Simon, Wendy and I would like to thank you for your interest this morning; the questions/suggestions that came out of the session were useful in helping us all to think about the potential benefits of moving online, as well as some of the issues we are going to face as the UltraNet moves closer to reality.  

I have placed the video from this morning on the videos page of this blog – use the links above, or click here.  If you’d like a downloadable version of the video you can find it parked in my driveway account - here (click the ‘download’ button and it’ll download it to your hard-drive). 

You will also find this morning’s presentation (including the video file) here.  This is a conversion from Apple’s Keynote (which I used this morning) to Microsoft’s Powerpoint, so you may need to ‘tweek’ it by moving a few things around on the pages before you present it to staff (but, hey it’s all good practice for this new collaborative world we are entering!). 

The link to the eLearning Planning materials is over here.   You will need your edumail password to gain access to these resources. 

On the Department’s website toolkit page you will find general permission forms for online use, etc.

Check out the other videos, presentations, links, etc on the blog… many of them have great value, particularly as discussion starters for staff meetings/PLTs, etc.  

This Wikipedia entry features a detailed description of what a ‘blog’ is.  At the bottom of the page on every Wikipedia entry is a list of ‘External Links’ – you will generally find a host of useful links to sites related to the topic at hand.  You may notice that this blog is made using WordPress as the blogging tool, I find WordPress blogs easy to use, and quite powerful.  They also provide plenty of customisation in terms of actual appearance.  There are a number of educationally focussed blogging tools (many of which use WordPress Multi-User as their base), such as: EduBlogs, and Global Teacher (Global Teacher is a site set up specifically for Victorian teachers to blog).  

This Wikipedia entry describes how a ‘wiki’ works – links again are at the bottom of the page.   A wiki can be used as a simple, but effective collaborative online learning management system for curricular groups within your schools – I have previously used PB Wikias a tool for developing a curriculum wiki.

If the resources in this post are useful to you, or you have any other ideas/suggestions on useful web-based tools, then please leave a comment for us so that we know you’ve stopped by (use the comment bubble above the post).