Antony Kontellis UTS Blog

(the title was just to grab your attention Victoria so you could see this and some of my other new entries below. Thanks!).
I thought that seeing as we have the 2 week “break” (it isn’t really a break for me as I work full time so it’s moreso just no Uni after work!) it would [...]

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Rounding out my entries on new technologies relating to e-Learning today is Youtube.
Pretty much everyone knows what Youtube is (unless they’ve been living under a rock for the past few years). People use it for many different reasons….for example people can try to become “Internet celebrities”, and record companies often premiere their artists’ new songs and [...]

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Aside from discussions in my workplace and in our classes, I recently saw the 60 Minutes presentation on Second Life. I found it on youtube also:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ee-yjb9eJdI
 This presentation introduces the concept of Virtual Worlds, in particular Second Life, which I am personally rather skeptical of and find, in some cases, unhealthily addictive and downright strange. The [...]

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Throughout my searches during the group assignment, I came across a great blog on m-Learning which raises various different topics of interest in the e-Learning (and specifically m-Learning) field.
 This is the blog:
http://mlearningworld.blogspot.com/
Discovering this blog (and several others) led me to reach some new information I had been unfamiliar with….the idea of blogs as educational tools.
 I [...]

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Onetopic that interested me is the idea of using iPod’s in e/m-Learning. My thoughts on this are as follows:
A lot of people see iPod’s as a revolution, and probably just as many view them as the latest fad. However what many people from both these sides of the debate fail to recognise is what a [...]

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Having developed your focus of inquiry or area of interest, outline and add this to your weblog.
 My area of interest in relation to my case studies and group work was developed to focus on m-Learning (mobile learning).
I find the topic of m-Learning a particularly interesting facet of e-Learning because I feel that in the future [...]

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What is the current status of e-Learning?
Relate the general findings and comments to your industry:
How does your industry rate against the overall results?
Based on the readings within this task (links at bottom of this post), over the years it appears that while there has been an uptake in e-learnin, generally it is relatively low and [...]

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After the reading, what decisions do you expect organisations to address before they implement an e-Learning program?
article:
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Below are various categories and findings from the article and my knowledge
Needs analysis is required to develop experiences, attitudes, etc.
General Technology:

software people have on their PC’s
Synchronous – for people who don’t want to do e-Learning and not very [...]

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What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking allows internet users to store, tag, search within and share.
How could it be used in this subject?

Social bookmarking in this subject allows for tagging and easy reference of sites of value and significant. By using the communities tool, it can also assist in the [...]

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What is an e-Zine?
A magazine delivered in electronic form. Could be online-only or an online version or extension of a print publication
What is an e-Newsletter?
Commonly distributed through email or on blogs. It is a regular newsletter which is published online.
How do you judge their relevance?
Who published by
Where do you start searching?
Google, search engines, providers, etc
How [...]

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