At the team meeting last week members showed the Photo Stories they had created. They're not all finished yet but all were justly pleased with themselves. You can see these at our EdNA group site and vodcast on podomatic.
The consensus was that it would be very worthwhile to have a complete set of machinery pre-start stories: dozer, excavator, loader, crane, backhoe, skidsteer and forklift. These would ease the difficulties presented by the choice of units and rolling enrolment model. This allows every learner an individual program but is difficult for the teacher to manage. Prior to and during our next team meeting on 6 September each member will complete their particular pre-start story:
- Lindsay - loader
- Peter - dozer
- Cath - forklift
- John - excavator
- Wayne - backhoe
- Greg - skidsteer
There was much discussion of how learners would access these stories. MP4 players and PDAs were considered but cost and small size could make them easily lost. The section is now looking at buying a set of portable DVD players. The goal is to be ready to use these learning resources with a group of learners at Tibooburra in October.
Greg showed the interactive learning resources he had produced using the ARED tool. These were about whistle signals and rules for crane and dogging. Team members were impressed with what could be done but some thought the computer skills required were more than they are ready for and are going to continue with Photo Story. Three members are interested in giving ARED a go and took the user guides with them.
Neil, working on a story on assessing a site, suffered a digital disaster when the folder containing his carefully collected images was deleted. At least he knows now where to take the images. We're looking forward to seeing his story next time.
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