e-Facilitator: 2012

Monday, July 23, 2012

Mac keyboard

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Fwd: System outage for maintenance

From: "Davey, Alex" <alex.davey@det.nsw.edu.au>
Date: 28 June 2012 10:44:43 AM AEST
To: "@RI All Users (TAFE)" <RITallUsers@tafensw.edu.au>
Cc: "@RI Information Management Services (IMS) - DEC" <~RIInformationManagementServicesIMS-DEC@det.nsw.edu.au>
Subject: System outage for maintenance

Hi all,

There will be a complete shutdown of all networked computing services on Monday 2^nd July from 7:00am until 8:00am. This is required for urgent system maintenance.

All services (email, all web-based applications such as Moodle and Equella, and network login) will be unavailable during this period.

We apologise for this interruption to services however it is required to mitigate against the unstable system issues experienced a few weeks back.

Alex Davey
Manager Computer Operations
Information Management Services
Department of Education & Communities Riverina Region|TAFE Riverina

ph 02 69381439 mobile 0409 220758
alex.davey@det.nsw.edu.au

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Monday, June 4, 2012

Scanner

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Scanning textbook pages

Friday, May 18, 2012

Great summary from an online conference I am following

https://www.coursesites.com/bbcswebdav/pid-339492-dt-announcement-rid-7509685_1/courses/bonkopen2012/Week1_TEC-VARIETY/Week%201%20Discussion%20Summary_050112.docx

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Tut session

Camera modes and settings

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Monday, May 7, 2012

Whiteboard notes 07052012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Whiteboard notes 29/3/2012

WB notes 29/3/2012

Monday, March 26, 2012

Mon 26/3/2012 whiteboard notes

e-facilitator - Social media for case studies.pptx

Friday, March 23, 2012

Rob Hopkins on TED.com

Check out this amazing TED Talk:

Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil
http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_hopkins_transition_to_a_world_without_oil.html

Sent from TED iPad app
http://itunes.com/apps/tedconferences/ted

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

M +61 412 962 739 P +61 2 6938 1290 F +61 2 6938 1240 www.rit.tafensw.edu.au
Teaching Wiki :http://georgeholt.riverinainstitute.wikispaces.net/
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Project idea

Whiteboard list 23-3-2012

Monday, March 19, 2012

Moodle2 poster

http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/AMoodle2ToolGuideforTeachers.pdf

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Ultrabook roundup

I found this article from SMH that you might be interested in:

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/-1umk2.html

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

How do it yourself (DIY) PD works – What are you working on? | 21st Century Collaborative

http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com/2010/12/how-do-it-yourself-dyi-pd-works-what-are-you-working-on/

Teach.com – a resource for new and aspiring educators | 21st Century Collaborative

http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com/2012/01/teach-com-a-resource-for-new-and-aspiring-educators/

Monday, March 12, 2012

Whiteboard 12/3/2012

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Google the global superpower

I found this article from SMH that you might be interested in:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/-1ue39.html

Social media has the power to misinform but it can also provide tools to save lives

I found this article from SMH that you might be interested in:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/-1upwu.html

Friday, March 9, 2012

A personal learning network

Interesting read

Just started this book. Looks interesting.

Get Kony: 50 million join the hunt

I found this article from SMH that you might be interested in:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/-1upsn.html

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Notes from 8/3/12

Monday, March 5, 2012

Diagnostic feedback

Hardware and software

Problems?

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Project 14: Social media for Emergency Management | Government 2.0 Taskforce

http://gov2.net.au/projects/project-14/

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

idisaster 2.0

http://idisaster.wordpress.com/#!/page/1

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

Friday, March 2, 2012

TeachTheCloud

http://www.teachthecloud.com/

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Spam, spam, spam - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/spam2c-spam2c-spam/3828934

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

Google new privacy policy - Law Report - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/google-new-privacy-policy/3856668

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

Social media and privacy - Law Report - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/social-media-and-privacy/3857894

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

Tech review with Peter Marks: NBN and Google's new privacy policy - Breakfast - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/2012-03-01/3861738

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Fwd: C4LPT blog

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From: Workforce Collaboration <jane.a.hart@gmail.com>
Date: 24 February 2012 10:25:29 AM AEDT
To: Gholt2@optusnet.com.au
Subject: C4LPT blog

Workforce Collaboration

C4LPT blog

From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:20 AM PST

Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that I've changed this blog's title from "Learning in the Social Workplace" to "Workforce Collaboration" Why? Well, to try and avoid the "learning" word or at least the term "social learning"! Let me explain.

