Leigh Blackall Opening presentation to Learnscope Showcase

to Learnscope Showcase Day,Tasmania. Dec 5

EPIC
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volving Personalised Information Construct

One way street many years ago where information came to you eg TV, newspaper.
T
hen two way channels became available, however you needed to be an expert to publish a webpage or pay someone else to do it.
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ecently, whole suite of tools to DIY are all there for 'normal' people to use.
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C
an't afford to keep investing huge amounts of money into developing learning resources when there are cheaper ways of doing things. Rather t ... read more

Leigh Blackall Morning session

(a placeholder for the morning session once my Palm's Docs to Go starts talking nicely to me again)

Leigh Blackall Afternoon Workshop for Learnscope Showcase Day

Social networking tools workshop

Screencasting http://screencasting.blogspot.com/

Uses webbased services in preference to software requiring installation as they gives more flexibility about how and where it can be used.

Session started with a brief intro to blogs - different parts of the screen. He uses blog to support learning eg with voice recordings for the odd occasion people don't make it to class, or when we have a guestspeaker.

"I've yet to meet a student who is ferociously self directed with o ... read more