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News

Education Network Australia (edna) VET and ACE e-news
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/vet/vet_news/vet_enews
Read an issue of the newsletter
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Knowledge Tree
http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au
What is the message of the latest issue of this e-journal?
To subscribe to receive via email: http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/subscribe

Flex e-news
http://flexenews.flexiblelearning.net.au

Events
search edna's calendar for library related events [or for technology events]. Filter by location or find online events.
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/events/eventsearch/

People
Find your local e-learning co-ordinator http://pre2009.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/States_and_Territories

Find digital learning resources
Search the LORN Learning Object Repository Network: http://lorn.edu.au

Find e-learning tools, research and ideas
Browse Education Network Australia Topics: ICT http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/ict

Digital footprints
Check out this research paper and issues identified by Fox, Madden, Smith & Vitak, 2007
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Digital-Footprints.aspx
Use the search engine of your choice to check your own digital footprint "Firstname Surname" site:au

21st century Copyright

• Smartcopying: http://www.smartcopying.edu.au
  MCEETYA Copyright Advisory Group (CAG) provides copyright information sheets and resources for TAFE on Web 2.0
• Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org
  Creative Commons (cc) licensing allows greater freedom of use for online materials. Search for Creative Commons licensed material http://search.creativecommons.org
• flickrCC  http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net has built in editing options and attribution for Creative Commons licensed images
• Wikimedia projects use Creative Commons licences: http://wikimedia.org - check out a project you haven't used before.

Social bookmarking and communities
Click on MyBookmarks to save and share links to resources at: http://me.edu.au
If you use other social bookmarking services, eg Delicious www.delicious.com or Diigo www.diigo.com find the RSS feed for your bookmarks, copy the RSS link, and add it to your me.edu.au profile so we can all find them: My View - Edit profile - Feeds.

21st century learning resources
Upload and share images using Flickr  www.flickr.com
Search for photos on flickr that are released under the Creative Commons license.
Search, upload and share presentations using Slideshare www.slideshare.net
Search, upload and share videos using TeacherTube www.teachertube.com

Personal Learning Networks
Check out Twitter http://twitter.com: a microblogging service and Personal Learning Network
Edmodo www.edmodo.com provides a private microblogging platform for education

21st century Learning Environments
VET Teacher E-learning toolkit:
required functionality to support e-learning in Australian vocational education and training
Moodle: 2 minute moodles videos from Tomaz Lasic, WA http://www.vimeo.com/channels/44004
Get your own Moodle environment at edna Groups: http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/mod/resource/forumapplication.php

21st century learners
Vision of students today: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8
Video project created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills.

21st century teachers blogging as lifelong learners
Create a reflective blog post about what it means to be a 21st century learner. Click <Create blog> in me.edu.au or use an existing blog.

Tags: libraries alia vet
Posted at 08:02AM Oct 23, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Future libraries

Libby's blog post
What you said in terms of traditional library suppliers that 'all ordering can move online as far as I'm concerned' is what many people say about libraries.
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The social stuff of libraries
Janet's quote about libraries as collectors of social / organisational / agent records and of linking people.

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Discussions with SA educators and teacher librarians [via email/phone]

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ALIA Library Technician's conference workshop:
You can take the technician out of the library but you can't take the library out of the technician: what difference can technology make?

This workshop provides an overview of trends and possible futures for 21^st century library spaces, digital collection management and service delivery. You will work in teams to develop scenarios that look at the possible future role of the library technician in a technology-rich library environment.

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Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson's post 1.10.2009 What keeps us up at night

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Tags: libraries trends
Posted at 11:48PM Oct 05, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Libraries workshop

Handout
Click here to open electronic form of Web 2.0 in libraries handout. This will make it easier to follow links.

Presentation file
Click here to open Web 2.0 in libraries presentation. Save to your USB if you like.

Link to me.edu.au presentation

Participants gave a commitment to what they are going to do from this workshop

• Get Moodle back in our school - get in touch with Yvonne Murtagh
  
• Put the subject I teach onto Moodle and share the experience
• Organise a Moodle workshop
• Start a LLP Moodle and everyone use it
  
• Check out 2 minute moodles videos from Tomaz Lasic
  
• Join Moodle community
  
• Add twitter link on resources page, and promote its use as a search tool
• 1 minute video to expain each Web 2.0 resource
• Experiment with each web 2.0 resource

Tags: information literacy moode libraries web2tools
Posted at 02:58PM Aug 27, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[1]

Issues research

21st century issues in secondary school curriculum
A quick survey of South Australian secondary school teachers raised the following list of topics which they believe are not well covered in existing online (or print) resources at a level appropriate to or readily discoverable by students.
This is a challenge for those developing materials to support student research. While material such as statistics, newspaper articles, journals, television and radio interviews is available, the skills required to locate sources that represent the multiple viewpoints required are complex.

Note: these are topics set usually by teachers. It will be interesting to compare this to topics chosen by students undertaking the SACE Board Research Project in coming years.

