Free and Easy Tools – Blue Mountains

On Thursday afternoon I had fun for 2 hours with another group of fellow TAFE staff, as we saw how easy it is to create our own website on the Internet. Judging from the feedback, most people were suprised at how easy it was!

We spent quite a bit of time at the beginning of our workshop . . . → Read More: Free and Easy Tools – Blue Mountains

Assessment with confidence!

Attended a great training event today: “Maximising Confidence in Assessment Decision-making”, down at TAFE Kingswood campus, which started with a presentation by Berwyn Clayton from Canberra Institute of Technology on “Building confidence by minimising risk in assessment.”

The most practical tips to come out of the day for me were:

We can’t sample everything when assessing a competency . . . → Read More: Assessment with confidence!

Corporate Blogging at TAFE?

Some companies have recently been scrambling to get their employees blogging in a bid to unleash armies of evangelists out into the community. On the 16th of May James Snell of IBM writes:

IBM today is publishing an announcement on its Intranet site encouraging all 320,000+ employees world wide to consider engaging actively in the practice of . . . → Read More: Corporate Blogging at TAFE?

Free and Easy Tools Baulkham Hills

Yesterday I had the chance to spend 2 hours with a bunch of TAFEies from Baulkham hills and Nepean…We had a great time seeing (and trying) some of the free and easy tools out there on the web!

We started out by looking at Wikipedia, and seeing how the web is changing into something that everyone can . . . → Read More: Free and Easy Tools Baulkham Hills

‘Weekly’ report 6: Blended Learning

It’s getting towards the end of my planned project time working on the tutorial:Getting Started with Blogging in Education. It’s been a great learning process for me in lots of different ways… next week I’ll write up my own summary + reflections, but for now just the normal droll (for my own record) of what’s been . . . → Read More: ‘Weekly’ report 6: Blended Learning