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Hosted by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), this FREE three day national online conference, will be held on Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th June 2011. The conference will showcase e-learning and e-technology through a series of web-conferencing presentations and short and snapy lunch-time EXPO sessions. Participants will hear how vocational education and training (VET) practitioners, training providers and businesses are using e-learning pedagogy, e-tools and e-technologies to develop and deliver new and flexible training options.

Ed Tech Moment is designed for classroom teachers to get some simple ideas for integrating technology tools into their classroom.

Neuroscience has shown that our brains are plastic and that education, gaming and the use of technology can change our brains' connectivity, function and structure. (1, 2) But learning is more than just biology - it is affected by our learning environment and the people with whom and from whom we learn. So how do you take what neuroscience reveals about the plastic, learning brain and combine it with educational research, expertise and common sense? Klevar, in association with Flinders University, are offering you the chance to explore this with Dr Paul Howard-Jones of the University of Bristol, researcher and author of "Introducing Neuroeducational Research: Neuroscience, Education and the Brain from Contexts to Practice".

The third largest Lutheran church organization in America with membership around 400,000.  Our training efforts support users here at the headquarters building in Milwaukee as well as across the US and the world. Our Moodle site is WELS.net University.  We have been using Moodle for about a year and a half to support primarily our technology system training efforts.  We do a lot of in-person training classes on our custom systems and post companion support materials online in Moodle.  In addition, we have been developing stand alone training modules for web based training.  Finally we have made use of the forum tool in Moodle as a communication vehicle for our various system user groups.  I elaborated on this in another forum post. If you are interested, you may view a live sample course that is publicly accessible.http://university.wels.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=63  It exists to support member congregations who sign up for web site hosting through our hosting vendor. .

A resource site for History that incorporates technology.

"Technology-based forces of "disruptive innovation" are gathering around public education and will overhaul the way K-12 students learn-with potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools, according to an upcoming book that draws parallels to disruptions in other industries." - quote directly from article

Great source to explain Web 2.0 technology to teachers.

provides over 20,000 learning materials categorised into seven main areas: Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology\n, Social Sciences.

A Great site with a huge collection of Moodle Resources

Moodle comes replete with blogs, forums, RSS feeds, wikis and more that enable it to be seen as an "absolute good" that opens the door, that enables powerful ideas to slay the fears our IMHO - slay the fears that leaders hold. In many schools, it can become the technology that ensures communication, collaboration, and global learning do become the predominant learning task, without losing that academic focus.

"There is nothing that beats mind maps when it comes to increasing one's retention rates. Mind maps enable our minds to visually process information creating thus strong neural pathways to hold the learned information for an extended period of time"

Write up of the inaugural SA Moodle Meetup 2010 with summaries of sessions, links to resources discussed, etc.

The long-awaited day is finally here: Moodle 2.0 has officially been released in a production-ready version. ith better e-portfolio support, community hubs where educators can share courses, centralised databases for file storage, new features to explore, major improvements on existing features - will everyone be ditching 1.9x faster than you can say Moodle? Errr, not quite THAT fast.