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Your guide to social e-learning – Collaborating with blogs and online documents
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Gathering evidence and conversation with moblogs Collaborating with blogs and online documents |
Collaborating with blogs and online documents
Colleen Hodgins |
Colleen’s students come from a wide variety of backgrounds (including experienced trainers) to learn about e-learning. In this online course, students develop multimedia for an e-learning product or service for a work-based project. They are constantly challenged with opportunities to learn about and apply emerging web-based tools. Colleen encourages students to try out new tools and see how they can use them in their own projects, as well as in their professional e-learning repertoire. Colleen Hodgins is a Coordinator and Facilitator of the Diploma of e-learning, Cairns College, TAFE Queensland – Tropical North Queensland. |
Increasing flexibility, communication and collaborative work in an online program
Colleen explains why she and students are supplementing the use of a LMS with social software tools for enhanced flexibility and collaborative work. For example, blogs are a way for current students to connect with peers across groups as well as with previous students who become mentors for current students. Students are also using an online document service – Google Docs and Spreadsheets – as a tool for collaborative projects. Click the play button below.
Selecting and evaluating new tools
As part of their learning, students need to be exposed to new multimedia tools and applications for e-learning facilitators. But with so much to choose from, they need to prioritise which tools will be useful to invest time in, in order to learn.
Links
Colleen Hodgins can be contacted at: colleenhodgins@yahoo.com.au, and at colleen.hodgins@deta.qld.gov.au
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