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Hi everyone.

My assignment 2 components are all complete. Please feel free to peruse.

• Draft Plan
• Feedback
• Prototype
• Review (Blog version)

I just wanted to say a big thanks to Ted for running the subject and  to everyone who contributed so effectively throughout the semester. I enjoyed it immensely and learnt a great deal. Best of luck to everyone.

Kind regards

Ben

I wrote the following comment in the OET Subject Blog about Fran’s Assignment 1 Tutorial on Social Booking.

Comment

Hi Fran. I agree with Sue. Your tutorial was clearly presented and easy to understand and gave me more insight in to social bookmarking than I had before (I’d previously created a tag cloud using delicio.us and embedded it in my blog from the subject Flexible Learning Environments under the title My Delicio.us Tags, but that’s as far as I got with Social Bookmarking). I’ll be adding the articles you’ve included to my blog. Thanks
Well done.

Comments about my Assignment 1 Tutorial by Julian Parkin

Julian

Great tutorial Ben! I love this application. i can see it being used in a variety of subjects across all learning areas and ages; in Geography the work could…

My reply

Thanks Julian. I knew nothing about ExitReality before doing this tutorial. It definitely highlights the potential…

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Based on a discussion in the OET Subject Blog between Sue, Tim and Fran about role reversals in chat rooms, I thought I’d add the video that all parties referred to, and Fran included a link to, in my blog as well.

My Draft Plan is about Mashups – although not finished yet, I’d thought I’d embed the video that Ted included in Session Ten on the OET Outline. Enjoy

My Draft Plan is now complete: An Instructional Blog for Creating a Mashup

Julian Parkin has reviewed a range of free online Learning Management Systems on his blog. I’ve decided to add links to many of these under the Resource heading in my blog. Julian has provided a much more in depth explanation of each of these on his blog.

Some of the resources Julian has listed include, but are not exclusive to:

• Moodle (This is also referred to in the post: Moodle on Sue’s Blog, on my blog).
• Yahoo Groups
• BSCW
• Fle3 > Future Learning Environment
• Manhattan: Simple Smart
• ATutor
• LRN

I wanted to find a video about LMS’s on You Tube and found a video on Sloodle – a mash-up of Second Life and Moodle. Love to know your thoughts.

In addition, I’ve included an introduction to Second Life, narrated by a child with a ‘twiffic’ English accent. Enjoy.

As tutorials are uploaded to the Subject Wiki, I thought I’d continue to add to the extravaganza of links on this blog. You can find the tutorials under the heading, Assignment 1 Tutorials.

Available tutorials for Assignment 1 include:

• Camstudio Demonstration for OET – Asynchronous (Andrew)
• Getting your students to create a clay animation (claymation) to use in their blog or wiki (Tim)
• Learning Objects – A demonstration of the power and flexibilities of learning objects (Tay)
• Podcasting (Richard)
• You Tube (Brendan)
• Google Goodies (Magical Bill)
• Orange Music Mixer (Matt)
• Wordle (Bill D)
• ExitReality – The Entire Web in 3D (Me)
• Twitter (Ben G)
• Vodcasting a quick look at Elluminate and the use of Jing (Sue)
• Camtasia (Nigel)
• The differences between discussion boards, blogs and wikis (Dayle)
• Wink Screencasting (Scott)
• Social Bookmarking (Fran)
• Overview of the Deloitte Leadership Academy – Jacinta
• eBay – Julian
• GIS – Geographic Information Systems (Julian P)

A list of the tutorial topics can be found on the Subject Wiki

Sue, Matt and Bill are currently considering conducting assignment 2 on Moodle, the open-source LMS. You can find more information on Sue’s Blog in the post: What is Moodle?. I took an immediate interest in this entry because UCMS, where I work is revieweing Moodle as an alternative to our current LMS – and a lot less expensive.

Here is the ‘Moodle’ video on Sue’s Blog.

If you’re interested in trialling Google Chrome, the new browser by Google, check out Francene’s Blog. She has included a link to download the server and also an article in the Age regarding its glitches. I’ve added these to the Resource section of my blog.

I replied to a comment on the discussion board:  Session 5 what is the difference between LMS and a wiki Do we need to know how to make a webpage in online learning? led by Ted and Richard around the themes of wikis being more relevant than web design now. I arrived at the conclusion that as long as the desired learning outcome is arrived at, in my mind anyway, it didn’t really matter what strategies were used – what digital tools were employed; and that rather than determine which tools are more relvant or obsolete that it would make much more sense to ask a different set of questions about the best combination of approaches.

I tried to find a web design versus wiki You Tube video but didn’t have much luck. Instead I thought I’d add a simple video about Wetpaint, an open source wiki that I’ve employed at UCMS Academy for the last 4 months, and now has 50 members. If you are interested in having a look at what we’ve done, please leave your email address in the comments and I’ll invite you as a restricted member.