BBC RSS feeds

BBC - The Feed Factory - Home

"This site 'the Feed Factory' is an introduction to the RSS feeds that are available from bbc.co.uk. You can use the Feed Finder ... to find some of our recommended feeds from across the bbc.co.uk site. "

Examples of 'Social' Activities

Learning activities for educational social software
Authors are Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson
Based around an ELGG install, but could be easily transferred to other tools, this list of activities for students to complete has a wide range. This could be a good launching pad for teachers who are unsure of how to tackle this for the first time.

"The following activities were designed for use by self-paced (continuous enrolment) students working ... read more

Risk management resource

Up Front! Home for BSBCMN419A Manage projects
this may be useful for the prepare tenders resource project
Risk management is in the Content guide on pages 20-22 of http://www.oten.edu.au/flmtoolbox/toolbox_601/lo/2003_237_015/documents/2003_237_015_reading.doc

Refrigeration resource links

Useful Subject Sites
Compiled by Mitra Iraji of the LEARN Network of TAFE SA Libraries.
Useful Subject Sites for
Air conditioning and refrigeration
for students, teachers and professionals

Presented by the LEARN Network of TAFE South Australia Libraries

Reflection on the new TAA Cert 4

link to website
Interesting reflection from Michael Nelson about the way a resource for the new TAA Cert 4 is structured.
'sure our training packages talk about holistic assessment etc., but the framework of CBT has certainly directed the 'delivery' of learning on the book I'm reading (Learning Design - Participant Guide, from Pearson Education). I'd much rather get together with a bunch of other people interested in helping others learn and then work out what we think is importa ... read more

Feedbook - an alternative to textbooks

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from Dave Cormier comes the notion of the Feedbook

"The feedbook is a collection of feeds (including podcast, blogs and someday soon hopefully vlogs) contained in an open ended opml first seeded by a course instructor and added to (or pared down) according to student needs.
The feedbook is a collection of feeds (including podcast, blogs and someday soon hopefully vlogs) contained in an open ended opml first seeded by a course instructor ... read more

Use of screen capture

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interesting to read a teacher/lecturer's thoughts about creating and using video in the form of narrated screen capture, and what material would be best served by these methods.

Basic Computer Orientation

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from the BBC
"Computer Tutor is a resource for people who don't know how to use a keyboard, mouse or computer screen.
If you're a friend, family member or tutor helping someone learn, all you need to do is choose your connection speed and start the resource. That's it!
Computer Tutor presenter Amani is then on hand to take computer novices from start to finish
step-by-step.
Sit back and watch as Computer Tutor teaches all the skills t ... read more

Crocodile Clips

link to website

"Crocodile Physics is a simulator which lets teachers and students model physics experiments on-screen.

There are over 100 electrical components, with the basic ones available as pictures. Optical components include lenses, mirrors, prisms and screens. The powerful new force and motion parts let you investigate collisions, acceleration, velocity, energy & much more. You can also look at oscillations, SHM and hookes ... read more

Teaching Resources - FERL

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a resource bank from FERL in the UK which includes some interesting items. Arranged by subject areas.

Example of Powerpoint used to make a learning game

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from the FERL website
"A game that helps learners test their knowledge about bacteria and gives them practice with application of number."

Decision Making Skills

From a quick read some of these may prove useful for a resource development project I'm working on.

American Red Cross - Decision-Making Skills for Young People-- Health and Safety Tips

Make-Up Your Mind -- Improving Your Decision-Making Skills

... read more

Scaffolding, Dogging, Rigging, Hoists

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"CSO has been designed for people who are interested in learning more about dogging, rigging, scaffolding or hoist operation.

These are highly skilled areas of construction work, and require the individual to hold a certificate of competency from the appropriate licensing body in each state or territory.

The contents of CSO are based on four specific competency standards from the BCG30998 - Certificate III in General Construction (Materials Handling) in the General Construction Trai ... read more

Safetyline - WA

SafetyLine Institute: Home

The SafetyLine Institute is an online education and training facility established by WorkSafe Western Australia, a State government enforcement agency, to provide resources to assist individuals improve their knowledge of work safety, and increase workplace access to nationally accredited or endorsed, competency based, work safety training. - You can sign up and gain access to online. learning materials

Mentoring Resources

link to Job Aids For Everyone : A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Job and Task Aids

link to Mentoring in the Workplace

... read more

Ready for Work Online Courses

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from the UK
"Ready for Work has been designed for young people starting out and can help you make a successful transition from education into employment.

