Launched the THRAPS wikispace at our Team meeting in Coffs last night

Our Retail teachers had a meeting last night and I showed them the THRAPS wikispace and the Retail wiki and useful links etc. The team was quite interested in this information. It was great to see.

Commercial Cookery Group is Bloggin'

I recently presented a elearning presentation to the Commercial Cookery Project Team.
I created them a blog and they have been engaging with it. I'm so excited! They were also given quick reference guides on eLearning for future reference.

New Feature!!

I've just tried a poll feature. It's just to the right of this post. Please vote it would be great to see how many people who read this blog vote on my new poll feature. This poll feature could be used for businesses to poll their customers and teachers to poll their students etc.

Virtual Tour with Jo and Sean

I have just been on a virtual tour of second life with Jo and Sean who are exploring virtual worlds.

We visited a US government site which had great features like a weather demo and more very educational. We went to Rome and discovered ancient items and information here they replay ancient events that would be so interesting to watch especially if your studying ancient Rome.
We also checked out the TAFE Hairdressing salon wow! It looks so good I must go back and get a new look. The Learnscope lounge was good to visit it is amazing how you can create these great places. My favourite place was the Library I will definitely go back there so I can explore their information.

In summary it was a great group experience, well organised and I would certainly suggest anyone to take one of these tours well done to Jo and Sean :)

Exploring Second Life

I've been exploring again. Second Life is so exciting! I want to start my own retail store. I need money to start building things. I can see that students could do virtual work placement and develop customer merchandising and service skills.

During induction day I told my students about second life and they were very interested in it and thought it was pretty cool.

My Flickr

Today I thought I'd explore Flickr. Alex emailed me a link where Tourism and Hospitality have a Flickr collection which shows pictures of students, teachers and avatars involved in using different technologies in learning.

So I thought I'd start one and I look forward to using this with my students and colleagues. I must talk to our fashion teachers as I think they could use Second Life with their students as well, the only problem is access is blocked at TAFE. This probably needs to be addressed in some way as students need to have access to these sites. On my wiki I have a link to a movie and it won't play at TAFE as it is blocked, the movie is about wound healing and it's great for Pharmacy Assistants but they have to view it at home or in the workplace.

Thanks for your comments to my last post maybe you might like to leave a comment on access to Second Life at TAFE?

My Second Life!

Yes I am leading a double life now. I have been exploring Second Life. In this virtual world my name is Adnil Aabye, so if you are in Second Life add me to your friends and we can catch up. I met Alex The Learning Technologies Support Officer at NCI TAFE and she showed me around some places to visit. It was fun! I am mainly looking for opportunities that I can use for class and to share experiences with my colleagues. It's certainly fun once you get the hand of it.