Despite the fact that numerous studies have shown that most workplace learning takes place outside training - the term "learning" is for many people still synonymous with training. They simply don't realize (or value the fact) they are learning (ie acquiring new knowledge and skills) every day in everything they do – because they have been conditioned to believe that learning only happens in a classroom or an online course – that involves studying or memorization – and when a teacher is involved.

As social tools have emerged and are being used by individuals to address their own learning and performance problems (outside training), I thought these old perceptions might change, but unfortunately the term "social learning" is now being used to refer to the use of "social media for training" – despite the fact that "social learning" is something that happens all the time – with or without social media tools – and in fact takes place far more outside training than within it!

Of course, I think training has a role to play in the workplace, but I just think that helping people learn with and from one another, in the workflow, as they do their jobs is much more relevant nowadays. So, it's clear to me now that the term "social learning" is not the best way to describe this, as the "learning" word brings with it so many pre-conceived notions that it is all about "training".

And I just I don't believe that this can be done using the same traditional ways of training, which are planned and organised by learning professionals, created by instructional designers, and managed by training and LMS administrators. Those ways are just not appropriate to deal with the type of "social learning" that takes place naturally and continuously in the workplace, since it often happens unintentionally, even unconsciously, when working with others as part of doing a job. And to be quite honest, it's not the learning per se that is important, it's what happens as a result of that learning – the change in performance – that is far more important.

So, since people learn from one another as a consequence of working together, rather than focusing exclusively on the learning, I think it is about helping them work collaboratively and enabling learning to take place as part of that process. There is then no need to isolate the "learning" to try and track it, its effectiveness can be measured in terms of the changes in job, team and business performance that take place. And all this happens due to good working relationships, as well as from practice, from shared experiences, and from all sorts of other interactions that lead to rich collaborative experiences.

As I have written about earlier, helping people to work collaboratively involves modeling behaviours – since acquiring these new workplace collaboration skills is an ongoing, organic, dynamic, adaptive process – not training events. What is more, all this is achieved by the use of social and collaboration intranets and work platforms that power the actual work – not in separate learning systems and tools that are intended for the traditional training marketplace.

So it is for this reason that from now on I am going to be talking in terms of "workforce collaboration" rather than "social learning" – because, for me at least, that term implies a symbiotic relationship between collaborative working and collaborative learning.

In my own consultancy practices I offer workforce collaboration services to a range of businesses – both large and small. I often work with L&D departments who see that offering these new services will help to transform their own department from one that focuses on training to one that supports the business more widely. But I also work in organisations that either don't have a Training/L&D department, or do have one that wants to remain fixed on providing (mainly compliance and regulatory) training, and has no interest in supporting workforce collaboration. I therefore bring something quite different to the table than a consultant who just helps them add "social" into their training.

For larger, international clients, I work with the Internet Time Alliance as the Senior Director of Collaboration (where workforce collaboration is an integral part of our working smarter services). What is more, as all 5 of us have worked and learned collaboratively for many years, we can demonstrate its value in our professional practice, and as a result offer an immense range of knowledge and skills between us, that our clients can benefit from.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

diigo help

diigo help

Sent from Diigo Browser - a Chrome-style browser for iPad

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus

Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

M +61 412 962 739 P +61 2 6938 1290 F +61 2 6938 1240 www.rit.tafensw.edu.au

Teaching Wiki :http://georgeholt.riverinainstitute.wikispaces.net/

Yum! Trout and prawns for dinner.

Thank you hospitality department. :-)

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Connecting to the 21st Century Student | Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edutopia.org%2Fsynching-ikid?gname=diigoineducation

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Fwd: Getting teachers on board the iPad Express

http://mgleeson.edublogs.org/2012/01/28/getting-teachers-on-board-the-ipad-express/

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

M +61 412 962 739 P +61 2 6938 1290 F +61 2 6938 1240 www.rit.tafensw.edu.au
Teaching Wiki :http://georgeholt.riverinainstitute.wikispaces.net/

Fwd: Timeline: Classroom technology from papyrus to iPads - The Globe and Mail | Diigo

Timeline: Classroom technology from papyrus to iPads - The Globe and Mail | Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Feducation%2Fprimary-to-secondary%2Ftimeline-classroom-technology-from-papyrus-to-ipads%2Farticle2246181%2F%3Ffrom%3D2307909?gname=diigoineducation

Regards

George Holt

Head of Department Information Communication Technology(ICT)

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Wagga Wagga Campus
Cnr Macleay and Coleman Streets, PO Box 2231, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

M +61 412 962 739 P +61 2 6938 1290 F +61 2 6938 1240 www.rit.tafensw.edu.au
Teaching Wiki :http://georgeholt.riverinainstitute.wikispaces.net/