Online Technology PD

There's no point making wonderful, new technology available if people aren't familiar with it and don't know how to use it. Professional Development for staff (particularly those involved in teaching) has been cited frequently as a much-needed aspect of this project.

Formal Professional Development Activities

It is planned to arrange some initial demonstration sessions at each campus which all staff will be welcome to attend. These may be followed by smaller, more-focused, practical sessions throughout this project as various new tools and services are trialled and made available.

However, the intended plan for long-term PD of staff is to ultimately have experts or coordinators available in each area (and preferably on each campus) who will be able to provide this PD to their colleagues (or arrange it). Hence, the current request is for those staff who are interested in playing such a role to get in touch (please also nominate the type of technology. e.g. e-learning, website editing, multimedia, online web tools).

All organised demos or PD activities will be added to the calendar.

Technology Sandboxes & Trials

During the course of this project, various types of technology and online services will be made available for familiarization, trialling and professional development. These tools & "sandboxes" will be linked from here when available. They will include blogs, forums, wikis, e-learning applications, web tools and much more. Please add your requests.

Till ours are live, you can try the following demo sites:

> Opensource CMS - demo various portals, blogs, wikis, e-learning systems, etc.

Individual Learning Resources

Some web-based resources that may be of interest to staff will be added here.

> 23 things you can do on the web - familiarize yourself with some of the new websites & tools

> Web 2.0 directory - a comprehensive directory of the new web services & sites available

> Web 2.0 video tour - a short video about the evolution of the web