2007_026

Welcome to South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE Employment Preparation Wikispace. = =

=THE PREP ROOM=

This is a **collaborative tool where everyone can edit** - It's a space where we can share ideas, resources, issues, and explore using social software on the web.

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=**BUILDING CAPABILITY IN LLN PRACTITIONERS**= code **(AKA THE PREP ROOM)**

code PROJECT MANAGER Liz Renshaw, liz.renshaw@tafensw.edu.au PROJECT CO-FACILITATORS : Liz Renshaw and Gregor MacKenzie ( gregor.mackenzie@tafensw.edu.au This project will increase the capabilities of teachers in Employment Preparation to use new and emerging technologies to deliver a more flexible range of learning options for students. The teachers will pilot the use of social software, mobile technologies (I-River MP3 players, PDAs/ IPAQ, i-Pods and notebooks) and web conferencing.
 * SUMMARY**


 * CONTEXT** Team members are Literacy, Language and Numeracy practitioners, working in Employment Preparation faculty in South Western Sydney Institute TAFE. There are members located at each of the 9 college sites. The participants work with youth and/ or mature age learners currently enrolled in Adult Basic Education and English Speakers of Other Languages programs. Students are from a variety of backgrounds but all are experiencing LLN barriers to accessing education and training options.

The target groups are youth and mature age learners from disadvantaged backgrounds with low level literacy,numeracy and language levels. List your team members names here. SWSI Emp Prep Learnscope Induction Day - 5 June Adobe Connect Training Events - 27 June and 28 June Team Meeting - 25 July - Visit from Alex Hayes Mid project Report - September Team Meeting - 25 September - Visit from Ron Cordoba on Moodle Technologies Market Day - 27 September Learnscope Regional Forum - September Team Meeting - 25 October - Special guests day Project final report - 20 November
 * TARGET GROUPS**
 * TEAM**
 * KEY DATES**

http://nswlearnscope.wikispaces.com/2007_026 http://swsrportal.tafensw.edu.au/sites/EmployPrep/default.aspx [|swsi wikispace for learnscope]
 * SHARING KNOWLEDGE**

Replace this text with some of the ways in which you will share your knowledge of individual team members and whole of team. Include here to links to your teams websites, blogs, wiki's, forums etc. The initial expression of interest to join the project used an online tool to collect preliminary information concerning individuals needs, and interests. It also gathered information on previous learscope engagement and people who wished to be group mentors. The teams knowledge will be further captured at initial meeting through team tools/activities to collect and analyse existing skills and e learning capabilities. A number of action learning groups will be formed to support participants in using new knowledge and skills within their teaching/learning context. Individual groups will use reflective tools to identify,analyse and evaluative their individual and group learnings. To faciliate the sharing of expertise a series of 'tell and teach' sessions will be conducted by different locations by different sets of participants. The social sofware tools and mobile technologies will be trialled by participants with the learners, and the learning from this activity as well as student feedback will be compiled into report which will be available on the team wiki. Adobe connect will be used to faciliate action learning groups ( small group) meetings and learnscope whole team meetings. Training will be provided.
 * WORK BASED LEARNING STRATEGIES**

Anticipated outcomes for target group and project participants is building competence and confidence with using new and emerging technologies in teaching and learning. Increased communication and sharing of knowledge across the different sites within the Faculty. Building a shared knowledge base of ways to use new and emerging technologies in different contexts with different learners. Increased use of technologies to provide responsive and flexible learning options.
 * ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES**

The project will take a collaborative approach and involve learners in a trial of new and emerging technologies linked to their learning needs and capability. The trial will survey learners at beginning, mid point and end concerning perceptions of usefulness, relevance, and effectiveness of tools to facilitate learning in LLN contexts. These tools and learning contexts will be mapped to the individual learning plans. Organisational members will be engaged in project through participation, project briefs and accessing the team wiki.
 * CLIENT / INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT**

Evidence will be provided through podcasts and digital story telling. Images will be collected through the project of participants and learners engaged in using technologies. A comparision of participants capability with new and emerging technologies at the project commencement will be compared with results at the end of the project. 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]
 * IMPACTS ON LEARNERS / CLIENTS**
 * REPORTING MID PROJECT**

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;
 * END OF PROJECT REPORT**