I found another two articles about "blended training" teaching and the challenges that it brings.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/10/04/5-skills-for-blended-learning-teachers.aspx
http://www.innosightinstitute.org/media-room/publications/blended-learning/blended-learning-model-definitions/
Happy reading
MF
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
E-Learning - Articles
Dear TDN members
I found these two interesting article about E-learning:
One of them is about principles in E-learning facilitation and some info on free -learning courses:
http://eteach2012.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/6-steps-e-learning-faciltation-ettiquette/
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/50-top-sources-of-free-elearning-courses/
MF
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sydney Facilitators Network - November meeting
Next Meeting | Monday November 12, 2012 | 5.30pm
“Wildcard” – Processes and Ideas for Facilitating Large Groups
At a 'Wildcard' meeting, volunteer facilitators step-up to run a short ‘taster’ session of between 5 and 20 minutes. Wildcards offer a great way to get a whole range of ideas and tools for working with groups. It’s also a good opportunity to try something out or share something you have seen work.
November Wildcard theme ‘Processes and Ideas for Facilitating Large Groups’.
Large groups often present a challenge for facilitators. What tools are available? What works and what doesn’t? Tips and tricks to get the best out of a situation.
Sessions are not scheduled in advance. Everything happens on the night including a short debriefing.
About the Facilitator:
Session facilitators sign up on the night. This is what makes the wildcard such an enjoyable learning experience. Come with something to share or just to learn and have fun.
Venue:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street.
Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580.
Time:
From 5:30pm to 7:30pm sharp | No RSVP - Just turn up
Thursday, October 11, 2012
5 Things Every Presenter Should Know About People - VIDEO
This is a really interesting video for presenters.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/20/things-every-presenter-should-know-about-people-susan-weinschenk/
MF
WIKI Teaching - Article
I found these two interesting articles about the value of WIKIs as a collaborative tool in an educational context:
http://apo.org.au/commentary/wiki-teaching
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3583/3313
MF
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Sydney Facilitators Network - October Meeting
|
Temporary Room Change OCTOBER 2012 ONLY (CB02.06.44)
Cnr.
Broadway and Jones St.
Enter
from Broadway via the Big UTS Tower
‘Demystifying Strategy – for
Facilitators’ with Greg Jenkins
Understanding strategy is critical for facilitators.
Yet the language and concepts of strategy are largely misunderstood not only
by facilitators but consultants and almost everyone else.
Regardless of your experience, this session will help demystify
strategy broadly covering:
·
What do the commonly used strategic terms really mean?
Are they appropriate?
·
What tools are available for developing strategy? Do
they work?
·
What’s the difference between a ‘strategic plan’ and
‘implementation planning’? Why is the distinction important?
·
Is a facilitated workshop an appropriate vehicle for
strategic planning? What are the alternatives?
·
What’s in it for facilitators?
Greg Jenkins
Greg is
coordinator of Sydney Facilitators Network and a practicing Change Agent with
more than a decade of experience in both the business and community sectors.
Venue: Temporary Room Change October 2012 Only
UTS Building 2 http://lostoncampus.com.au/152| Level 6 Room 44 Enter from Broadway via the big UTS tower.
Time:
From 5:30pm to 7:30pm | No RSVP - Just
turn up
|
Monday, September 24, 2012
Next TDN Meeting - October 17th
this is the agenda of our next meeting:
AGENDA
Date of
meeting: 17th
October 2012
Time: 9:30
am – 1.00 pm
Venue: Western Sydney Community
Forum
Address: Level 4, 146 Marsden St,
Parramatta
1.
Welcome/introductions
2.
Apologies
3.
Guest Speaker: Peter Rogers from WESTIR – “basic principles to
develop a training needs analysis”
4.
“What is
Happening” (new workers, new projects)
5.
Next meeting
Training
Directions Network (TDN)
Minutes of the TDN meeting held
on 15 March 2012
Present: Monica Lamelas (CCWT), Miguel Ferrero (WSCF), Celia
Hutton (TRI), Leeane Torpey (ICE), Sarah Featherbe (CRN)
Apologies: Katy Mercer (IFP-Institute of Family Practice),
Jaye Toole (MD Services), Jackie
Wilgress (FWTDP), Margaret Tipper (CRN), Justine Lee (CCWT), Adele Johns
(Community Compass), Anne-Marie Kerr (TRI),
Facilitator: Miguel Ferrero Minutes Taker: Miguel Ferrero
1.
Welcome/Introductions
TDN members were asked to introduce themselves
2.
