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MANAGER** Andrea.Marigliano at tafensw.edu.au Industry Officer, TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute Paula.E.Williams at tafensw.edu.au Senior Education Officer, TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute Bronwyn.J.Davies at tafensw.edu.au Senior Education Officer, TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute Train and up-skill VTE teachers across a wide representation in the housing and building industries to the benefits of eLearning. This will be done by exploring the power of web 2.0 and mobile technologies to further enhance the need to collaborate more widely on the importance of environmentally sustainable designs (ESD). The need to educate teachers and students in the most up-to-date information about the current global warming and water conservation issues facing the Australian society is a must for a sustainable future. This change in thinking about building design and construction needs to begin with collaborative information sharing and the use of smart technologies rather than paper. The effectiveness of the project will be enhanced by the involvement of Industry Association representatives as participants. Within the building industry mneansures have been taken to audit acceptable housing forms known as GreenSmart guidelines that aim at reducing the influence on greenhouse emissions as well as conserving energy use and water. This project aims to discover, learn about and use more effective ways of communicating these eco sustainable guidelines and building designs into the VTE teaching repertoire. TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute (WSI) is a large, complex, decentralised eudcational Institute, employing approximately 1450 full-time staff and 2500 part-time staff. WSI delivers training and assessment services throughtout Western Sydney as well as state-wide, nationally and overseas to approximately 85 000 students each year. Learning is by classroom and distance delivery. //Learners/Clients// TAFE Students in all Engineering/Building and Architectural Industry. These students are key workers within the building sector in Western Sydney and further afield. Many of these students go on to become the business owners within the sector. //Community and environment// Based in the western suburbs of Sydney with huge growth in housing development the ESD impact is critical. environment is suburban, outer urban Sydney through to the Blue Mountains in an area of housing expansion. Working closely with the Building, Architectural and Housing Industry, the Institute plays a key role in training workers in the construction industry. Don Mason - Teacher Nirimba College Graeme Drew - Teacher Nirimba Colleges Prue Gibson - Teacher OTEN Industry Association representatives - min 2 As our Project Manager has recently taken over the role of Industry Officer from Rick Duynhoven (who designed the project) and until last Friday, knew nothing about LearnScope, our key dates will be agreed and uploaded after our first meeting to be held week ending 15 June. Create through **communities of practice** a professional development learning space using live journals (wikis and blogs) WSI Architectual and building teachers will up-skill their knowledge in the uses, features and functions of various Web 2.0 tools by: The learners will benefit from the increased knowledge and skills of the teachers developing interactive and dynamic learning environment. This will increase their interest in their chosen topic of study and broaden their access to information. The information and knowledge will be current and up-to-date as it will be collaborative built with real contributions from industry representatives, teachers and learners. The students will be able to participate through contributing to the blog site, interviews or doing audio podcasts, enabling them to share with teachers and fellow students their findings on a specific topic. Outcomes will be capture via daily posts and journal entries made by participants in the nested teams using wikispaces and blogs that capture new entries on the central blog’s blogroll via Bloglines. The evidence will be in the podcasts, vodcasts and syndication to related building industry communities websites and programs Industry Associations eg. HIA can contribute through their continuing education programs and industry experts can be guest speakers. It is important to engage industry members to provide a first hand account to students what changes are occurring within the industry and workplace. Replace this text with your URLs ( links ) when you have completed the requirements listed below. Midway through the project your team will be required to; Meet with a member of the NSW LearnScope Management team face-to-face. A podcast recording will be conducted during this meeting which captures your progress and reflections on your teams learning. These podcasts will be available via the [|NSW LearnScope podcast] Your team will be required to submit a 250 word Postcard From The Field for publication in the [|NSW LearnScope blog]. Note : This should be submitted in text form only and be accompanied by a link ( URL ) to an image in your own respective Flickr site. Replace this text with your URLs ( links ) when you have completed the requirements listed below. NSW LearnScope requires a final report that comprehensively details your teams project journey. This will include your teams findings, outcomes, client impacts and connections. Note : this component of the your project must be enabled for web production ie. it must be available to load to and / or be accessed via the internet. This report can take the following forms;
 * PROJECT TITLE
 * FACILITATOR**
 * SUMMARY**
 * CONTEXT**
 * TARGET GROUPS**
 * TEAM**
 * KEY DATES**
 * SHARING KNOWLEDGE**
 * Establish** **knowledge****-sharing network** (via action- learning), models for using social software in the delivery of VTE building programs that will assist in the continuous development of VTE practitioners in the building Industry
 * WORK BASED LEARNING STRATEGIES**
 * using bloglines to syndicate to the central 'enviro sustainable design' blog with links to [|www.greenhouse.gov.au] a Government initiative to improve housing design and the use of environmentally friendly materials. The australian Greenhouse Office manages the guildelines and policies.
 * Using wikispaces & blogs to BASIX certificate site which will provide constant updates which can be obtained online [|www.basixcertificatecentre.com.au]
 * Using blip.TV to bodcast industry groups on sustainable housing designs
 * Creating online social bookmarks using delicious and image libraries such as flickr
 * Interviews via podcasting using podomatic and webcasting using adobe connect
 * ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES**
 * CLIENT / INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT**
 * IMPACTS ON LEARNERS / CLIENTS**
 * Develop** practical skills on using the features and functions of the various open source social software applications
 * REPORTING MID PROJECT**
 * END OF PROJECT REPORT**
 * Podcast** - a 20-30 minute recording ( audio)which is a multi-voice conversation between team members, clients and industry representatives where appropriate.
 * Digital Story** - 20 -30 slides with audio
 * Blog Post** - a comprehensive ( detailed ) reflective summary of your teams journey with accompanying images
 * Multimedia production** - a video or Flash movie that brings together many differing aspects of your project into a production for easy view via the web.
 * Web Content** - a collection or portfolio of online data that has been brought together into a online summary of your projects journey. This site MUST be accessible for anyone via the internet.