Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Emerging technologies on post-secondary education in Australia and New Zealand

Here is the third edition of the The Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand.

This report looks at emerging technologies and the effects they will have on teaching and learning over the next 5 years - well worth a look.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Free, online Global Education Conference

Here's an opportunity to attend a free, online conference that starts tomorrow.

All information can be found here: The 2010 Global Education Conference. Elluminate is the conferencing platform.

Topics include sustainability, connectivism, project-based learning, Moodle and many, many more.

See you there!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Two great Elluminate sessions for those of you who work with students online

Here are two Elluminate sessions that will support you as you move into online teaching.

Presentation: Cultural Competency in the online environment.
Speaker: Kate Timms-Dean
Recording: http://elluminate.tekotago.ac.nz/play_recording.html?recordingId=1260253889796_1289426318023


Presentation: Driving change into an on line society via sustainable practices
Speaker: Nicola Bould
Recording: http://elluminate.tekotago.ac.nz/play_recording.html?recordingId=1260253889796_1289339946762

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

How to use VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a wonderful tool for collaborative discussion which makes a "sexy" change for discussion boards and email groups. Here is a video that shows you how it works courtesy of Kim McLean.


http://screenr.com/GdZ