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 * GippsTAFE Online Facilitation Course**
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The purpose of this wiki is for us to build up a list of suitable online learning materials. Please select your favourite two or three online resources and add them to the wiki. For each include a title, the URL and a one line description of what the web site is about. If you put your name at the end we'll know who has posted which items. :)

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In the past I have used these 3 websites to teach guitar and drums to VCAL students (Applied learning) [|http://www.delicious.com] Stores all my URLS for lessons- Great for when moving around computers [|www.youtube.com] Guitar lesson videos and music [|www.] __Ultimate-Guitar.Com__ Online music and lessons

Paul Banks

Thanks Paul, would you be willing to share your direct link to your Delicious site? It sounds really useful!!! cheers Frankie

Here's some plain-speaking guides to English we use in Professional Writing and Editing ... [|Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style] - it's frightening how much I use this resource (I'm supposed to be a professional!) [|Ten Rules of Writing] - An article from the Guardian detailing tips from renown writers. [|George Orwell's classic article about politics and the English language] - I need this printed on a T shirt ... ;)

Scot Gardner

Ah thanks Scot, I'll have to mind my grammar for this course - grin. At least I now know where to go if I'm unsure of something. :) cheers Frankie

A fabulous resource is Apple's iTunes U. To access this you will need to go, via iTunes, to the iTunes Store. Enjoy the exploration.

As Paul has noted, Delicious is a fantastic resource. A trick I have found useful is to create a unique tag for each class. For example my 'Introduction to the New Internet' course has the tag 'TSC_NewInt' so I can give students the URL http://www.delicious.com/grahamtaylor/TSC_NewInt. This means I can tag new sites at any time and the class will always have access to my latest collection of bookmarks.

www.teachertube.com is very similar to YouTube and in fact shares many of the same resources. It has the advantage of being more focused on instruction and secondly is less likely to be blocked, particularly in the school sector.

Graham Taylor

Thanks Graham, yes having a specific tag for each course is really useful. I have to say we did debate with using a tag rather a wiki for this component of the course but decided that the wiki took priority! I'm not a huge itunes user but I'm interested in your mention of ItunesU. We'll be sharing useful tools later in the course and I'm hoping you'll mention it then. :) cheers Frankie

I am new to on-line delivery but have found the following two sites great for obtaining resources for my business online units.

[] LORN is for teachers and trainers, it is your gateway to online training resources - **discover, download** and **use** learning resources in your teaching and learning!

[] e Thanks for these sites, Lorn is familiar to me (and definitely useful) but catapult is new. Off now to explore what it offers. Thanks again. cheers, Frankie
 * Catapult**

I am new to on-line delivery but have found the following two sites great for obtaining resources for my business online units.

http://lorn.flexiblelearning.net.au/ LORN is for teachers and trainers, it is your gateway to online training resources - **discover, download** and **use** learning resources in your teaching and learning!

http://www.catapult-elearning.com/HTML/
 * Catapult e Learning** makes it fast and easy for training organisations to deliver their training online. They provide Vocational Education and Training (VET) training and assessment support resources and expertise to rapidly deploy highly effective training. These resources aren't free but they will present the resources with your branding for a seamless user experience.

Sharron Hebbard

Hi Sharron, I've reposted some information from the history. Please feel free to edit them as needed, cheers, Frankie

I am sooo new to this on-line delivery - it has taken me a while to find my feet. Have found the following free online resources

[|http://www.changingminds.org] Free resources on how to delegate, motivate, persuade, make decisions and become more assertive and manage a classroom. Also has links to team building games and quizzes

[|http://www.teachingtreasures.com.au] This website contains free teaching tools, online interactive activities, educational games, teaching and learning strategies

Lisa Di-Re

Thanks Lisa, I'm going to have lots of fun exploring your sites!

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This is the link to a website that my primary school aged children use. Used to make "online posters", similar to a blog but with fun interactive links. Joanne

Hi Joanne, funnily enough I had a phone call today from the Glogster group telling me more about their services. Great to know you are using it. :) cheers, Frankie

http://tv.adobe.com/

This is a great site for adobe stuff

Melinda

Tx Melinda - I didn't realise this site existed so thanks for the post. :) cheers, Frankie

This is a site that I use for anatomy and physiology activities []

Here is another one that people will probably be familiar with, it is helpful for communication, teamwork exercises and also some great icebreakers and activities

[] anne tierney

Thanks Anne, I do love that innerbody one - great fun exporing what we are made of! Cheers, Frankie

I agree that LORN, Businessballs and ITunesU are all great sites where I've found lots of great stuff for my classes. For music business stuff I use...

