Other's e-learing experiences

Peter Allen (Adelaide TAFE)
- reinforced "baby steps" for introducing e-learning.
- Email still a very valuable e-learning tool.
- Moodles - can have (alternatives):
* web pages for content (tripod)
* chat rooms (msn messenger)
* bulletin boards (quicktopic.com)
* wikis (seedwiki.com)
* quizmakers (surveymonkey.com)
- yahoo groups offer good platform
- blendedlearning.wikispaces.org website - excellent info on e-learning tools eg wikipedia, google scholar, gnomz cartoons commentary (www.gnomz.com), googlegroups (allows members to be added without them doing anything).

Kim Edgar (education.au)
- Has an article called "Kickstart to e-learning for small RTO's", which she'll pass onto Marlene for us to read.
- She introduced "Hot Potatoes" crosswork maker to other facilitators in her organisation and before she know it another facilitator was using it in class, and getting their IT students to make their own to demonstrate their knowledge of the "jargon", by producing the clues.
- overviews EdNAgroups (www.groups.edna.edu.au), which are free discussion forums for any educational group (see apply for a group & browse Edna groups). This website has a Cert IV in Business Admin discussion group, is a moodle, and is for the "facilitation and promotion of communication and collarboration for Australian educators".
- Marlene will advise of some some training being organised by Kim about the advantages for the EdnaGroup website.

Other Orange group sharing their Experiences/Terminology game
- Business SA has used a survey monkey investigating how much e-learning is happening in business
- tripod websites are good for linking other useful sites
- e-terminology game - terminology & definition on separate cards (each a different colour), randomly mixed - each person receives a term and a definition and has to find the buddy of each with the other group members.
- SCORM - scorm compliant - when e-learning objects can be used on any computer system/platform, computer compliant, works with everything

Making Small Changes brainstorming
- Discussed good "project" ideas for making small changes in our work environments related to e-learning.
- ideas for my own project:
* adding e-learning tools to the Cert IV/V in Bus Admin Janison Online, and/or
* Staff PD session on introducing an e-learning/e-business activity to other lecturers which they can implement into their courses - survey monkey? wikis (for strategic planning, group activities)? blogs? quizmakers? - Need a training session, good instructional notes for lecturers and their students, useful as homework exercises for students.

Karola Laventure (Leapfrog Training)
- Workcover has e-learning tools - able to get a Cert in OHS on line
- Bookmark into favourites useful websites as they are found
- prepare a report to staff to keep them informed of good ideas in e-learning
- do a lot of "risk/discovery" learning when experimenting online
- may need to consider "filters" for luid or explicit information available online.