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY
For most of these topics students are asked to investigate a combination of the following elements

•  overview of the issue
•  historical background
•  Australian context
•  case studies
•  legal aspects
•  ethical issues
•  social benefit/cost comparison
•  making informed choices

Seeking source material for the following curriculum topics...

SCIENCE and MEDICINE
 stem cell research
 IVF issues at various stages, eg pre-implantation
 organ transplantation
 gene technology

PERSONAL HEALTH
 nutrition, diet and disease
 lifestyle choices
 breastfeeding
 
TECHNOLOGY
communications technologies, particularly mobile

GEOGRAPHY
 water management issues
 coastal management
 climate change
 
SPORT
 law
 women in sport
 advertising in sport
 drugs in sport
 clothing
 history of popular sports: eg football, motor racing

FINANCIAL LITERACY
Planning and budgeting
Gambling

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
 religious/faith communities in Australia
 history and impact of religious orders in Australia
  - Jesuits, Josephites, Mercy sisters, Loreto, Christian Brothers
 people of faith and contribution to community
 ethics
 religious art
 sacred texts
 contemporary religious symbols and expressions
 Australian spirituality
 
ART
 Australian women artists: eg Tracy Moffatt, biographical information and their works
 photographers
 indigenous art

SOCIAL JUSTICE

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS 

ADOLESCENT ISSUES
 cars and learning to drive, hooning
 alcohol
 drug use
 homelessness

CAREERS
 future of work
 volunteering
 
AUSTRALIAN IDENTITY

Please add your own 'hard to find' contemporary Australian issues in the comments area below.

Tags: research project curriculum libraries
Posted at 10:22PM Aug 04, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Initiation

Stage 1 of the Information Search Process is Initiation.

What is the topic?

What do I already know about the topic?

Complete a brainstorm, chart or picture of what you know already.

bubbl.us
bubbl.us is a free online brainstorm tool. Login if you want to save your brainstorm.
You can embed this as an image in your blog or in a wiki and thus share it with others.

Tags: information literacy libraries ipshaa tl guided inquiry
Posted at 11:52PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Selection

Stage 2 of the Information Search Process is Selection.

• find some resources on the topic
• build background knowledge about the topic
• develop questions to guide further research
• scan reference collection and online sources
  

Wikipedia
Check references and external links

Wikipedia for schools
Hand-checked selection from Wikipedia, targeted at UK curriculum has about 5500 articles.
Search google: [term] site:schools-wikipedia.org

Tags: libraries guided inquiry ipshaa tl information literacy
Posted at 11:49PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Exploration

Stage 3 of the Information Search Process is Exploration.

This is where time is spent in gathering more information about the topic to further build background knowledge. This involves catalogue searching and use of search engines.

Finding an easy way to bookmark and tag interesting and relevant resources is helpful. Investigate social bookmarking services such as delicious, diigo or twine and how they can be used. For this workshop we will use social bookmarking in me.edu.au. 

Tags
Tags should be single words or very short phrases.
Check whether spaces are permitted in your social bookmarking service. If not, use under_scores to connect words, or WikiCase.

me.edu.au social bookmarking
Log in to your me.edu.au profile and keep it open in a separate window or tab as you search. When you find a relevant resource, copy the url and paste it into your share links box. Add tags and a title/description about why you chose it.

me.edu.au uses commas to separate tags so spaces are OK, but still not ideal as spaces can break urls.

Tags: guided inquiry information literacy tagging iphsaa tl libraries social bookmarking
Posted at 11:31PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Formulation

Stage 4 of the Information Search Process is Formulation.

Decide on the specific area of the topic to focus on and research it further.

Formulating essential questions is one of the hardest parts of the process. Is this worth researching? Asking the 'So What' question, and being convinced time spent on this focus issue is worthwhile will help.

[This is a placeholder: The subject of a future workshop]

Tags: information literacy ipshaa tl libraries guided inquiry
Posted at 11:19PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Collection

Stage 5 of the Information Search Process is Collection.

Now is the time to record my new knowledge in an appropriate format.

In terms of professional learning, I find creating a blog post works well as a way to outline my new knowledge. It is an easy way to include links to references and to ensure I give attribution as appropriate.

Even if the final format of the inquiry is a presentation slideshow or conference paper, I will probably post it here so I keep lots of my learning in one place, and in some kind of chronological order. It lets me tag the learning, and to share it with my professional learning community.

Tags: information literacy guided inquiry ipshaa tl libraries
Posted at 11:06PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Presentation

Stage 6 of the Information Search Process is Presentation.

Here the purpose is to share new knowledge with an audience.

Deciding which presentation format is most appropriate or best for the task will depend on the audience, the learning, the context and the type of feedback required.

If the presentation is in digital format then it has a much bigger potential audience. Posting audio, video, slides, photographs or online, or using a blog to post the presentation means peers can be invited to view the presentation and leave comments.

Tags: guided inquiry information literacy ipshaa tl libraries
Posted at 10:18PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]