Apologies: See list
3.
Business
Arising from previous minutes
None
4.
“What’s
Happening” (new workers and new projects)
Monica Lamelas (CCWT)
- CCWT's 2012 calendar is now
available - you can download it in PDF format from http://www.acwa.asn.au/ccwt.html
- We have two new regional
training locations: Albury and Orange
- We are now actively encouraging
web use for course search and registration, with over 60% of registrations
received so far this year were received online. We have officially arrived in
cyberspace!
- We have 35 new courses
including workshops on dealing with bullying, social media use and
policy, Community Development (Intro and Advanced), and 9 new courses in
the child protection and family work stream including engaging skillfully with
children whose parents have mental health issues.
- We also have a new expanded
range of qualifications on offer, including:
- Certificate IV in Frontline Management.
- Certificate IV in Community Services Work
- Certificate IV in Youth Work
- Diploma of Community Services Work
- Diploma of Community Work (Case Management)
- Diploma of Counselling
As well as our existing Diploma of
Community Services Coordination and Diploma of Management. Further details on
our new qualifications are coming soon- please keep an eye on our website if
you're interested.
Celia Hutton (TRI
Community Exchange)
At the SHINE launch will be held on March 29th
at Windsor Library and the project will be training people to use these 6
online resources.
SHINE resources/strategies overview:
- Primary strategy, set
up Hawkesbury Community Interagency as central interagency, link
Hawkesbury News Blog to this interagency, encourage all agencies that
provide services within the Hawkesbury LGA to become members to this
interagency. Enable broader cross-over of workers across other
interagencies, and reduce interagency service siloing.
- Members of HCI will
receive a weekly HeN (Hawkesbury e-newsletter) that can be easily searched
via sidebar categories. Will list all events posted that week in the
Hawkesbury. Will be great way to get information out to the entire local
sector in one post without advertising costs, simply requires agencies to
become members of HCI. Advantage
easily searchable via categories unlike other e-newsletter such as MCRN
support new.
- See below overview of 4
of the resources developed under the SHINE project that would make you
work as both a convenor and sector worker more effective. If you would
like to discuss anything further with me, please call anytime.
SHINE
Online Resources:
1.
Hawkesbury News Blog - established
in partnership with the Hawkesbury Community Interagency to address gap of
local information hub. Advantages- will reduce email info share overload,
provide one central place for Hawkesbury services to post and access
information relevant to the local sector and their communities, encourage
broader sector collaborations and bind the Hawkesbury as a more cohesive
community of services This blog will also be available for the community to
access
a. Hawkesbury
e-newsletter (HeN)–Weekly automated newsletter that is sent
out to all members of the Hawkesbury Community Interagency. Advantages- will
include all weekly postings to the Hawkesbury News Blog in easy to find search
categories. Promote HCI as central contact for local sector, directly link the
Hawkesbury News Blog to this interagency and encourage workers from other
interagencies and services to become members of the HCI
2.
Hawkesbury Interagencies Mailing List (HIML)
web-based mailing list for the Hawkesbury Community Interagency. Advantages-
one central email address, reduce convenor email overload, direct information
share emails to Hawkesbury News Blog, more effective email communication
enabled across membership between meetings. Promote as best practice model for
other Hawkesbury Interagencies.
3.
Hawkesbury Interagencies Portal (HIP) Interagency
document archive on communityNet to store and publish interagencies meeting
agendas, minutes terms of reference. Advantages-promotes wider visibility of
Interagency, builds membership, particularly helpful for new workers
4.
Hawkesbury Interagencies Calendar (HIC) accessed
through communityNet easy to view interactive calendar of active interagencies,
networks and forums operating in the Hawkesbury. Advantages- plan attendance at
meetings at a glance in any view from daily to yearly, option to download into
own outlook calendar. You will never forget a meeting again or lack the
resources to find them. Hyperlinks to terms of reference or MoUs where
applicable as well as interagency sites will also be available in the calendar
view
see link Hawkesbury News Blog:
Link to submit content to blog:
Link to last e-Newsletter SHINE
Link to Interagency toolkit
Link to Hawkesbury Interagency Portal (HIP)
Leeane Torpey (ICE)
- ICE is rolling out its public
program for short, paid courses in digital technology - the next one
is in audio production. So if you / your organisation wants to find out
how to run sound at events, or basic music recording techniques, get in
touch - training@ice.org.au
- We are holding Rumble Wordshops this week at
ICE - which is a series of workshops finishing in a poetry slam on Friday.
