Slides from a presentation by jokay aka jokay Wollongong for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in Second Life.
Visit http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/istepresentation08 for event resources.
Building Community in Minecraft - Massively@jokaydia.comJo Kay
Jo Kay will talk about her experiences with building a kid-driven community of practice on the Massively@jokaydia Minecraft server - a global community of more than 1000 kids and parents. Her focus will include building an effective community charter to encourage digital citizenship, incorporating gamification to encourage engagement, and harnessing leadership from kids to manage and maintain the community.
VWBPE 2012 - Massively Minecraft - Learning WITH Little Miners!Jo Kay
Massively Minecraft is a Guild based learning community for kids aged 4-16 who are interested in developing digital media skills, exploring their creativity and developing online social skills using the video game Minecraft.
Our guild is a social-enterprise, founded in mid 2011 for parents, teachers, schools and researchers as players in an open world to learn together, using game-theory and our experience of developing process networks in virtual worlds.
Western Institute Virtual Tourism: from Moodle to Opensim! Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education Conference, 2011. Exploring the use of Virtual Worlds in Tourism & Hospitality Training with Rob Merchi and Jokay Wollongong
Building Community in Minecraft - Massively@jokaydia.comJo Kay
Jo Kay will talk about her experiences with building a kid-driven community of practice on the Massively@jokaydia Minecraft server - a global community of more than 1000 kids and parents. Her focus will include building an effective community charter to encourage digital citizenship, incorporating gamification to encourage engagement, and harnessing leadership from kids to manage and maintain the community.
VWBPE 2012 - Massively Minecraft - Learning WITH Little Miners!Jo Kay
Massively Minecraft is a Guild based learning community for kids aged 4-16 who are interested in developing digital media skills, exploring their creativity and developing online social skills using the video game Minecraft.
Our guild is a social-enterprise, founded in mid 2011 for parents, teachers, schools and researchers as players in an open world to learn together, using game-theory and our experience of developing process networks in virtual worlds.
Western Institute Virtual Tourism: from Moodle to Opensim! Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education Conference, 2011. Exploring the use of Virtual Worlds in Tourism & Hospitality Training with Rob Merchi and Jokay Wollongong
Slides for a presentation at the NSW Flexible Learning Framework's eLearning 2010 event by Jo Kay and Robyn Alderton. Provides overview of the TAFENSW - Western Institute Virtual Tourism Project
Open Source software and learning resources have become increasingly popular over the last few years and offer some really interesting options for learners and educators. But are they really free? What are the implementation costs? What resources do you need? What sort of opensource tools and resources are out there?
In this session Jo Kay will explore a range of tools including:
- Wikiversity, WikiEducator and Open Courseware
- Audacity, OpenOffice, Tuxpaint, The Gimp (Opensource Desktop Software)
- Moodle and Sakai (Learning Management Systems)
- Wordpress. Buddypress and Elgg (social/community tools)
- OpenSimulator and SLoodle (Learning in 3D)
Presented as part of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework's MAKING e-technology WORK FOR you Online Conference | 16 and 17 June 2010 | #
Exploring the Metaverse - Education in Virtual Worlds and GamesJo Kay
Slides from an Elluminate Session for New Learning and New Literacies Online Masters Students at University of Illinois - http://education.illinois.edu/online/newlearning/
Exploring the Metaverse: Virtual Worlds and Games for LearningJo Kay
Virtual Worlds and Games are increasingly being used in education and training to create learning experiences which are immersive, authentic and media rich.
These slides are from a session by jokay Wollongong for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.
It explores some of ways educators from around the world are using spaces like Second Life, ReactionGrid, Quest Atlantis and World of Warcraft with their students.
Discussion forum and recordings @ http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/exploring-metaverse-virtual-worlds-and-games-learning
Slides for a presentation for the eGems series on using Mashup techniques to create useful spaces for classes, learner groups and communities of practice.
e-learning for industry. Presented by Oenone Serle, Sarah Vandepeer & Peter Hancock, Workplace Learning Initiatives. Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007.
