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“ The Read/Write Web” (Tim Berners Lee) Original photo by Hummanna .

The Impact of Voice Personal Immediate Closer Humanity Interaction Dynamic Emotion Connection Collegiality Source: www.voice.gatech.edu/

Personal

Immediate

Closer

Humanity

Interaction

Dynamic

Emotion

Connection

Collegiality

TARGET GROUPS (Who Benefits?) English as Second or Other Language Learners (ESOL) Low level literacy Those with little recent formal learning experience Those with poor keyboard skills Those who prefer an auditory style of learning

English as Second or Other Language Learners (ESOL)

Low level literacy

Those with little recent formal learning experience

Those with poor keyboard skills

Those who prefer an auditory style of learning

Voice allows for complex tone (compared to uniform tone of written text)

Voice allows for complex tone (compared to uniform tone of written text)

Spoken v Read Text Hello everyone. My name's Anne, and I'm feeling a little nervous about this online course because this is a brand new experience. Still, I'm not one to shrink from a challenge so I'm also feeling pretty excited about it. I hope doing this course will enable me to improve my career prospects, and make some new friends from the people doing the course. So let's roll!

Hello everyone. My name's Anne, and I'm feeling a little nervous about this online course because this is a brand new experience. Still, I'm not one to shrink from a challenge so I'm also feeling pretty excited about it. I hope doing this course will enable me to improve my career prospects, and make some new friends from the people doing the course. So let's roll!

The Short List Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Initiative and Enterprise

Planning and Organising

Self-management

Learning

Technology

Executive Functions (Neuroscience) planning decision-making inhibition meta-cognition (thinking about learning) creativity problem solving

planning

decision-making

inhibition

meta-cognition (thinking about learning)

creativity

problem solving

Employability Skills Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology Executive Functions problem solving decision-making,creativity planning inhibition meta-cognition (thinking about learning)

Employability Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Initiative and Enterprise

Planning and Organising

Self-management

Learning

Technology

Executive Functions

problem solving

decision-making,creativity

planning

inhibition

meta-cognition (thinking about learning)

Tools: Audacity Wimba Voice Boards – example Voice Thread Chinswing - example PhotoStory, MovieMaker Blogs, Podcast sites Podomatic, Odeo (open web) Podzone Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate) Skype Second Life

Audacity

Wimba Voice Boards – example

Voice Thread

Chinswing - example

PhotoStory, MovieMaker

Blogs, Podcast sites

Podomatic, Odeo (open web)

Podzone

Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate)

Skype

Second Life

Audacity

Voice Boards Wimba (proprietary) - example Voice Thread Chinswing - example

Wimba (proprietary) - example

Voice Thread

Chinswing - example

Asynch Synch Oral Written Dialogic Minimalistic Reflective; combination of dialogic and monologic Most structured form of communication COMMUNICATION AXIS

Tools: Audacity Wimba Voice Boards – example Voice Thread Chinswing - example PhotoStory, Movie Maker Blogs , Podcast sites Podomatic, Odeo (open web) Podzone Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate) Skype Second Life

Audacity

Wimba Voice Boards – example

Voice Thread

Chinswing - example

PhotoStory, Movie Maker

Blogs , Podcast sites

Podomatic, Odeo (open web)

Podzone

Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate)

Skype

Second Life

Photo Story: which skills?

Photo Story: which skills? Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology Which skills? – all of them!

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Initiative and Enterprise

Planning and Organising

Self-management

Learning

Technology

Tools: Audacity Wimba Voice Boards – example Voice Thread Chinswing - example PhotoStory, Movie Maker Blogs , Podcast sites Podomatic, Odeo (open web) Podzone Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate) Skype Second Life

Audacity

Wimba Voice Boards – example

Voice Thread

Chinswing - example

PhotoStory, Movie Maker

Blogs , Podcast sites

Podomatic, Odeo (open web)

Podzone

Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate)

Skype

Second Life

Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate)

Second Life See Second Life in Education

Other Customised Solutions Recognition of Prior Learning or Current Competency for Indigenous Learners (University of Ballarat)

Recognition of Prior Learning or Current Competency for Indigenous Learners (University of Ballarat)

Why Media? Adrian Miles (RMIT): “ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.” Innate human desire/need to create Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables creation of art, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc

Adrian Miles (RMIT):

“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”

Innate human desire/need to create

Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables creation of art, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc

TO <EMBED> OR </NOT TO EMBED?> Making Executive Functions explicit produces better results than embedding. (Martin Westwell) (Is the same true for employability skills?) We need 'character education' that develops executive functions. This needs to be explicit in curricula that focus on training the person rather than just teaching content. We need to develop effective assessment strategies to promote and measure these characteristics. (Westwell)

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