[|Australian Copyright Council]

[|The Music]

[|The Biz]

But for a flashy presentation have a play with

[|Prezi]

and finally to capture all those Youtubes for a Powerpoint presentation (in case you find yourself in a classroom without broadband or a stubborn firewall) try using

[|Keepvid] Just make sure you don't download the software. Go to the Youtube you want to use, select/ highlight the URL, copy and then paste in to the URL box on the Keepvid site and hit download.

Scott Adam

Thanks Scott, some beauties here. I had a play with Prezi not long ago and loved it. cheers, Frankie

Many of my students vote, but have trouble understanding why or how.

www.aec.gov.au is the website of the Australian Electoral Commission. The Voting tab has useful information, but the most useful part for my students was the Practise Voting section. None of them was able to cast a valid vote without several attempts.

www.peo.gov.au is fun and accurate. Go to Kidsview for a tour of Parliament House and other interactive activities. I found that, for my students, it's best to do this on the IWB. There's too much going on for them to cope individually.

Jacqueline Mulberry

Thanks Jacqueline and also for the tip about viewing via the IWB, cheers, Frankie

I created a new page to post my comment - completely by mistake (I thought I was adding to this page). Then I created a discussion post (again, thinking I was adding to this page). Finally, I have worked out how to do it - hooray!

Hi Nicholas, hope you don't mind but I've copied over the information that was on the other page and deleted it... so here is your original posting. cheers, Frankie

When I am teaching advertising copywriting I direct students to [|www.abc.net.au/tv/**gruentransfer**] to watch episodes of the Gruen Transfer.

I have also used the ehow.com site many times to explain quite a number of things - not necessarily related to writing.

Nicolas Brasch

So many cool resources!

Let me see ...

[] a bunch of free software that runs off a USB - OpenOffice, GIMP, Audacity and a whole bunch more. Good for students who have access to a computer, but can't afford software to work at home.

[] a website that lets you build a little "talking head" that you can put on a website or in an email message. I've used it to create "customers" for my students to deal with.

[] the limit is for 10 survey questions with a free account, but it's a nifty little survey tool.

Matt Paxton Ooooh yes, Matt. All goodies here. I used to run a Moodle version of portable apps and had forgotten how useful they can be. :) cheers Frankie

Some fantastic resources on this page!


 * I've been using Social Bookmarking tools for a while now, in particular [|Del.icio.us] and [|Diigo].**

Social Bookmarking tools allow you to share websites with specified communities. This can be really useful once you develop a list of contacts online who actively seek out interesting websites and share them.

Both have tool sets that attach on to all the major browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari) and are pretty easy to use. Often just looking at a cloud of website tags is a simple starting point.

If you're wondering which one to dive into they are remarkably similar, especially as the community isn't split one way or the other, as both allow you to share contacts.

Diigo has the cool ability to see annotations on individual web pages. //The best way to describe this is like getting a book from a library, and seeing that someone has left notes all through it, giving you insights you may not have thought of.//

- Jack Egan

Thanks Jack, if anyone has a sociall bookmarking account feel free to share it here - then we can network with each other via these sites. cheers, Frankie

A few gems for ESL

http://e-language.wikispaces.com/tesol-links This is the motherlode of English as a Second Language web resources. [|http://www.xtranormal.com/]A fun site that allows students to make their own animated conversations.    http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ The go to blog for high-end discussions on language.

Anthony Georgeff

Hi Anthony, I have retrieved these links from the history and reposted them here. If you'd like to make any changes please go ahead. Hope this helps, cheers, Frankie

A lot of great tools mentioned here already! Here are a few of my favs - Krystie


 * [|JING] ** - this free version of Camtasia Studio allows you to capture your screen and voice to create video tutorials and upload them to [|www.screencast.com] (a free video gallery site). Here's an example in which I've captured [|xtranormal animation, flickr pics and audio]and here's an example [|capturing prezi and audio].


 * [|VOICETHREAD]** - free tool to invite comments via audio, text, and drawings. [|Here's an example] of one in which we asked users to comment on their lifetyle when they were growing up.


 * [|TOONDOO]** - Free comic creation tool - probably more for younger students but TAFE students might find this fun also. Use it as an alternative to text based instructions or students may use it to create avatars for their LMS or online communities.

Hi Krystie, Ooooh yes, love them! I've used Voice Thread and Jing is good too - though I have Vista and so use the built in Snipping Tool. Thanks for sharing them, cheers, Frankie

If you do use Moodle
check out Joyce Seitzinger’s Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers -

http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2010/05/moodle-tool-guide-for-teachers/

Oooh, more goodies. this is a fabulous resource - check out the matrix. Tx Frankie