documentary that aired on SBS last week, THE VIRTUAL REVOLUTION, and shared the link where it can be watched on the Net - @http://player.sbs.com.au/programs ||
 * SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS ON YOUTUBE, FLICKR, AND LORN
 * Judging from everyones comments it would seem that all 3 of these tools will be of use to people on the course, but some of you preferred one or the other tool depending on your teaching/training context. This is to be expected of course, and is exactly the kind of outcome we hope that you 19ll all get from this course 13that you will find resources or tools that you can integrate into your practice.
 * Embedding YouTube Videos (posted by Stephan) - **[]
 * Alternatives to YouTube (if YT is blocked); posted by Stephan: **[]