The community engagement project under the Australian Flexible Learning Framework aims to enhance e-learning access for disadvantaged communities, focusing on economic and regional development. It provides resources, tools, and strategies to promote engagement through technology, including wikis, blogs, and podcasts. The project seeks to overcome geographical barriers to education, fostering partnerships and sustainable learning solutions.

1. Community Engagement Project Part of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (formerly E-learning Creative Community Partnerships Project )

2. Welcome! Role in Project Location Name

3. What is the Framework? national initiative to support the uptake of e-learning in communities, industry and the vocational and technical education system enhances education, training and employment opportunities Toolboxes, New Practices, Learnscope, Client Engagement , Networks, Benchmarking .. funded by the Australian Government and all States and Territories.

4. Community Engagement regional, rural and remote communities face unique challenges to access education and training isolation, distance and lack of support networks limit education and training opportunities technology can and is creating a solution.

5. Community Engagement Project aims to foster and embed e-learning in disadvantaged communities supports economic and regional development and sustainability strengthens partnerships locally, regionally and nationally.

6. Building “Web Presence”

7. Social and discussion forums, using moodle, at EdNA Groups http:// groups.edna.edu.au/

8. A blog , at edublogs.org for publicity, to let people know about the great work going on http://elearnala.edublogs.org/ Blogging, what for? One of the most popular, blogger.com has millions of users; Can be a good way to encourage fluency for literacy learners; A good way to regularly post info from a project; Various classroom teachers have used the format in different ways ..

9. A wiki, at wikispaces.com - for building knowledge together http://elearnala.wikispaces.com Benefits of a wiki Many people can register / login Multiple authors Collect and build knowledge together Other ‘hosted’ wikis include Pbwiki.com and wikieducator.org/ Moodle (and EdNA Groups have wiki built in.

10. Audio / podcast at eg odeo.com For sharing knowledge, broadcasting events .. A good podcasting tool will let you: Upload mp3 files Record direct onto web page Record from mobile phone There are other ways to embed audio on the page, but these ones (eg odeo, podomatic, gcast) make it easier.

11. Share bookmark / links at eg del.icio.us Many people can share links, with a short description You can feed your list of links into other places .. Eg into a wikispace, using “RSS” Other options include magnolia or Jotspot .. http://del.icio.us/ tag/ elearnala

12. E-resources kit for communities provides online guidance for developing and facilitating e-learning in communities outlines low cost tools and technologies ideas and case studies to get you started http:// creativecommunity.flexiblelearning.net.au/

14. computer-enhanced learning delivered on a computer or mobile technology, such as personal digital assistance or MP3 Player enables people to learn when, how, where and what they want ideal platform for regional and remote learners. What is e-learning?

15. What sort of LEARNERS are people working with? Questions to explore Photo: old light switch by strph at flickr Photo: still life by eisenrah at flickr

16. What does it take to CONNECT with disengaged learners, people in the community? What does it take to engage with “ the community ”? Photo: cafe by denkrahm at flickr (What have people tried, that wasn’t e-learning?) Photo: radio star .. by fodt at flickr

17. If your goal is to .. generate content, organise knowledge, enable collaboration, create web presence .. What are your goals? Photo: Suspension footbridge near Bluff, Utah by creativity+ @flickr

18. What TOOLS might be useful? What TECHNIQUES could be effective? How could you adapt technologies such as blog, wiki, forum, to your situation? Photo: interactive data visualisation by Dan Zen at flickr

19. What could be the benefits? What could be the drawbacks? Photo: Potential Optimization by lonely radio at flickr

20. Where would people like to go with this in the future? What is the fuller potential? Photo: Radio Perola by orianomada at flickr.com