If you are in full-time education in the UK (or were within the last 12 months) and are planning to become an employee, the Ready for Work programme is for you.
registration required
Courses available:

* Ready to learn
* Thriving in diversity
* Showing respect at work
* Be ent ... read more

Career Planning Tool

link to website
From myfuture.edu.au comes a planning tool that "guides you through activities to help you explore your career. You will answer questions, explore career suggestions made by myfuture, select career favourites, clarify your career direction, and then, create an action plan to help you reach your career goals."

Registration is required to use the planning tool.

Engineering Learning Resources

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includes lots of graphics

ePortfolios

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Recommendation Technology

Kiwi Wiki: RMLTechFarOut
From Alan Levine
Recommending Technologies... What if Amazon Powered Our Educational Sites?

as part of a presentation called Rip.Mix.Burn, there is a mockup of what an online learning course intro might look like, using the same concepts as Amazon, - e.g. people who took this course also took etc

Learning Object Repository

Shared learning objects
from Mid-South Community College comes a publically accessible website with many learning objects.

Topic areas includeBusiness
Computer/Information Systems
English
Faculty Development
Fine Arts
History
Instructional Design
Math
Foreign Languages
Science
Social Sciences

Toolbox info

Can Toolboxes help you?

Can Toolboxes help you?
Are there any gaps in your training resources?
Are you introducing a new course?
Are you interested in widening your scope?
Do your students need IT skills?
Are you an enterprise needing materials to support an in-house training program?
Do you want to upgrade the quality of current training resources?
What training delivery scenarios can Toolboxes support?

Key Competencies/ Employability Skills

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"LINKup offers a proven, practical way to assess and improve your Key Competencies - otherwise known as Employability Skills or Generic Skills."

developed by Torrens Valley TAFE

MIT's Double-Secret Hidden Agenda

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From eLearn Magazine
By Lisa Currin

“Publicizing all of MIT’s course materials on the Web is only half our mission,” admits MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) program director Anne Margulies. “The other half is to do it in a way that enables others to follow in our footsteps. If we’re the only ones publishing all our course materials, we will have failed. Our ultimate goal is to start an open knowle ... read more

Validating Web Content

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Overview
The Internet has been praised as a medium that truly frees information, making it accessible to anyone, anywhere. Information that was previously confined to libraries and university research labs is now freely (usually) available on the Internet. Search vehicles like Google help students, teachers, and business people access a mind-boggling amount of information.
Yet, (as with every great concept) a significant threat exists to the fre ... read more

Searching the Internet

BrightPlanet™ — Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet

This tutorial is organized to proceed from the basics to more advanced topics. It is divided into two sections:

"Searching with Internet Provided Resources" and "Using a Powerful Desktop Resource: LexiBotTM". The first section has 12 parts containing 51 topics and describes the search services, available operators, and the extremely important information on h ... read more

Index of Learning Styles

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"The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. The instrument was developed by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman of North Carolina State University.

The ILS may be used at no cost for non-commercial purposes by individuals who wish to determine their own learning style p ... read more

Resources for Business

Flexible Learning Toolboxes - Preview by Toolbox Code

FNB30199 Certificate III in Financial Services

WRR10197 Certificate I in Retail Operations
WRR20197 Certificate II ... read more

Toolboxes - ATPL

Australian Training Products

Full list of toolboxes

Returning to Learning - BBC

BBC - BBCi Learning - Returning To Learning - Homepage

"Returning to learning can affect many areas of your life. You will be fitting your studies in around your daily routine and trying to budget for the cost of your studies. Don't panic, there is advice on how to manage both of these. There are also students who have been in your position. Hearing their stories will encourage you."
Sections on
Life
Money
Time

ANTA Toolboxes Help

Toolboxes

Louise Housden - Mon, 18 Aug 2003, 11:30

Thanks to the national Toolbox Champions and other clever critters out there using Toolboxes, I have been able to find a few good sites with information that should be helpful to anyone wanting to use a TB in their training.

Here are a couple you might like to check out:

Implementation help http:/ ... read more

Student Guide to Online Learning

Ready Set Go: A student guide to Online Learning.

A preparation course for students considering online learning for the first time. It steps them through the issues they need to consider, the skills they need to have and gives them the basic skills they need for online leaning.

Any TAFE or RTO that would like to provide their students with a link to the course within their online environment may freely do so.

Readiness for Online Learning

Home

Zane Berge's web site on which he has a great tool to ascertain "Student Readiness for Distance Learning" in the form of an online tutorial.