The Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1905

From the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to everday innovations and mashups to the future of technology - Harriet Wakelam’s keynote address for the Melbourne leg of the edna Workshop tour will take you on a journey into the heart of effective teaching practice and the use of technology and mashups.

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 want to share something you’ve created as an educator – you might not be able to do so legally.

Creative Commons, an international movement to create licenses that allow creators to freely share their works online, is one way of lessening the confusion.

MCEETYA (the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) and Creative Commons Australia are teaming up to help educators thread their way through the maze – so they can advise learners and model best practice.

In this episode, we talk with Delia Browne, National Copyright Director for MCEETYA and Jessica Coates, Project Manager, Creative Commons Clinic, Queensland University of Technology.

Recorded 4 March 2009.

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 the questions:

What were some of the powerful lessons you’ve learned this year regarding what technology can do to support both teachers and learners?

AND/OR

Looking forward to 2009, what do you hope to learn and achieve?

Please introduce yourself by name, location and role so your story has context.

You may need to run through the Wimba set up Wizard first — http://educationau-classroom.netspot.com.au/

No luck? No headset or audio card? No problem! Send an email to kjohnson@educationau.edu.au and share your story via text.  I’ll read it out for you.

All submissions will be made available for mashing up after the podcast has aired under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non Commercial license.  If you are not willing for this to happen, please write that in the text box that is part of the Wimba Voice Board recorder.

Also, I’m happy to link to your blog from E-learning Insights podcast episode page on the edna site provided it meets edna’s editorial guidelines.

And on a personal note, thanks to all of you who have shared my journey this year and helped me reach new heights and make new discoveries.

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 barriers that may be holding you back.

Although primarily aimed at beginning bloggers, there’s plenty in here for more experienced bloggerati.

me.edu.au has recently added a blogging tool — so if you’re a member of me and haven’t yet set up a blog of your own, you’re just a click or two away from getting started!

If you’d prefer to see Sue’s slides while listening to the discussion, you may want to load up the Live Classroom Archive instead.

You will need to install some Java updates and run the set up wizard for Live Classroom before being able to view it.

For more information on how to set up Live Classroom, visit the edna online workshop Sandpit -  http://sandpit.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=126

Using the internet to establish your online presence or digital footprint and then building a network is the subject of this keynote address by social networks strategist and online communities consultant Laurel Papworth.

This keynote was delivered at Macquarie University on Tuesday, 29 July as part of edna’s 2008 workshop tour.

Introduction by KerryJ.

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 the global education community.

Discover what resources can help you to enhance learning across subject areas and find out what the trends are in your sector.

For a list of resources, visit the Episode 17 page of the E-learning Insights section of the edna web site.

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 more sophisticated mobile phones that are capable of web browsing and recording media, students have ways of accessing online sites out of the control of parents and institutions.

There are also risks to be dealt with like online scams, hackers and stranger danger. Some problems, like cyberbullying, come from the kids themselves.

Educators - including practitioners, principals and administrators - and parents are faced with trying to find a balance between protecting kids and allowing them to use the communications tools they will need to master for a new century.

Does your institution or jurisdiction incorporate open online tools that could result in social interaction such as photo sharing, video sharing, blogs,wikis, virtual worlds into your classroom teaching activities? What about mobile phones?

If so and you are a practitioner, let us know what you use, how you use it, what age group and how you manage safety issues. What learning outcomes result from the use of these tools?

If you are a principal or administrator, do you have a formal policy in place regarding the use of online tools by teachers and students? Does your institution or jurisdiction have an internet safety education policy in place? What about one extending to mobile phones?

Leave your Vox Pop by visiting the edna Sandpit – http://sandpit.edna.edu.au , logging in and using your headset and mic to record audio on the Wimba voice board. If you aren’t registered with edna – it only takes a few minutes and it is free.

No headset? No problem! Send an email to podcasts@edna.edu.au with the subject line “Vox Pop 2: Social Media”.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, 25 April 2008.