Site Blocking and Web 2.0 in Schools

This great report explores the issues for teachers and learners around restricted access to emergin Web 2.0 technologies in Schools. SICTAS: Web 2.0 site blocking in schools. It's not just the students who are missing out, but the whole School community.

Big VET e's 2009

Cathy Moore who's hosts my fave blog of very-good elearning examples from around the world, was the keynote speaker at this years BigVETe's conference in Brisbane.

The 2 Day Conference held at the end of each year by the Federal Department, The Flexible Learning Framework, proved yet again to be a valuable time of networking with VET and elearning professionals and to discover new tools, practices and funding opportunities for developing and embedding elearning in your teaching programs.

neovet and V2Training demonstrated how new media can be embedded in wiki's, google waves, LMS's and other websites, not without it's problems as I'm sure you've experienced!. To find out about future funding and conferences, keep an eye here at neovet and at the Flexible Framework website.

Flow for student planning

http://flowchart.com/features/

This online application for realtime 'recordable' collaborative flow chart design looks fantastic. I can see this being used by students in group projects allowing for more flexibility in planning space and time.
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Google Doc Folders

Are your google docs out of control? If you already use folders in your google docs, then ignore this email.

I realised I’m up to 24 shared documents, including survey tools, student matrix and other project docs, and that is just for work! What a mess.

Solution = Folders (just like you sort your emails into outlook folders)

• Click on New, then select ‘Folder’.
  
  
• You can name and color code your folders, and then tick to select your documents you want to shift to a folder, then select the ‘move’ button to move them all into one folder.
  
  
• You can then easily find what you’re looking for now by selecting folders on the right hand side bar. (see color tabs above)

Hope this helps you sort out your ever expanding google doc list.