Nancy White Workshops

This is a rare opportunity to participate in two half-day workshops with the dynamic Nancy White from Full Circle Associates. If you work with groups, these workshops are a must. You'll learn the latest techniques about to be published in a new book: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities.

Date: 9 November
Venue: SMC Conference & Function Centre, 66 Goulburn St, Sydney
Cost: $250 for 1 workshop or $195 per workshop if you attend both workshops
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(Cancellation policy: Before 31 October 50% refund. After 31 October no refunds - substitute welcome.)

About Nancy White
Nancy is a "Jill of all trades," using her facilitation, communications marketing, and leadership abilities for over 25 years in a wide range of settings: broadcast media, not-for-profit and business communities. She started Full Circle Associates, a collaboration and communications consultancy, to provide assistance to non-profits and businesses and help them connect through online and offline strategies. Nancy has a particular interest in the application of online interaction tools and techniques to virtual teams, communities of practice, in international community development, and with all types of learning communities.
Recently, Nancy has added graphic facilitation and other visual approaches to her toolkit and has been developing the concept of community technology stewardship with Etienne Wenger and John Smith. Some of this will be shared in their forthcoming book Stewarding Technology for Communities of Practice.

Workshop 1: 9am - 12pm
Stewarding Technology for Communities
Do you use technology to support groups and communities? Are you a leader or community facilitator who is tasked with picking and using these tools? Come explore useful practices to pick, set up and use those technologies. Work hands on to assess what your community needs and explore your options. Work in small groups to visit existing communities, test tools and finish with a plan for your ongoing work. This workshop is grounded on the work Nancy has done with Etienne Wenger and John Smith as part of their new book "Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities." It is best suited for people who are leaders, facilitators or technology supporters for existing or planned groups, communities or networks. You will work with your community's needs and issues. Participants will be given selected chapters from the book.

Workshop 2: 1pm - 4pm
Graphic recording/facilitation
Are you the kind of person who loves working with groups, who is interested in finding new ways to apply your listening and recording skills, and who learns best from doing and reflecting? Are you intrigued about the role of visuals in group interactions and learning, especially in the context of whole systems change methods such as The World Cafe, Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space? This workshop is designed for a group of people to play and learn together to develop their practice in graphic recording and facilitation in the context of group processes. Graphic recording at its most basic is capturing what is happening in a group or presentation. We’ll take a glimpse into the world of graphic recording, provide time to experiment and play with a range of tools and techniques, and explore how they can support a variety of whole systems change methods.

More workshops with Nancy
Nancy will be conducting a pre-conference workshop at the Learning Technologies Conference in Mooloolaba 18 November - more information available here.

Innotecture will also be running workshops with Nancy in Sydney, Melbourne & Canberra – more information available here.

Videoconference Workshops: WA

Broadreach Services is hosting a series of workshops delivered by Carol Skyring, LearnTel.

Register below and an invoice will be emailed to you for payment by cheque, EFT or credit card.

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Register for: Teaching via Video Conference - 1 hour taster (11 May @12pm-1pm)
This is a FREE videoconference (you meet dial-in costs) however as places are limited you need to register to reserve your place. We will send you dial-in details.


Register for: Video Conferencing & Collaboration - Tips, Tricks and Techniques (13 May) Download the flyer


Register for: Introduction to Teaching and Collaboration Via Video Conference (14 May) Download the flyer

Videoconference with George Siemens

Have George Siemens in your videoconference room for 90 minutes - live. Also join the online discussion forum before & after the event. He will address the topic:

Extending the classroom: Open content and open teaching
Information and communication technology has fundamentally changed the relationship between teacher and learner. The teacher is no longer the sole provider and mediator of educational resources. High quality content - often produced by prominent institutions and renowned academics - is at the finger tips of anyone with an internet connection. Additionally, learners can participate in learning networks and online communities, also reducing the central role educators have in the conversation around curriculum.

How do these two trends change the roles of teacher and learner? This session will explore how trends in ICT impact education through the lens of social learning theory. Discussion will focus on emerging metaphors and models for learning in a globally networked world.

Date: 10 November 2008
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm AEDST (Sydney time) Check local time.
Cost: $495 AUD per site (You may have as many participants as you like at your site but we recommend no more than 20 for best interaction)
Join via ISDN or IP


George Siemens is a prominent writer and researcher on learning, networks, technology and organizational effectiveness in digital environments. He is the author of Knowing Knowledge, an exploration of how the context and characteristics of knowledge have changed and what it means to organizations today. Siemens is also Associate Director, Research and Development, with the Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba and founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc., a learning lab focused on helping organizations develop integrated learning structures to meet the needs of global strategy execution. He is an international speaker and consultant, detailing the changes universities, colleges, and corporations must make in order to address the challenges of an increasingly complex world. Siemens maintains elearnspace, Connectivism and Knowing Knowledge. Additional background information is available here.

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TeleSpan’s Third Annual Future of Conferencing Workshop: Discount for Aussies & Kiwis

LearnTel has organised a discount rate for Australian & New Zealand attendees at TeleSpan’s Third Annual Future of Conferencing Workshop
March 31 – April 1, 2008: Las Vegas, USA

Only $550 USD - Save $127 USD

Join international colleagues for the latest in the conferencing world. You will:

• See how Google is changing the face of conferencing and Unified Communications, as the most innovative user ever.
• Learn how Intel is quickly changing the basic architecture of collaboration, moving control right into the hands of customers.
• Witness how Cisco has successfully led the enterprise UC market; setting a trend that has carved over 20% of all minutes away from CSPs.
• Hear what UC services Skype and its partners are offering to well over 250 million subscribers.
• Understand how the Freeconference services are still holding on, not just in Iowa, but around the globe.
• Receive data from TeleSpan on the precise trends in the market, and hear TeleSpan’s forecasts.
• Join delegates from nearly every major CSP and product vendor in the conferencing, collaboration and UC marketplace.
• Observe demos of products and services just emerging from industry players that will break the playing field.

HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE $550 USD RATE & JOIN US:

1. Be an Australian or New Zealander!!!
2. Register your interest with LearnTel by completing the form below. This will allow us to communicate with you quickly & easily.
   
3. Once you do (2) you'll be immediately emailed a registration form to complete & return with payment details.
   
4. Book your airfares.
5. Book your accommodation through the TeleSpan Workshop website.
   
6. LearnTel will organise a few ‘extra-curricular’ activities & contact you with information.

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Charles Jennings Videoconference

Have Charles in your videoconference room for 90 minutes - live. Also join the online discussion forum before & after the event. He will address the topic:

Knowledge Transfer

Date: 23 August 2007

Time: 4.00-5.30pm AEST

Cost: $495 AUD per site

(You may have as many participants as you like at your site but we recommend no more than 20 for best interaction) Join via IP or ISDN.

Charles Jennings has one of the world's more interesting jobs. He is global head of learning for Reuters, the 150-year-old London-based news agency and information service. His job is to ensure that all of the company's 16,000 employees keep abreast of their jobs and the technologies and systems that ensure Reuters remains one of the world's foremost sources of information and one of the largest providers of content to the internet. Every day Reuters publishes 8 million words in 18 languages.

In Charles' view a simple transfer of knowledge is no longer appropriate for people working in 21st century organisations. We need to know less and learn more. We need to change our approach to learning. The new world challenges not only the dominant knowledge-transfer model of training, but also many of the traditional organisational training structures.

In the face of the digital onslaught, Charles believes that we need to re-visit some of our fundamental approaches to learning, to develop new learning strategies and operations that are more accountable, better prioritised, capable of adapting to change, and which make good use of technology.

Formal learning is also often not suited to "digital natives", the new generation in the workforce. When they started high school the web already existed. By the time they finished university they had seen the rise of Google, blogs, Wikipedia, Skype, podcasts, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Second Life and many other communication and learning tools.

Charles will discuss the challenges and opportunities that face us in catering for these new entrants into the workforce.

Register now as places are limited to 10 sites.

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George Siemens Videoconference

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Have George in your videoconference room for 90 minutes - live. Also join the online discussion forum before & after the event. He will address the topic:

In Relation to Knowledge

Teaching and learning have long dealt with certainty - knowledge that has been scrutinized and validated. The essence of knowledge, in this model, is organization and stringent discourse seeking to strip logic errors or fallacies. But what happens when knowledge is subject to networks and ecologies? When certainty is often replaced with "good enough" views of knowledge? This session will explore fundamental changes in how individuals interact with knowledge, detail implications, and suggest approaches and strategies for educators to consider in fostering discourse with learners (virtual or physical).

Date: 22 June 2007

Time: 9am - 10:30am AEST

Cost: $594 AUD per site (You may have as many participants as you like at your site but we recommend no more than 20 for best interaction)
Join via ISDN or IP

George Siemens is Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc., a learning lab focused on assisting organizations develop integrated learning structures to meet the needs of global strategy execution. He is the author of - Knowing Knowledge - an exploration of how the context and characteristics of knowledge have changed, and what it means to organizations today. He’s actively involved in research as Associate Director, Research and Development with the Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba.

Enamored with the potential of technology to transform learning and society, he’s convinced that existing educational perspectives need to be revised to meet the needs of "today's students". In addition to elearnspace, he also maintains the connectivism website (a site also devoted to creating a learning theory reflective of how learners learn today).

Register now as places are limited to 10 sites. Complete the details below to register your videoconference site. A Tax Invoice will be emailed to you.

Dr Randy Garrison & Dr Norm Vaughan, University of Calgary

Have Randy & Norm in your videoconference room for 90 minutes - live. Also join the online discussion forum before & after the event. They will address the topic:

Community of Inquiry: Framework for Blended Learning Design

While simple in concept, blended learning is complex in application and difficult to implement systematically. Despite the growing interest in blended courses, there are few frameworks and models that effectively guide the design of blended learning experiences. One such model, the community of inquiry, in which a community of learners forms the core of an educational experience aimed at higher-order learning, is especially promising.

Join colleagues in a videoconference to discuss the role of the community of inquiry framework in effectively guiding the design of blended learning. The session will address:

• CoI as the core of an educational experience
• Principles for constructing and maintaining a blended CoI
• Strategic initiatives to transform teaching and learning through blended learning
  

Date: 18 April 2007
Time: 10am - 11:30am AEST
Cost: $495 AUD per site (You may have as many participants as you like at your site but we recommend no more than 20 for best interaction.)

About the presenters

Dr. Randy Garrison is currently the Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre and a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. Dr. Garrison has published extensively on teaching and learning in higher, adult and distance education contexts. He is co-author of E-Learning in the 21st Century and Blended Learning in Higher Education (in press).

Dr. Norm Vaughan is the coordinator for the Inquiry and Blended Learning program in the Teaching & Learning Centre at the University of Calgary. In this position he coordinates course redesign projects and provides support for the Faculty and Graduate Student Teaching Certificate programs. Norm also teaches a number of undergraduate and graduate courses in educational technology and he is a member of the editorial boards for the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology. He is the co-author of Blended Learning in Higher Education.

Register now as places are limited to 10 sites.