G'day rural and regional friends,<br><br>On 28/01/2008, Kent Beveridge <<a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Trust me, I am hammering VITTA on this project at present. We have a few rural schools who've put their hand up for this one. AJ and Roland at VITTA both know I'm keen on this and I also spoke again to Roland on Saturday at our 'installfest'.<br>
<br>Got any ideas how you might approach this problem, if so, let us know on this list, the more the merrier!<br></blockquote> <br>I wonder sometimes if it is better to just go with a tried and trusted 'low-tech' approach. There may be merit in just video recording an event and publishing to teacher tube then follow-up Moodle discussion forum with some hosted documents or organising a synchronous follow-up chat with SkypeCast to further support the activity for remote participants. Rather like the rough cut but fascinating Google TechTalk Videos. Apart from cutting out the quiet bits and adding a header and intro, they push these as they make them.<br>
<a href="http://video.google.com/googleplex.html">http://video.google.com/googleplex.html</a>. <br><br>Dennis Daniels has uploaded some splendid google videos with GameMaker, Moodle, and other opensource applications so we know that this can be easily done by any one person. Check out this review about some of this posts. I wonder how many of you who use these free resources could consider donating to a pay-pal account for material used?<br>
<a href="http://moodlea.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-does-dennis-daniels-do-all-day.html">http://moodlea.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-does-dennis-daniels-do-all-day.html</a><br><br>Question is, what do you imagine is the role for a subject association when these new tools are relatively common, free and easy to use and share? What online event value can can be reasonably added and later charged for to cover some promotion, booking and marketing expense recovery with rural participants?<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>