First blog

What is learning? When I think of learning the first thing to come to mind is education. The majority of things i know is through school and university, although learning does not only occur through formal institutions, but looking at the broader perspective everyday learning occurs through seeing and watching others.
Learning i suppose is the transfere of [...]

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What is a Learner Management System:
Learner Management System also known as LMS, is described by Greenberg (2002) as a “strategic solution for planning, delivering, and managing all learning events within an organization, including online, virtual classroom, and instructor-led courses” (Greenberg, 2002, para.2). An LMS is actually a very broad term that is used to provide [...]

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I have used second life only briefly, and during the time i was using this system i found the applications and the system was quiet hard to use. On the contrary i can also see how useful this system can be to facilitate and teach users within organisational context.
Because second life is 3D and almost [...]

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Social networking has become the new buzz word in todays society. Everywhere i go i can hear “Facebook”, “Myspace” and “Bebo”. Am i a user on these pages- NO. Reason- i believe that these so called social networking systems are not quiet social. People do not leave home, but instead log onto their webpage and [...]

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After searching high and low, i have finally pin pointed the place where my community centre is situated. The closest community centre to Ashfield is in Summer Hill, a 2 min drive from my house.
I was pretty amazed at how difficult it was to find a community centre around the area i lived. Quiet ironically [...]

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Last week when i attended class the program was centred on second life, with Jo presenting. Jo was showing us what she does on second life and how it could be used within organisations for training and development purposes. Anne mentioned how this could be relevant in the future for DOCS if they implemented such [...]

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Synchronous communication is when people are logged on online all together and communicate and collaborate on issues, conversations, and topics spoken about. Some examples of Synchronous communication is: msn, chat rooms and confrenece calls.
The benefit of synchronous communication is that people could could talk and communicate with people in the comfort of their own home, [...]

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During class last week, Brett and a few of his collegues did a presentation on what they do for work. Brett and two of his collegues work for DOCS. DOCS is a government body which stands for the department of Community Services.
Brett and two of his collegues expalined what the department is responsible for, which [...]

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RSS is a web based application that enables users to recieve news and update directly to the page they want it sent to rather than viewing the website itself. The way that this occurs is that RSS aggregates information from the websites that get updated and send it through your preferred web page or home [...]

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There are a few web based applications that i am fimiliar with, which include: weblogs, chat, e- portfolios, social networks and podcasting.
Weblogs: I am fimiliar with weblogs as i have been doing it for two years at university for e-learning course requirements.
Chat: I have used msn as a chatting website, where i can see which [...]

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