New TaLe at ICVET Learning Powerhouse 2006

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Presenters Sue BeveridgeJanet BurstallTim Hand

• New TaLe at ICVET Learning Powerhouse 2006

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New TaLe at ICVET Learning Powerhouse 2006

• Session Outcomes
• As a result of this session participants will
  have an increased understanding of
• the latest version of www.tale.edu.au
• its aims
• its products and services
• its support for quality teaching and learning.

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New TaLe at ICVET Learning Powerhouse 2006
How do you currently?
Discover
Showcase
Exchange
Communicate
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Exchange

• With whom do you share your own work in creating
• learning resources?
• ? no one ? my section in my college
  ? my institute ? TAFE NSW ?
  national or other VET contacts
• assessment strategies?? no one ? my
  section in my college ? my institute
  ? TAFE NSW ? national or other VET
  contacts
• teaching activities?? no one ? my
  section in my college ? my institute
  ? TAFE NSW ? national or other VET contacts

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Discover
TaLe www.tale.edu.au

• In my current practice I regularly seek digital
  content through
• Google
• EdNA
• Australian Flexible Learning Framework
• Institute intranet
• Curriculum Centres Learning Gateway
• TAFE Online Learningware
• TaLe
• AESharenet
• social software (eg. del.icio.us, Furl)
• other (please specify)
• I usually aim to find digital resources for
• a whole course
• a unit or module
• a lesson
• an activity
• an assessment
• other (please specify)

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Showcase
TaLe www.tale.edu.au

• I find out about new and emerging resource
  development through
• Australian Flexible Learning Framework
• industry associations
• EdNA
• Institute intranet
• TaLe
• RSS feeds (please specify)
• other (please specify)

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Communicate
TaLe www.tale.edu.au

• I engage with VET network(s) focussed on
• Training Packages
• training issues (eg equity, sustainability, RPL,
  numeracy)
• stake holders in the industry of my teaching area
• assessment issues
• teaching and learning issues (eg workplace
  learning)
• flexible delivery
• ICT
• needs of learner groups
• When I communicate and collaborate electronically
  with colleagues, I regularly contribute via
• email
• VOIP
• blogs, moblogs
• chat, instant messaging
• forums, online discussion
• Wikis
• file-sharing and tagging (eg Flickr)
• PDAs, mobile devices
• other (please specify)

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Portal diagram
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Discover on TaLe

• Myth 1TaLe is not a repository (distributed
  search)

Myth 2 CLI managed collections (TaLe search is
agnostic)
Myth 3 All resources need DET metadata (LRM)
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Discover on TaLe

• Leaving the silo
• search across Teaching areas/competencies/industry
  areas/etc
• across collections (esp schools/Collecting
  Institutions)
• levels of aggregation (course/module/unit/lesson,
  activity etc)

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Example a record on TaLe
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Current TAFE related resource collections

• Core TAFE/VET
• Institutes
• TAFE Online Library
• Curriculum Centres Extranet
• CLI (LRR)
• TAFE Studylinks
• PowerHouse Museum
• School related
• Eg The Learning federation
• NSW Board of Studies
• Proposed
• Federated search via EdNA
• ABC
• Curriculum Centres Learning Gateway

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TaLE Showcase services

• Showcasing
• Resources
• Publishers
• Collections

Identity for publishers Place to seek
feedback Quick turnaround time
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Exchange on TaLe

• Shared resources, quality resources?
• The quality of most resources discovered through
  TaLe derives from the authority of the producing
  body, CLI, TAFE Online Library, Curriculum
  Centres, etc
• TaLe is also a place to share resources developed
  by non-specialists, at grass-roots, while
  maintaining reputation for reliability of
  resources discovered through TaLe.

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Resource Sharing Communities

• A Resource Sharing Community can be
• a trusted group of known participants
• or open to all of TAFE and DET staff
• or changed from the first to the second at the
  Communitys choosing.
• Any participating teacher can
• upload a resource
• receive feedback in a discussion
• obtain support for the quality of a resource from
  peers

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Communicate on TaLe

• Professional Learning Communities
• Professional Learning Communities have a
  Learning Goal
• A PLC discussion is presented in a supportive
  context, a home area for orientation, and the Key
  Readings and Additional resources pages.
• Moderators manage all their own content and
  members.
• Login is via the DET Portal and TaLe, with no
  further registration or login required from DET
  staff.
• External guests can easily be registered.

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Communicate on TaLe

• Features of PLCs
• discussion is easy and intuitive to read, reply
  and contribute to
• advanced features are available, but do not
  distract from the core activities of reading and
  replying to discussion.
• a choice of email alerts, and option to reply via
  email.
• accessibility, enhanced with alternative display
  options
• searching and sorting
• uploading of files and links, so that
  participants can share content

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New TaLe at ICVET Learning Powerhouse 2006
Which feature of TaLe will you use first?
Discover
Showcase
Communicate
Exchange