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Building Digital Bridges: Episode 23 (E-learning Insights)

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Copyright and Creative Commons: Episode 22 (E-learning Insights)

Episode 22 As learning moves online and educators and learners look to use and share materials, there are issues regarding copyright and educational exemptions that both groups need to consider.
What is legal to use in a classroom often is not legal to make available to the wider internet, despite an educational use or context.
If you […]

2008 year end Vox Pop - interesting times

May you live in interesting times.  Whether or not this is an actual ancient Chinese blessing/curse - 2008 was certainly full of interesting moments in time.
Feel like sharing some of yours?
Log into edna Groups, Pop over to the E-learning Insights Vox Pop Group, newly re-located to http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=2090 and use the Wimba Voice Board to answer […]

Digital Literacies: Episode 21 (E-learning Insights)

Is the wealth of information and tools available electronically expanding our ideas on what literacies are necessary for lifelong learning? Or is the term literacy becoming over-used?
edna Education Officer Belinda Spry has been leading workshop sessions around Australia on this topic and this episode is a recording of an online discussion with a passionate group […]

Blogging- it’s a conversation: Episode 20 (E-learning Insights)

Sue Waters, editor of the Edublogger and high profile blogger in her own right leads this discussion on effective blogging. 
This hour’s worth of audio (27.8 MB) from an online discussion held in Live Classroom, includes tips for more effective blogging, examples of how to stimulate comments and conversations and how to overcome some of the […]

Managing your online footprint: Episode 19 (E-learning Insights)

With the rapid pace of change in technology and teaching, no ONE person can know it all. Thanks to networks of friends and colleagues, no one person has to know it all.
Using the internet to establish your online presence or digital footprint and then building a network is the subject of this keynote address by […]

ednaworkshops08 2 of 4- Learning without borders: Episode 18 (E-learning Insights)

In this second of four series from edna’s 2008 online workshops, Cecily Wright, an Education Officer with edna’s Professional Learning and Online Communities team, leads a discussion on global education.
In her session “Learning Without Borders”, Cecily challenges educators from all sectors to move beyond the wall of their institutions and immediate community to engage in […]

ednaworkshops08 1 of 4- me.edu.au: Episode 17 (E-learning Insights)

In this first of four series of episodes from edna’s online workshops, Kerrie Smith, Assistant Manager of edna’s Professional Learning and Online Communities introduces participants to the new me.edu.au web service.  me.edu.au is a an online professional networking service for educators and is the keystone to edna’s other services such as the online communities of […]

Vox Pop 2: Social media – balancing the risks and opportunities

Calling teachers, principals and administrators – it’s time your voice was heard (literally) on the next E-learning Insights Vox Pop.
Studies from Australia and the United States show that children as young as 8 years old are getting online to explore virtual worlds, set up online identities, chat in chat rooms and share photos and videos.
With […]

Blogging Vox Pops: Episode 16 (E-learning Insights)

Educators share their thoughts on blogging - some via emails read out by the host, others by audio messages left on a voice board set up for the podcast in this interactive edition of edna’s E-learning Insights.