Workshop: NANCY WHITE

Leader:
Nancy White

NB: this workshop runs 1pm-4:30pm. You cannot combine this workshop with any other.

Stewarding Technology for Communities

Do you use technology to support groups and communities? Are you a leader or community facilitator who is tasked with picking and using these tools? Come explore useful practices to pick, set up and use those technologies. Work hands on to assess what your community needs and explore your options. Work in small groups to visit existing communities, test tools and finish with a plan for your ongoing work. This workshop is grounded on the work Nancy has done with Etienne Wenger and John Smith as part of their new book "Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities." It is best suited for people who are leaders, facilitators or technology supporters for existing or planned groups, communities or networks. You will work with your community's needs and issues. Participants will be given selected chapters from the book.

Workshop 1:

Leader:
Carole McCulloch

Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)

Learn how to manage your online spaces! Learn how to tame those rampant runaway communications! Create a quiet space for yourself - a haven where you have all of your tools, networks and projects in the one place.
Build a Personal Learning Network!

In this workshop you will see how easy it is to create your own Network space and discuss the issues of portability of our PLNs. A demonstration of some of Coach Carole's favourite teaching multimedia toys and gadgets will also feature in this workshop.

Workshop 2:

Leader:
The LT2009 Program Committee

First Timers

This is a FREE workshop for those who are new to the LT2009 conference (or have been confused in the past!). We'll explain all of the online tools we use to stay in contact with each other and the outside world during the conference. You'll learn about Twitter, live blogging, Nings and any other fascinating tools we find to use this year. If you have a laptop, iPhone, PDA or any type of portable device, bring it along and you can set up your own accounts to participate in the online dialogue during and after the conference. If you don't have a portable device - don't worry you'll learn all about these online tools & how to set them up when you return home.

Workshop 3:

Leader:
Joyce Seitzinger

Introduction to Moodle

This workshop will introduce you to Moodle and how you can use it for online learning.

Workshop 4:

Leader:
Liddy Neville

Participants as Multimedia Online Experts from Scratch

Participants will see how Scratch, a free comprehensive programmable multi-media environment, uses social networking to support users as they build projects about what is of concern to them. Scratch is not just a tool but a community, an environment, that was designed to ensure users would :

• have fun
• inadvertently learn basic good computer science principles
• develop their creativity as a systematic skill
• collaborate with others by sharing ideas, code, help and product
• evaluations
• be linked to a 'Scratch board' to drive robots etc and to take
• input from the real world
• be linked to other sources of info on the Web - eg take in weather
• data to use it.

Workshop 5:

Leader:
Lynn McAllister & Kim Hauville

ePortfolios

This workshop will involve whole group discussion, small group discussion and sharing and personal reflection activities. We will introduce attendees to the concept of ePortfolio as process and pedagogy. They will engage in the ePortfolio process using scaffolding resources and frameworks which support both educators and students in their use of ePortfolios. Each attendee will develop an "experience" typical of the type of record collected in an ePortfolio. The activities are independent of any particular ePortfolio tool so the workshop is not limited by the application used by the attendees.

Workshop 6:

Leader:
Joyce Seitzinger

Engaging Activities for Moodle

In Moodle it is very easy to set up learning activities for you and your students. A forum, a wiki or a chat room is only one click in the drop-down menu away. Often however, setting it up is one thing, getting students to participate is more difficult. This session will provide you with some insights into the dynamics of an online course or course activity, suggest ideas for motivating & challenging learning activities that involve forums and wikis (and if time allows others) and take you through the steps of creating & writing your own learning activities to wow your students.

Workshop 7:

Leader:
Roger Edmonds & Dr Olivia Clarke

Explore The Le@rning Federation's digital curriculum resources using Scootle.

With all schools, and the TAFE and university sectors across Australia, now having the option to access The Le@rning Federation's digital curriculum resources, this workshop is designed as a hands-on opportunity to learn about and explore the more than 9000 items using TLF's purpose-built repository, Scootle (www.scootle.edu.au). Regardless of how you might normally access the content at your institution, for this workshop, all participants will use a common Scootle guest log in to enable a common experience of the Scootle environment and for effective collaboration and discussion.

Workshop 8:

Leader:
Carole McCulloch

Coach Carole's Top Tools

Join Carole on a journey into The Power Of You Online! Explore the top tools in her travel kit - tools that will get you on your way to powerful teaching practices online.

• Collaboration power with Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar
• Communication power with Learn Central and Elluminate Live V room
• Blended delivery power with Wetpaint wiki and Moodle