Stephen+Griffith

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Hi, I work mainly in the TANI Business Services area, currently in Training and Assessment (Cert IV and Diploma).

My main learning tech experience is using Janison (Cert IV and Dip TAA), Protopage with Box.net (where I’ve been dumping everything for the past few years!), Jing, Survey Monkey, Delicious and miscellaneous Web 2.0 tools. I’m presently on a steep learning curve with Moodle and have dabbled in Centra, Toolboxes, Wikis, Blogs, Twitter, Yammer and ARED.

It’s looking like my mentees will come from three or four different groups, with a popular need being for Moodle and embedding other tools into Moodle.

**//Updates//**
eg Tables in a Wiki :-) || Have asked all enquirers to nominate their 'project' or intended outcomes which is thinning the crowd a little. || There are a few novices, and more than the recommended 6 in total, but the number includes pairs and a group of 3 with some good support 'on the side'. || Other highlights in the last week or two... - Deb's RPL Moodle site is almost ready to go live! - Michael's user interface is looking great! - Marisa has launched her forum idea with encouraging initial results. She also facilitated her first Centra session like a professional! She therefore wins the prize as first to actually engage with students in some new way! No fear! - There's also some new 'converts' to Delicious as a great tool. || As a bi-product of their new e-learning/Moodle activities, several mentees have now started up dialogues with colleagues in the other institutes and plans are expanding! Deb's RPL Moodle is live and she has 39 participants already actively engaged (from all over SA!). ||
 * //August 09// ||<  ||< Off to a great start! Two days of learning, networking, exploring options.
 * //August 09// ||<  ||< Off to a great start! Two days of learning, networking, exploring options.
 * //August 16// ||<  ||< Mentees plentiful but some just want to learn (Moodle for example) without an actual purpose/application in mind now!
 * //August 24// ||<  ||< Mentees now confirmed. They come from Retail, TAA, Business Admin and IT so I should have plenty of variety!
 * August 31 ||  || Have now launched the program with all mentees. Had second meeting with some. Very encouraging to see how much some have done already!! There is much enthusiasm and a real willingness to try new things. Even the 'complete novices' are taking big leaps... and loving it!! I hope all this activity doesn't crash the Moodle servers! ||
 * //September 9// ||  || Activity continues (output varies as predicted). Some tendencies to load lots of content into Moodle without thinking about student engagement, navigation, etc. All are receptive to the ideas being floated ... eg use of Books, use of icon or photo directories, use of quizzes, messages, forums, video and audio. One has experimented with a forum in class for the first time and has her first Centra meeting as Facilitator next week! ||
 * //September 17// ||  || [[image:Jacqui,_Des,_Peter_web.JPG width="186" height="142" align="left"]]No boring Moodle site here! Jacqui (left) is out of control! Hungry for ideas to make Moodle interesting, easy and engaging, she is trying anything that's suggested and still looking for more.
 * October 22 ||  || Two weeks of Term 4 gone already and there's still plenty happening!
 * November 10 ||  || One project finalized! Well done, Deb! A few minor alterations and a bit of fine tuning and the RPL Moodle site is working well (over 40 'enrolled'). Mixed progress elsewhere as the end of the year bottleneck takes its toll! Some excellent progress with the TAA Moodle sites but everyone now realizes how much work is involved! To get past the plain 'resource repository' Moodle format takes some effort and persistence. Video clips and flash objects are being embedded, formative self-marking assessments have been added. Inter-institute collaboration continues for the retail and business admin teams. ||
 * November 23 ||  || It's really encouraging to watch as people "sell" themselves on the benefits and potential of various e-tools! Apart from aiding and abetting in a rapid increase in the number of Moodle Maniacs in TAFESA, I've witnessed the uptake of Delicious as a useful tool to organize all the newly discovered web sites/resources. Hot Potatoes, Wikis, Slideshare, YouTube, Jing and other tools are also on the list. The challenge now is that the questions being asked of the mentor are much more advanced than those of two months ago! Mentees are not the only ones who grow and develop in this program - my "homework" load has increased lately!!! ||