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The following was originally published April 11, 2012 at http://connectcolleen.blogspot.com/2012/04/week-5-march-26th-2012.html So it's now Wednesday after the Easter break (fabulous Easter weather here in Mission beach by the way, which is a real plus for our beach community still recovering from last years Tropical cyclone Yasi). Thanks to Mary and Maria who both had a go at my Easter community quiz here on my blogger site, at least 2 people what will my next connecting strategy be:) I am back into some more iConnect assessments over the next fortnight and also gathering together some relevant ideas to use for the next DC-LP web conference scheduled for our next community web conference on 20th April between 12 - 1pm.

I am going to use a small team based activity and gather the participants into four teams. In these four teams they will research, develop and design a form of digital content. Whatever is designed by the group will then be presented to the learning community at the next 2 day residential workshop to be held on the 24/25 May 2012. The focus of the groups web quest and design will be on the copyright, accessibility standards and legislative requirements for digital content production in the TAFE Qld VET context. They will be challenged to produce a collaboratively designed and developed form of digital content that can be used amongst the group and their colleagues that summarises and provides some understanding of what these terms mean when designing digital content in the 21st century learning context. Participation by individuals in this activity is also to be used as part of the evidence required for the unit TAEDES503A

This team web quest will be launched at the April 20th web conference and will be driven by the participants as part of their leadership, research and digital content design capability. The key will be to ensure that the instructions provided by me and the rubric developed to assess the Digital content is instructive and collaborative. This will be key(?!) Online Virtual teams and group work provide interesting challenges for the facilitator so to support the teams in this project they will be teamed up with volunteer librarians based across the TAFE Queensland network, this should help in terms of research and allow the teams to function as a project team in this activity with assorted knowledge skills and abilities.

My research for this activity revolved around the following:

I have decided to use an assessment rubric from this site scroll down to the rubric entitled digital content publishing. We will use this as a starting point and a guide for teams to use as part of their digital content web quest activity. They will redesign and update this rubric based on their learning and we will then collaboratively redesign and enhance this rubric for the VET digital content leading practice cohort as an activity at the May 24-25th residential. Subsequent to this we will then distribute the draft rubric to relevant stakeholders for comment and enhancement as a Digital content rubric for all VET staff to access and use as they design and develop digital content in 2012. Other useful sites related to this topic will be linked via my delicious account > http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Traditional+and+Digital+Practice
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I have added and redesigned a few more pages on our DC-LP my.TAFE website so that we keep a focus on these key (C) terms and actions as part of the action learning and leading processes that make up this capability program. I also discovered a great video by Nigel Paine that describes organisational learning and action learning and have embedded this video onto the the DCLP creating capability front page and will be encouraging all participants and mentors to check this out as a good summary of why we are using the approach we are in this inaugural capability program this year.

I have developed a draft web quest/design activity and team groupings which is now part of the April to do list and located as a new page on the my.TAFE site under collaboration activities

Thanks to Jodie for the link [|http://popplet.com/app/#/236871] this might be extremely useful as part of the group activities I have made an animoto video that I used with the workshop photos from March and added some music into it. The tool is free and took 5 minutes to make pretty easy and worth trying out. The video is in the my.TAFE site under the DC-LP collation strategies and here.Have you subscribed or posted a comment to your fellow participants blogs as yet? This will be one of your April-May activities and you should find that I have posted at least once to all of the people who have a blog:( Please add your blog and delicious link to your web page in my.TAFE so that we can all link a little bit more over the coming months). I also enrolled in a 2 week online program through the social learning Centre facilitated by Harold Jarche. It cost me 25 pounds ands was money well spent to observe and check out other models of learning. Check my post in yammer for further details and I will also post a more extensive summary of my learning's in my next blog? I am also in the process of trying to ascertain the best e-portfolio tool so that I can list all of the networks and presentations I have done over the last few years they are all over the place and I need to consolidate them and have gained this understanding as just one of the many learning's from Harold's 2 week program outlined above. I need to go back and check out a posterous account and how that might relate to twitter, now that twitter has purchased this tool. You might like to check out what I have been bookmarking over the last couple of weeks here and also check out my twitter feed for some other snippets of information Get blogger app for iphone to see how easy it is to blog on the run, not convinced that this capacity is something that I want access to... being able to enjoy without trying to reflect all the time is a space I like:) Plus have you ever seen this idea before or could think of how to use it? I thought it was pretty clever marketing strategy to get something for free by paying with a tweet, cool concept has anyone ever used this in a trainingTAFE context? Plus I have some new images to use in the next couple of months spurred on by my recent online learning program they are: Thanks Shelley:) So..what has changed mmm....the weather? I tend to be working autonomously and remotely so the options to co-create occurs primarily across my five key work networks these are: I have also identified that the external networks/RSS feeds etc I use to enhance my skills and knowledge need to be widened and where possible I need to consider adding value to these communities by not only posting and collating, but taking more time to review and develop new understanding that is developing with this new information that I am sourcing. Making sense and sense making is a skill I need to work on :( I have made it a priority to subscribe via RSS feed to my Digital content - Leading practice participant blogs and to view and comment where possible once a week and then log this facilitation activity on a spreadsheet that I have tracks my online interactions, which is something I learned from delivering to the Diploma of e-learning cohort between 2006 - 2009. See this blog link for examples of how I used blogging for that community cohort. [] I have been interested in viewing the following sites for interesting perspectives on content creation in the 21st century. So will explore even further over the coming months. One of these sites here poses a creative challenge every day that people can do... looks great and I have signed up to get a handle on what is possible. " DS106 is the digital storytelling course out of the University of Mary Washington. It includes an open online community of learners and everyone is welcome to join! For more information and to register head to []." Plus I really like the site right at the top of the page for a daily cartoon, you can subscribe for a daily update and embed onto your blog etc. Which reminds me that perhaps I could do a few short videos or find links to some videos where people can learn how to embed multimedia etc into their blog. However I need to be careful not to make this blogging process too confusing, I still have some people who are not quite there yet! So finally don't forget to check out the To do list for April now posted here in my blogger site as a page and get your creative ideas flowing for your group project challenge over the next 6 weeks. ||
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