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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Andrew,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Agree with all of the items below but let me tell you what two
things have got me excited recently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>For over 2 years I have been wanting to find an easy way to
create interactive multimedia learning/assessment activities such as flash type
quizzes that would not be self standing but would hook into a CMS like Moodle.
This would require SCORM compliance. I did manage to do it “manually”
by writing my own flash program and converting it to SCORM and uploading to
Moodle. But then I discovered FUSE ( not the Department’s one ) from RM
technologies that allows an easy to use interface to create the most amazing
quizzes, learning activities but wait there is more..... it is ADAPTIVE.
That means you can sequence questions/tasks and based on the student result
send them off into a range of different pathways. Eg. Can you do (x+2) (x -3 )
? No, then we send you down a path where you practice 3 ( x -1 ), 2 (a+2) etc. and
then come back and pick up from the original question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Interactive digital mobile technologies. Use of mobile phones to
access learning content ( read today’s Green Guide where the mobile phone
is predicted to replace cash as the payment option in the near future ) ,
download vodcasts and podcasts and do assessment . As well as that tools such
as Active Expression to allow all students to participate to an IWB
presentation/question/quiz or the emulator that runs on a laptop for about $20
per license. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> The secret is not the gizmo but the access it gives to
real learning , content and assessment anytime anywhere. Where this is in
a multimedia context it is a natural for the students. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> There is more such as augmented reality, aural learning ,
brain compatible classrooms, self paced and directed student learning and the
list goes on. There was even a session I attended at a
conference recently on neural networks where a brain scanning device is placed
on the head monitoring the alpha, beta, delta and theta waves during class so
that learning is measured by brain activity rather than a test which does
nothing to evaluate what prior knowledge the student had or what actual
learning took place during class. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Good luck and let’s keep this discussion going.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Speak soon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Kevork Krozian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Edulists Creator Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>www.edulists.com.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>tel: 0419 356 034<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Shortell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 21 October 2010 10:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> elearning Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [elearning] Innovation and the next big thing(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi All<br>
<br>
First the Questions (then the explanations)<br>
<br>
1. What, in your opinion, is going to be the next big thing(s) in
eLearning??<br>
<br>
so far I have <br>
First person experience “games” where students get to learn as they
search through a game about say Science<br>
<br>
IT must become ubiquitous – about as intrusive as a biro is in the
ordinary course of learning (not teaching but learning)<br>
<br>
iPads – literacy numeracy apps esp for years p – 8<br>
connectivity, portable, easy to
use, “cool”,<br>
<br>
Student teacher today showed me his ipod touch as a remote to his laptop to an
iwb where he could move around the room and do a maths build up demo on
whiteboard. Students with own ipod touch could join in and participate<br>
<br>
Actual uses of podcasts and vodcasts of lessons for students who are away /
ill/ unable to attend for some reasons..<br>
<br>
Getting students to create podcasts /vod to teach other students<br>
<br>
eBooks – literacy, student stories, family stories; as a medium to
display and distribute student writing<br>
<br>
Mapping student competencies and then devising lessons that are delivered
electronically an are individualised and self paced ( I feel that this
one would need a lot of contributors.. But we do have that through these lists)<br>
<br>
<br>
2. What is innovative in eLearning? (All of eLearning is , so
what is especially innovative?)<br>
<br>
...........<br>
Reponses can be off list or on. (off list to <a
href="shortell@get2me.net">shortell@get2me.net</a>)<br>
<br>
<br>
Reasons: <br>
<br>
There is a nice eLearning job going locally in a less than two year old
government school.. After the tour the Prin said he was interested in
innovative people and ideas. After discussion (at home and work) I am looking
for the “killer idea”. I will happily acknowledge others as the
sources and if I get the job will continue to acknowledge all sources because
it is the community that succeeds.<br>
<br>
I have been off the lists for about 18 months due to personal probs some of
which are now solved and have been replaced with more difficult ones! However
things are looking up. An ongoing job would be good.<br>
<br>
I intend that all of these ideas be shared because there might be something
that will spark others into enhancing student learning experiences.<br>
<br>
<br>
Andrew Shortell<br>
Wallan SC <br>
<br>
(does that help to figure out which job?) * <b>grin *</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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