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Welcome to the wiki for the GippsTAFE Online Facilitation Course Work Task.
 * GippsTAFE Online Facilitation Course **
 * Resources Work Task **

The purpose of this wiki is for us to build up a list of suitable online learning materials. Please select your favourite two or three online resources and add them to the wiki. For each include a title, the URL and a one line description of what the web site is about. If you put your name at the end we'll know who has posted which items. :)


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First Join Wikispaces (you'll be sent an email confirming this), then sign in, (or just sign in if you are already a member). Then click on the "** Edit This Page **" button, add your information and then click the "** Save **" button. This link takes you to a great, short video on wikis and how they work. :) []
 * More about wikis **

http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go Check out this link for the latest e-learning news and developments, as well as links to products, resources and support networks.
 * Online Facilitation Resources **
 * Australian Flexible Learning Framework **

This link is to Nancy White's list on telephone facilitation I found it really useful when I was starting out - it's at [] if you'd like to check it out. Frankie


 * SYNCHRONOUS FACILITATION**


 * 1) **[|How Important are Synchronous Tools in Web-Based Teaching and Learning Environments?] **
 * 2) **[|Thoughts on Synchronous Learning]; a conversation with [|Jonathan Finkelstein] (podcast) **
 * 3) **Synchronous Facilitation wiki (by Michael and Frankie) **

**Hairdressing toolbox** http://toolboxes.flexiblelearning.net.au/demosites/series4/407/home.htm Work with an online cyber salon Katrina West The toolboxes are fun to view and use Katrina, tx. frankie 

[] Students can access course content Katrina West  This link is behind a firewall so only those with a password can access the resources. Frankie
 * My Chisholm Hairdressing content**

Ed Tech Weekly [|EdTech Talk] (Kim McLean) I subscribe and listen to the weekly podcasts, then check out the website to navigate the various online tools & sites related to Educational Technology

[|Ten Web 2.0 Things You can do in ten minutes] (Kim McLean) [] A great list of simple (& fun) things you can do on your journey to finding out more about Web 2.0 tools 

These are great ideas Kim, and the ed tech talks are well worth listening to - tx Frankie

http://designing.flexiblelearning.net.au/gallery/all.htm An index page of elearning strategies. Each strategy presents the application of the tool or activity supported by examples and resources.
 * Australian Flexible Learning Framework - [|Gallery of eLearning strategies]** (Diana Taylor)

http://www.bestuniversities.com/blog/2009/100-free-online-lectures-that-will-make-you-a-better-teacher/ Links to an assortment or audio visual resources to help you grow as an online facilitator
 * [|100 free online lectures that will make you a better teacher]** (Diana Taylor)

http://www.google.com for all my "i need to find out about..." needs :)  Tx Diana, I hadn't seen the 100 free online lectures before so will enjoy exploring this, your other links are great too. :) Frankie
 * [|Google]** (Diana Taylor)

The University of Adelaide (Janet Nicholds) http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/online/ Interesting topic list including an a -z of online learning resources  Hi Janet, this site looks full of good information - is there anything specific you'd like to point us to? Or if anyone has found something they'd like to share please let us know. Tx Frankie

 **Inclusive Teaching** (Matthew Watts) [] A good range of resources relating to inclusive teaching strategy from the University of Washington.

[|http://delicious.com] Bookmarks for popular web resources including various teaching and discipline related sites. 
 * Delicious** (Matthew Watts)

Hi Matthew, yes I like the delicious site - if you'd like to check out my delicious links they are at http://delicious.com/frankieforsyth Tx Frankie And my Delicious feed is http://delicious.com/mikecogh (Michael)

 [] Phil is passionate about teaching and learning in higher education and has lots of online resources to make you think [] These clips were used at a conference we ran and were very effective at engaging the audience. <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);"> Hi Judy, oooh these look interesting too! Lots of goodies to check out, tx Frankie
 * Phil Race** website (Judy Schrape)
 * YouTube clips about teaching in the 21st Century** (Judy Schrape)


 * WEB 2.0

Book: [|Here Comes Everybody] (Clay Shirky)

Social Learning site:** [Kristen McLeod] Discusses social learning, creating peer networks, sharing of content, collaborative learning, co-creating content - essentially working and learning together.
 * [] **

Google Reader is current and is a central place where you can store electronic items eg share articles, journals, files etc. It has been described as having your own interaction network - content is at the centre of your learning. [] This came from an elearning conference:- about people having central information sites, where you can your own information store and retrieve information quickly. []
 * This is Google Reader**, you have to register.
 * Here is a YouTube doc about it.**
 * To register you need to access this weblink:**

<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Hi Kristen, well done! Great suggestion and both Anne's slideshare and Lee's video are fabulous resources. I've been using Bloglines (which is similar to Google Reader) but am tempted to move to Google Reader as I use lots of Google's other web based tools. tx Frankie