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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. :)


 * Not sure how to use a wiki? **

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. :)  media type="custom" key="3141232"
 * More about wikis **

media type="custom" key="3141242" Check out this link for the latest e-learning news and developments, as well as links to products, resources and support networks.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Online Facilitation Resources **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Australian Flexible Learning Framework **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

[|Social Elearning] - In this resource you can explore the opportunities and challenges that you might discover with **social e-learning** in practice. Try this segment especially for information and examples on using [|virtual conferencing].

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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(255,0,51); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://elearning.unsw.edu.au/resources.cfm The eLearning Resources site contains downloadable materials to support the self-paced training and information needs of UNSW staff and students who use the various eLearning Service. It can be accessed by non-uni persons as well. Jacqueline Daly
 * University of New South Wales E-learning Resources**

http://www.elearninglearning.com/ eLearning Learning is a community that collects and organises information on the web to aid eLearning. It is plain English and really useful for explaining all the online approaches. Jacqueline Daly
 * ELearning Learning**

EDNA
[] Australia's free online network for educators. Provides a range of digital resources for educators and trainers. Provides training and the latest information for e-educators. Networks and discussiom boards for sharing information and resources. Covers all levels of education. Rebecca Pattison

**Education.au**
[|//http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/home//] Site dedicated to advancing tertiary education and the use of technology. Provides shared online services and resources, latest e-teaching news, technical consultancy, alliances and networks, and seminars and workshops by educational and technological leaders. Rebecca Pattison

eLearn
[] A New Zealand site providing the latest news on e-learning, training portals, resources, information on technology, networking opportunities, learning frame works and local policy for e-teaching. It has a tertiary education focus. Rebecca Pattison

**Jenny Preece**
Professor Jenny Preece is Dean of the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland; she specialises in the study of online communities. Prof Preece has published a substantial body of academic work on online community design, dynamics and usability. A number of her research papers are available online. Check out:

[|Why Lurkers Lurk]
This site sets out a model of elearning, organising information under the headings of Starting, Enabling, Doing, Evaluating and Managing. []
 * elearnspace**

This resource site focuses on eGovernment issues. It includes a Topics A-Z page and articles and resources on policies, standards, trends and initiatives. [] <span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(128,128,128);"> Amy Froome
 * eGovernment Resource Centre - eLearning Topics A-Z**


 * Mike Wesch**

Mike Wesch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology (Digital Ethnography) at Kansas State University. His studies provide insights on online culture and communities and their behaviour. [|His YouTube channel] contains several of his lectures as well as his own generated videos conveying his ideas on media literacy and behaviour.

The following videos may be of particular interest to this group:

While this video focusses on students today, one can assume that the attitudes and behaviours shown on this video would also apply to new and younger employees coming into the workforce.
 * A Vision of Students Today** (running time: 4 mins 45 secs)

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 * A Portal to Media Literacy** (running time: 1 hour 6 mins)

This lecture by Mike Wesch covers learning environments and the impact of Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, wikis etc).

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 * An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube** (running time: 55 mins 34 secs)

This lecture was presented in the US Library of Congress. This lecture provides some valuable insights on why people are online, what they are doing there and how a digital community is created.

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A web feed format that enables the user to establish a link where favoured internet content/blogs etc. are sent to, saving the user time in searching for information as it is sent to them. This link is a short presentation on the benefits of RSS and how to create one. []
 * RSS - Really Simple Syndication**

Anthony Harrington