E-Learning for Industry - ASSDA – SkillsTech Australia. Jo Kay
E-Learning for Industry - ASSDA – SkillsTech Australia. Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007. Presented by Maurits Gustavsson, Business Manager (Education Development Research Modelling)
RTOs benefit from partnering with business. Presented by Partners Consulting & The Good Guys. Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007.
UPDATED: Everything old is new again…or is it?Jo Kay
Updated to include audience responses and participation!
Slides from Keynote Presentation by Janine Bowes. In this presentation Janine will explore the skills and attributes that an online teacher needs in the 21st century to stay on top of the game. In considering the past two decades of online learning, it is useful to note some underlying principles that are timeless but also to be open to new possibilities.
Presentation by Ian Phillips and Annie Fergusson. The Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s annual E-learning Benchmarking surveys, which measure the use, impact and uptake of e-learning within vocational education and training (VET) have been completed. The results are now available via the Flexible Learning Framework website. The surveys show that 29% of all VET activity now involves e-learning. This is up from 17% in 2006 and 6-8% in 2005. The growth in e-learning is primarily being driven by RTOs that were already using e-learning and extending it to more of their students. Nearly half of all registered training organisations still say they do no e-learning. Tune in to find out about the latest trends in the uptake and use of e-learning with data from the e-learning surveys of RTOs, VET students, employers and VET teachers and trainers. See the extent to which different training organisations are using e-learning, and catch up on what individual RTOs are doing to benchmark their use of e-learning.
Coming Up: Ten challenges for workforce development. Presentation by Barb McP...Jo Kay
Businesses and workplaces are very different to how they were 10, even just 5 years ago. Critics of our national training system suggest competencies are out of date. Are they? Or, is it our approaches to learning and our understanding of what constitutes training that is now out of step with the needs we claim to address? At what point do the national VET system, workforce development needs and culture of organisational learning intersect? Siemens and Wegner, familiar to VET practitioners on the Australian conference circuit 2005-2006, promote connectivism-network learning theory, and communities of practice respectively as relevant alternatives to traditional classroom learning. In this presentation, Barb McPherson a veteran of six Australian Flexible Learning Framework initiatives since 2002 considers ten challenges to workforce development and how RMT is responding and preparing for change.
PD … can be so much more than a nice morning teaJo Kay
Presentation by Sharon Altena, Southbank Institute of Technology. How effective is your eLearning PD strategy? Are you frustrated that you are not making sustainable changes to the practices of teachers? What are the eight principles of effective PD?
Presentation by Owen O'Neil. This presentation will provide an update on a number of technical standards for e-learning content that are being collaboratively agreed on through the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s E-standards project. Topics will include m-learning, e-portfolios, computer network and firewall access, e-learning content development standards and more. The focus of the presentation will be on how such standards can be utilised by e-learning practitioners.
Slides from Keynote Presentation by Janine Bowes. In this presentation Janine will explore the skills and attributes that an online teacher needs in the 21st century to stay on top of the game. In considering the past two decades of online learning, it is useful to note some underlying principles that are timeless but also to be open to new possibilities.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
-------------------------------------------
During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Slides for a presentation at the NSW Flexible Learning Framework's eLearning 2010 event by Jo Kay and Robyn Alderton. Provides overview of the TAFENSW - Western Institute Virtual Tourism Project
Open Source software and learning resources have become increasingly popular over the last few years and offer some really interesting options for learners and educators. But are they really free? What are the implementation costs? What resources do you need? What sort of opensource tools and resources are out there?
In this session Jo Kay will explore a range of tools including:
- Wikiversity, WikiEducator and Open Courseware
- Audacity, OpenOffice, Tuxpaint, The Gimp (Opensource Desktop Software)
- Moodle and Sakai (Learning Management Systems)
- Wordpress. Buddypress and Elgg (social/community tools)
- OpenSimulator and SLoodle (Learning in 3D)
Presented as part of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework's MAKING e-technology WORK FOR you Online Conference | 16 and 17 June 2010 | #
Exploring the Metaverse - Education in Virtual Worlds and GamesJo Kay
Slides from an Elluminate Session for New Learning and New Literacies Online Masters Students at University of Illinois - http://education.illinois.edu/online/newlearning/
Exploring the Metaverse: Virtual Worlds and Games for LearningJo Kay
Virtual Worlds and Games are increasingly being used in education and training to create learning experiences which are immersive, authentic and media rich.