All are welcome - come along from 6pm on Friday 30 March.
- And we just launched Chatterbox - a community
news program ICE has been making with support from Aurora TV. If you would
like to profile any events, or have an idea for a story, get in touch - ben.rose@ice.org.au.
- Check out the promo! http://youtu.be/ZyT1iHtwggE
·
As
always, we encourage folk to use our free, interactive website artfiles.com.au to profile thier projects and
events in Western Sydney
Miguel Ferrero (WSCF)
·
WSCF
has made its training calendar available for the first semester of 2012 and
some sessions have not been completely filled
·
Miguel distributed some articles about training
including a resource list compiled by the presenter.
·
Also, there was discussion about making the network
more interesting and attractive. It was suggested to developed a survey monkey
to get feedback and opinion for future focus in 2012 and 2013. Miguel will
follow up this item.
Sarah Featherbe (CRN)
- Community Resource
Network, with the support of NSW Family & Community Services'
Community Builders Program, is excited to bring you The Professional and
Organisational Development (POD) Project's two day event: Branding,
Marketing and Communications for Non-Profit and Community Service
Organisations, held on Tuesday 1st May - Wednesday 2nd May 2012
8:30am - 4:00pm.
- This highly interactive
and practical seminar will ensure all participants leave with a clear and
strong understanding of how to distinguish the strength of their
organisation or project, and communicate it in meaningful and powerful
ways to gain greater support from funding bodies, grants organisations,
business community, and your service community at large.
- Thanks to the support
of the NSW Family & Community Services' Community Builders Program,
this event is completely free for non-profit and community service
organisations, including materials and catering for both days.
- Priority will be
strictly given to Community Services funded organisations in the Blacktown
and Hills LGAs, and places are limited.
- For more information
and to book your place now before the event fills up, visit: http://crnpod.eventbrite.com.au
- HOT TOPIC: Guest Speaker: Monica Lamelas – CCWT Senior Learning and Development Project
Manager – “Better Powerpoint presentations”
This is a brief
summary of Monica’s presentation and discussion.
·
Monica
is a senior project officer at CCWT
·
The
purpose of this presentation is to provide tips to develop great powerpoint
presentations and what is possible.
What is
wrong with Powerpoint presentations
·
The
tool has been blamed for the bad presentations we have all experienced
·
It
is possible to make it more inspirational
·
The
documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” of Alan Gore is a good example how
powerpoint presentation can be a good support to a talking head and conveys a
very emotional component
·
What
kind of presenter are you? Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? Steve Jobs used to use a
clean or blank background for example. On the contrary Bill Gate tend to use a
more crowded powerpoint presentations
·
Presenters
who “abuse” powerpoing tend to use it as a prompter, handouts or data dumps.
This is not what powerpoint was designed to do.
·
Powerpoint
slides are not the presentation – the presenter is the presentation and the PPT
slides are there to back up the presenter
·
Participants
need to focus on the presenter, not on the slides.
Let’s use it as best we can
·
Before developing a powerpoint presentation, you
usually think about: number of slides, colours and font size. What you should
be focusing on is the story instead of the technicalities
·
The presenter needs to keep to one clear message all
the time. Think about the learner and how much information can the learner
digest information - What does the learner need to take away?
·
What is the subject, what matters to you?
Developing a Powerpoint
presentation
·
First step:
step away from the computer to do your planning
·
Second step: work out who is your audience?
·
Third step: decide what role are you playing?
Think like a designer –
like an artist
·
Reduce the noise: use the billboard principles
·
Use colours appropriately – get the right combination
·
Be very aware of your font size – 54 or more is
appropriate – the bigger the better
·
Fonts: be aware that too many fonts can be
distracting
·
Use of wide space – very powerful
·
Go easy on animations – use them very sparsely. One
animation per presentation
·
Avoid cheesy clipart – people prefer real photos –
if you must use clipart, keep a
consistent style
·
Charts: are very powerful and a good visual
interpretation for data and information
Slide Makeovers
·
Use one picture or combine that picture with text
·
Assist participants to make an emotional connection
with your presentation
·
Never leave any participant with a problem and
without a solution – resources and links
·
Guide participants to the right information
·
Keep the key points in case we are not able to use
images
·
The visual component will carry the information more
powerfully than words
·
There are always three main documents: the
presentation (PPT visual aid) to create the emotional impact, the presenter’s
notes and the handouts.
Next Meeting 17th October 2012 at
9:30 am – 12:30 pm at WSCF –
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