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Category Archives: e-learning


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 […]

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 […]

Al Upton’s miniLegends: Episode 15 (E-learning Insights)

Al Upton’s hands-on experience using blogging as an educational tool covers learning outcomes, frustration with content filters and extending the learning beyond school walls.  Discover how even less tech-savvy teachers can harness the power of blogging and help students stay safe online.

edna’s 10th birthday webcast: Episode 14 (E-learning Insights)

On November 27 2007 the edna initiative celebrated its tenth anniversary.  A live event was held for staff and some guests at education.au’s Dulwich, South Australia offices that was webcast simultaneously into Second Life and into an instance of Live Classroom set up in edna’s Sandpit Groups.  If you were unable to attend any of […]

edna turns 10: Episode 13 (E-learning Insights)

Share four insights into education network Australia’s (edna’s) past, present and future and the paralell journey of e-learning in Australia. We hear from current education.au CEO Greg Black, former CEO Gerry White, General Manager of Business Development Garry Putland and edna Communications Officer Kerrie Smith.