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NEW AND EMERGING WAYS OF WORKING WITH CGEA / CSWE** Georgie Faircloth - manager (at) ccae.nsw.edu.au Janette Jones - janette.jones (at) portace.com.au
 * Manager:-**
 * Facilitator:**

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 * FINAL REPORT**

Click here to hear Janette's feedback on the project

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This project aims to: o Strengthen the existing on-line network between Literacy & ESL Trainers o **Introduce** new Literacy & ESL trainers to the on-line network and e-learning methods o Develop new assessment tasks and methods in preparation for the new Certificate in General Education for Adults (CGEA) o Moderate & Validate CGEA and CSWE assessments in on-line meetings & forums o Develop innovative, responsive and flexible modes of course delivery for ESL & Literacy Students participationg in CSWE & CGEA. o Provide professional development for ESL & Literacy trainers, which will cross regions and isolation from distance. o Develop CGEA distance and e-learning, learning and assessment tasks for “Life Works”,( a Community Colleges NSW project, currently under development, which includes Certificate I in CGEA)
 * PROJECT SUMMARY**

Wiki Space
 * CONTEXT**

ESL & Literacy Trainers on the Mid North Coast English Language Students English Literacy Students Potential Participants in "LifeWorks" Distance Education for Cert I in CGEA
 * TARGET GROUPS**


 * TEAM**
 * Lyn Freeman** teaches at Port Macquarie Community College, currently with beginner literacy, workplace literacy skills, study skills and doing a course to train volunteer literacy tutors. It takes a while for me to feel comfortable enough with new technologies to work with them with students, but I realise it's in their best interest to do so, so I'll press on.


 * Wendy Tanner** teaches a CSWE3 class at Coffs Coast Community College, and also co-ordinates the ELLN program there. She has been involved with previous learnscope projects and is always looking at ways to increase her expertise with IT and exploring ways to use it in the classroom, and to network with other practicioners. Using it to moderate will also be useful, especially for rural colleges like Coffs Harbour. - **Regional Event 3**


 * Marg Kernahan** - Marg teaches at Camden Haven Community College and has worked on adult Literacy/ Numeracy programs for 15 years, after years of school teaching in Special Education departments. Marg also teaches at TAFE and does casual teaching at high schools.The new training package for CGEA is of special interest to her, and learning ways to network with other teachers and meet online. Keeping up with new technology skills is a challenge and she is pushing on!

She is interested in the possibilities of strengthening and expanding networks for moderating student tasks - and learning the technology needed to upload and share sound files of spoken student competencies - a new venture.
 * Maggie Tate**- Maggie is an ESL tutor at Coffs Coast Community College - working with migrants and refugees using CSWE.


 * Liz Hogan**. - Liz teaches the Certificate in Written and Spoken English and Beginner Computer at Coffs Coast Community College. She loves her computer and experimenting with new technology. She is looking forward to learning different ways to use technology for moderation. - **Regional Event 3**


 * Rosina Smith**- teaches the CGEA at Taree Community College. e-learning is new to me and my students, who are wary of anything to do with computers, so getting them involved will be quite a challenge - but I'm sure a worthwhile one in the long run!


 * Ruth Crossman**- Teaches a variety of Literacy based courses at Taree Community College, including ESL, Reading and Writing Classes and Creative Writing. Ruth finds technology daunting, but through the support and guidance of patient mentors has been able to learn computer skills and wants to keep up with the language and developments in computer based literacy learning.

CGEA page -information about the participants
 * Linda Fulton**- teaches ESOL at Taree Community College. E-learning has been quite a challenge for me but I am keen to integrate it into my teaching.

click here to LINK TO ASSESSMENT TASKS-bank of validated tasks

Here is a link to a great podcasting HOWTO: [|PODCASTING WORKSHOP BY MICHAEL COGHLAN]
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KEY DATES First face to face session June 15th at Camden Haven Community College 9-4 After being introduced to edna, learnscope and wiki sites, we selected 2 Units from the new CGEA Curriculum, VBQU127- Work with Time, Money and Directions in simple, everyday situations( Intro. Level) and VBQU131- Plan and Undertake a Project (Level 1). We selected a number of possible projects and will each devise a set of assessment strategies and moderate their effectiveness. We are "meeting" again on discovere on Monday 25th June and 23rd July to discuss assessment ideas for the two units we've chosen.
 * //__CGEA ONLINE CHAT SESSION__//**

20th August-Janette's "Plan and Undertake a Project VBQU131". . Both the last two validation sessions were very useful - firstly learning how to overcome technical difficulties in the Discovere room and secondly learning how to validate an assessment task. We now have two great validated tasks to share with others. Looking forward to the next one on the 3rd! 3rd September - Rosina and Linda will be doing the Money side of VBQU127, 1-2.30
 * 13th August-Margaret's maths task- directions in VBQU127 "Work with Time, Money and Directions in simple, everyday situations(Intro)"

17th September - Lyn will be presenting the time part of VBQU127 in consultation with Ruth, 1-2.30

chat sessions link** http://www.compued.com.au/discovere/learnscope2007/ Wiki, emailing, discover e, blog Initial skills audit, followed by individual learning plans A bank of online validated assessment task A group of experienced online networking teachers Sharing resources through moodles, Wikis, Photostories, podcastes, blog English language and Literacy teachers on the mid North Coast Links in Wiki. Sharing resources via the WIKI. The ability to validate online. So far our group have started to progress towards our goals. We have developed a number of different networking arrangements. Two different curriculum groups meet once a fortnight on line and discuss different assessment tasks/student responses. This way we are able to achieve online something we that previously involved greater time and financial cost before. The greatest difficulty has been that there have been a small number of members who haven’t been involved so I have recently followed that up with a further face to face session and hope they will be able to join us soon. We have also been able to tap into the resources available through a number of other learnscope groups who are doing the same thing. One of their members has also joined in with our group. A number of people have been introduced to WIKIs for the first time and seen the possibilities for using themselves and for their students. We have all posted something into the WIKI. Everyone has posted something into the blog and this has documented our learning journey. [|Our blog] Some people have also joined into an on line podcasting instruction and then made their own podcasts as a result. Our podcast [|http://learnscope.podOmatic.com/entry/eg/2007-07-08T20_41_28-07_00] [|http://portmacquariecommunitycollege.podOmatic.com] Flickr photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/058/show/ The projects journey is detailed in our blog [|our elearning learning journal]
 * //__CSWE ONLINE CHAT/VALIDATION SESSIONS__//**
 * //July 26th-//** Planning future validation sessions- **3-5pm //August 28th, 25th September// chat sessions link** http://www.compued.com.au/discovere/learnscope2007/
 * SHARING KNOWLEDGE**
 * WORK BASED LEARNING STRATEGIES**
 * ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES**
 * CLIENT / INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT**
 * IMPACTS ON LEARNERS / CLIENTS**
 * REPORTING MID PROJECT**
 * END OF PROJECT REPORT**