These slides are from a session by jokay Wollongong for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.
It explores some of ways educators from around the world are using spaces like Second Life, ReactionGrid, Quest Atlantis and World of Warcraft with their students.
Discussion forum and recordings @ http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/exploring-metaverse-virtual-worlds-and-games-learning
Slides for a presentation for the eGems series on using Mashup techniques to create useful spaces for classes, learner groups and communities of practice.
e-learning for industry. Presented by Oenone Serle, Sarah Vandepeer & Peter Hancock, Workplace Learning Initiatives. Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007.
E-Learning for Industry - ASSDA – SkillsTech Australia. Jo Kay
E-Learning for Industry - ASSDA – SkillsTech Australia. Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007. Presented by Maurits Gustavsson, Business Manager (Education Development Research Modelling)
RTOs benefit from partnering with business. Presented by Partners Consulting & The Good Guys. Presented at the e-Show n Tell Online Conference, 7 November 2007.
UPDATED: Everything old is new again…or is it?Jo Kay
Updated to include audience responses and participation!
Slides from Keynote Presentation by Janine Bowes. In this presentation Janine will explore the skills and attributes that an online teacher needs in the 21st century to stay on top of the game. In considering the past two decades of online learning, it is useful to note some underlying principles that are timeless but also to be open to new possibilities.
Presentation by Ian Phillips and Annie Fergusson. The Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s annual E-learning Benchmarking surveys, which measure the use, impact and uptake of e-learning within vocational education and training (VET) have been completed. The results are now available via the Flexible Learning Framework website. The surveys show that 29% of all VET activity now involves e-learning. This is up from 17% in 2006 and 6-8% in 2005. The growth in e-learning is primarily being driven by RTOs that were already using e-learning and extending it to more of their students. Nearly half of all registered training organisations still say they do no e-learning. Tune in to find out about the latest trends in the uptake and use of e-learning with data from the e-learning surveys of RTOs, VET students, employers and VET teachers and trainers. See the extent to which different training organisations are using e-learning, and catch up on what individual RTOs are doing to benchmark their use of e-learning.
Coming Up: Ten challenges for workforce development. Presentation by Barb McP...Jo Kay
Businesses and workplaces are very different to how they were 10, even just 5 years ago. Critics of our national training system suggest competencies are out of date. Are they? Or, is it our approaches to learning and our understanding of what constitutes training that is now out of step with the needs we claim to address? At what point do the national VET system, workforce development needs and culture of organisational learning intersect? Siemens and Wegner, familiar to VET practitioners on the Australian conference circuit 2005-2006, promote connectivism-network learning theory, and communities of practice respectively as relevant alternatives to traditional classroom learning. In this presentation, Barb McPherson a veteran of six Australian Flexible Learning Framework initiatives since 2002 considers ten challenges to workforce development and how RMT is responding and preparing for change.
PD … can be so much more than a nice morning teaJo Kay
Presentation by Sharon Altena, Southbank Institute of Technology. How effective is your eLearning PD strategy? Are you frustrated that you are not making sustainable changes to the practices of teachers? What are the eight principles of effective PD?
Presentation by Owen O'Neil. This presentation will provide an update on a number of technical standards for e-learning content that are being collaboratively agreed on through the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s E-standards project. Topics will include m-learning, e-portfolios, computer network and firewall access, e-learning content development standards and more. The focus of the presentation will be on how such standards can be utilised by e-learning practitioners.
Slides from Keynote Presentation by Janine Bowes. In this presentation Janine will explore the skills and attributes that an online teacher needs in the 21st century to stay on top of the game. In considering the past two decades of online learning, it is useful to note some underlying principles that are timeless but also to be open to new possibilities.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
-------------------------------------------
During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.