Sue Waters Blog

Yes I know Mlearn 2007 conference was sooooo last week (I’m now at WA E-Learning Conference) but I have to share the story of people like Simon Brown, from my network, who did not attend the conference, but felt a sense of “being there” through the blog posts, flickr photos, twitter, Skype, wiki sites and [...]

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To be honest I did feel that John Larkin was being a bit harsh when he said “Enough of the “world changing” five minute videos and please do not pad out your presentations with one video after another during a keynote at a conference unless you were the author of the included video(s).” But [...]

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Well todays the day! Now the countdown has begun for the presentation on social networking for NSW Learnscope. The trouble with social networking is it is really hard “to get” social networking and the incredible value of a global community helping one another unless you are “already in that space”.
Most of the participants [...]

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Today I did my Video in E-learning” for e-Tips n Tools for the 2007 Australian E-learning Networks using a virtual classroom (Elluminate) with +60 participants from Australia, Canada and Chile.
The guidelines for the session were make it interactive, hands on and designed for people new to use of video. I decided to go [...]

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Well I know some of my readers are feeling pleased that I am busy at the moment – so they can catch up with reading my blog but my apologies to those waiting for me to finish my post series on the use of Web 2.0 with students! I will continue soon!
But I’ve been really [...]

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I have agreed to do an online session (using Elluminate) on “Video in E-learning” for e-Tips n Tools for the 2007 Australian E-learning Networks.
Mine is a “how to” session on video, for one hour, and I have to keep in mind these sessions are aimed towards beginners. Oh did I mention they have [...]

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Last week I posted on how:

Nancy White made me into a bullet-less person (no bullets allowed in PowerPoint presentations)
Vicki Davis and Gabriela Grosseck inspired me to go Presentation 2.0

Now that I have let my imagination inspire me, learnt how to locate photos in the creative commons section of Flickr and changed the [...]

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My obsession has now moved from no bullets allowed to no boring PowerPoint template can be used (calm – it only applies to me – so far). After giving Presentation 2.0 a try for my BarCamp session I could no longer live with the old way.
My obsessive personality is tiring. The good news [...]

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Ever since I went to Nancy White’s presentation last year I have not been able to use bullet points in PowerPoint presentations. Why? Because she told us bullets are out. It has become so bad that if I walk past someone at work using bullet points I will push them off their own machine, [...]

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