Learning Technology Mentors Program
Resource Scope and Development
Resources:
This is an intial list of resources which mentors should find useful. It is by no means complete or prescriptive and you are all encouraged to find and share resources of your own. I'll be working on this page to further refine, update, categorise and review the resources and I'd love to get feedback and comments from as many people as possible. I have also included links to research material and VET websites.
(Those marked with an * will require you to log on to the Det Portal.)
General Sites
Current Research: Articles, Publications and Websites
| Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board (VETAB) | BVET Annual Report 2007 | Talking VTE |
| RPL Network Online | Guardian e-Learning Pages | VOCED Research Database |
| "Watch and Learn" Lia Timson, SMH 7 January | ICVET e-Zine | NCVER Publications (National Council of Vocational Education Research) |
| Personalised Learning (BVET Report) | Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA) | NCVER Website (National Council of Vocational Education Research) |
| Did You Know? (NCVER) - A Guide to Vocational Education and Training in Australia | Training.com.au | Training Packages at Work |
| John Mitchell's Blog (National VTE Issues) | | |
Wireless
| How Wi-Fi Works (How Stuff Works) | Setting up a Home Wireless Network | Wi-Fi Detector Shirt |
| FON | | |
Mobile Learning
| MOBIlearn project website | Commoncraft: Twitter | Ploggle |
| Moblog UK | Mlogs | Textamerica |
| What is a Moblog? | | |
Adobe Connect
| All Things Connected | Adobe Connect (from TOL2 ANT) | |
Adobe Presenter & Captivate
| Learning & Innovation Program* |
Web 2.0 Technologies
Mashups
| Webmashup | Wikipedia Article on Mashups | SMH Mashup (example) |
| Netvibes | Programmable Web | |
Podcasting/Vodcasting
| iLounge | Podomatic | Voicethread |
| Levellator (great little tool for editing podcasts) | Jing | Blip TV |
| Voicethread: Google Results (contains numerous links to educational uses) | Toondoo | Flickrvision |
| Camera Glasses: What you see is what you get... | CaptureCamPro | BBC Podcast Directory |
| ABC Podcasts | Windows XP Movie Maker | ABC Videocasts |
| Ourmedia | Dvolver | Bubbleshare |
| "I podcast, therefore I am" Roulla Yiacoumi, SMH October 15, 2007 | | |
Conferencing
| Bridgit | Quicktopic | Quicktopic: Google Results |
Wikis and Blogs
| Wikispaces Tutorial/Help | Wikis in Plain English (Commoncraft) | Edublogs; |
| Edublogs Video Tutorials | Boing Boing | Sydney Institute Blogs |
| BBC Blog Network | Education Blog List | Top 100 Education Blogs |
| RSS in Plain English (Commoncraft) | Livejournal | Digg |
| Slideshare | RSS, Netvibes, Google Reader (useful Blog by Alex Miller) | Randwiki (Randwick College's Wiki - for students) |
| Mediawiki Help (from My Learning) | Case Study: moving from email to wikis at work (podcast), Luis Suarez and Jon Mell, Grow your wiki | |
"Low Threshold" Applications
| Chinswing | Mebeam | Evoca |
| Talkshoe | Teachertube | Tokox |
| Teaching Learning and Technology Group | Merlot | c4lpt |
Resource Development Kits
| Resource Dev Kits* (link back to My Learning page) |
e-Beam & Interactive Whiteboards
| e-Beam | e-Beam (Luidia) | e-Beam Website for Education |
Software
| Microsoft at Work (contains Help, Training and Templates for Office 2007) | Microsoft Publisher (2007): Tutorials | |
| DET Work at Home Software* (enables purchase of Office 2007 Enterprise Edition for home use by TAFE Employees - huge saving on retail price) | Basecamp (free Project management tool) | Tucows (the most famous free software download site..) |
Learning Management Systems
| | Sakai Project Website |
| Sydney Institute e-Learning Moodle | Moodle Videos |
| Moodle Homepage | |
Assessment
| Rubistar (online tool for designing Assessment Instruments) | |
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