cswe+group

**__CSWE (Certificate of Spoken and Written English) Group__ This is a nationally accredited program designed to assist people from non-English speaking backgrounds.**
For practical reasons we have divided our group into two seperate curriculum areas. While this curriculum looks at reading and writing as assessment tasks it also has a stong emphasis on oral assessments. So this group is interested in researching how to upload students oral assessment into the computer and use these for on line validation. We will also be validating written assessments online.


 * Wendy Tanner** Wendy is an ESL tutor and also co-ordinates the ESL program at Coffs Coast Community College. She has enjoyed learning about the uses of ICT in the classromm, and in her own life, in previous Learnscope projects, and is pleased to be part of this team, exploring ways of sharing sound files for moderation purposes.

Maggie is an ESL tutor at Coffs Coast Community College - working with migrants and refugees using CSWE. 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**

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.
 * Liz Hogan.** -

OUR FEARLESS LEADER: JANETTE JONES
Janette teaches at Port Macquarie and Wauchope Community Colleges. She's been lucky enough to have participated in many different learnscope projects that has exposed her to web page design, Movie Maker, Wikis, blogs and Powerpoint applications for resource development and sharing. This project will help us develop a strategy for validating assessment over a diverse geographical area.

//__OUR FIRST FACE TO FACE SESSION__//

This was held at Coffs Coast Community College because that is where most people work. We had a chat session with Alex Hayes regarding investigating an online oral assessment library repository. We also discussed the equipment we might require to successfully download students oral assessments into the computer for validation online. These are some of the comments from the team members: [|http://learnscope.podOmatic.com/entry/eg/2007-07-08T20_41_28-07_00]

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 * //__FOLLOW UP ONLINE SESSIONS__//**

I've booked a number of sessions for us to trial online validation using text based tasks and eventually speech. These are the times for our sessions July 27th, August 10th & 24th and September 7th and 21st. We'll meet in the learnscope illuminate room and I'll post the address soon. At our first online session we discussed how we wanted to conduct the online validation. We decided that we want to do it totally online and would like to trial sound. We tested uploading a protopage with sound but while we could all see the page we couldn't all hear it at the same time. Since the Liz has developed a way for us to all link into the learnscope discovere room and log in as facilitators and upload the documents we require.

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