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Event program

11.30am - 12 noon
> Registration and refreshments

12 noon - 1.30pm
> Presentation  Being There

1.30pm - 2.15pm
> Light Lunch

2.15pm - 4.15pm
> Interactive workshop Small Precious Web 2.0 Gems *


Event venue

Canberra Institute of Technology 
> Constitution Avenue, Reid


2007: National Speaker Tour Alan Levine

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Resources

Being There presentation
> audio recording
(unedited - Hobart, 15 Oct 07)
> slideshow


Small Precious Web 2.0 Gems workshop

Links to the following wiki pages:
> web gems
> web gems starters
> how to leave notes (instructions)



These resources and more are available from Alan's cogdogroo wikispace

CogDogRoo

For more information on Alan's speaking tour of Australia, visit his blog CogDogRoo

> blog post Tour Stop 4: Canberra ACT

Tour sponsors

The Alan Levine National Speaking Tour was organised and sponsored by the E-learning Networks Project of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework).

ACT Event: Friday 19 October 2007 (Tour Stop 4)

On Friday 19 October 2007 Alan Levine expert on Web 2.0 technologies and virtual worlds, visited Canberra for 'Stop 4' of his National Speaker Tour.

Alan conducted a presentation titled Being There and an interactive workshop titled Small Precious Web 2.0 Gems for vocational education and training (VET) practitioners from around the ACT.


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About Alan

Alan Levine is the Director of Member & Technology Resources for the New Media Consortium (NMC). This not-for-profit consortium comprises over 200 learning-focused organisations exploring the use of new media and technologies. NMC is currently using a campus on Second Life (a 3D online virtual world) to explore educational gaming and the potential of virtual world environments.  Before Alan's position with NMC, he spent 14 years promoting technology for the Maricopa Community Colleges, where he hosted a web server back in 1993. Alan was a key contributor to significant efforts such as Ocotillo, a faculty-led initiative that promotes innovation and drives change, and the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX), a virtual warehouse of innovation that pioneered the use of RSS in syndicating learning object content. Alan works from home in Phoenix, Arizona, and continues to publish his work on CogDogBlog.

Event topics

Presentation: Being There (75 mins duration)
How do we deal with the never ending onslaught of new technology, how can we face this brave new world without a sense of dread? "Keeping up" is a myth, and the way of dealing with this is creating, sustaining, and being in your extended networks of friends, colleagues, etc. Likewise, one cannot readily assess the value of new technology from the outside "looking in". This presentation will lead you through a range of examples of ways to practice more "being there-ness" so you can face technology with a child like sense of wonder.

Workshop:  Small, Precious Web 2.0 Gems (2 hrs duration)
Try something new! There are many poster children thought of when you say "Web 2.0". Flickr. del.icio.us. Digg. YouTube. Google Anything. But there are literally hundreds of other free, useful applications available for you to use. In this workshop, we will work from a framework of those giant lists of Web 2.0 applications, and spend some time exploring ones we do not know so well. Perhaps there is something for you in ToonDo, MapWing, Fauxto, Numbler, dotSub... Participants will document what they find in a public wiki to be shared in later workshops.