THED+07+Wrapping+up

=Oct/ Nov - To do= List of activities for Illawarra Instiute [|learnscope] participants to prepare for

Quality awards
The TAFE NSW Quality Awards showcase 2007 to be held at **Rosehill Race course on 15 November.** The THED project has **booth 32** to present the outcomes of your work. Important to obtain further suport for future work. https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/qualityawards/


 * Actions**
 * Talk about the work at both the booth and in 15 min presentation - Rob and Steven
 * Register at https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/qualityawards/register/.before 11th November - Rob and Steven
 * Prepare presentation - Rob and Steven
 * Prepare Banner - Steven and Connie

**Your Digital story**
There is a digital story competition to show the outcomes from your learnscope work. **Deadline 26th October**. Check out http://wikieducator.org/Create_digital_stories_using_photostory based on your work.


 * Actions**
 * Prepare digital story on what you have done with your students and the outcomes (Contact Steven if you need help) - All
 * Follow up on progress of each tema member - Steven
 * Do story on making a coffee - Dominic and Steven
 * Event Management Story- Jeannie and Rob
 * Baking - Rino
 * Hairdressing - Simone and Steven
 * Napkin folding - Patricia and Steven
 * ? - Bjorn
 * [|Knife sharpening] - Terry

Elearning 07
DATES: Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd November 2007 TIMES: 9am -4:30pm (Thurs) and 9am-3pm (Fri) VENUE: University of NSW, The Round House ADDRESS: Anzac Pde, Kensington

Check out. http://www.protopage.com/elearning07


 * Actions**


 * Identify who is going to attend
 * Provide funding

=A3 poster sent to Learnscope Oct 26th=
 * The future of Tourism and Hospitality Education in the 21st Century**

THED is an open, global network of Tourism and Hospitality educators supporting each other in furthering our learning and making sense of rapid changes in technologies for teaching and learning in the classroom.

· Research the use of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies popular with Generation Y · Implement the use of these technologies within the classroom to engage learners · Embed 'teach the teacher' mentoring across the Illawarra Institute to share learning · Students AND teachers collaborating and becoming more engaged in their own learning and developing resources · Students developing their own media to market their skills and knowledge and enhance their career prospects · Greater use of social networking tools enabling alumini/ teacher relationships to feed into student's learning · Growing numbers of teachers developing expertise and mentoring others within the T&H faculty · Organisational shift in attitude in supporting and enabling teacher innovation for sustainability · Growing open international network of Tourism and Hospitality practitioners sharing knowledge and expertise
 * Our mission**
 * Results**


 * Pictures and quotes**

'Facebook and MySpace is particularly good to talk the same language as the students. It's been published recently that employers are looking at prospective employees MySpace and Facebook accounts.' Jeannie McRae Event Management
 * Social networking for contacting Alumini**

'My aim was to motivate students in a different learning environment...the students responded with enthusiasm and their participation was above my expectations' Quirino Colecchia Commercial Cookery
 * Utilising technology in the kitchen**

'Learnscope has given me time to create resources to teach my students in a way that they enjoy. They like new technology, they love their mobile phones and it's been a good way to communicate at their level' Patricia Hearn - Alcohol and other Beverages
 * Technology to engage student learning**

'there are people who have very limited understanding of how to use all this stuff, then there’s people who are intermediate, I'd put myself as intermediate I'd understand some of the terminology so we'll have to start off where we are all at...' Rob Long - Event management
 * Working together as a faculty team**

Each teacher has had their own successes and issues to deal with, to manage join the THED google group and say hello, grab a flyer and check out the teacher's stories online.
 * How do YOU engage and communicate with students in their social networking and Web 2.0 world?**

Footer [|http://groups.google.com/group /tourismhospitalityed]

=**Flyer - Pictures and links**=

The future of Tourism and Hospitality Education in the 21st Century

THED is an open, global network of Tourism and Hospitality educators supporting each other in furthering our learning and making sense of rapid changes in technologies for teaching and learning in the classroom.

Bjorn Ulfsson - Web 2.0 to inspire students/ firewalls to frustrate - http://bulfsson.blip.tv/file/444780/ Quirino Colecchia - http://chefrino.blip.tv/file/440954/ Jeannie McRae - Social networking for contacting Alumini http://jmcrae.blip.tv/file/446934/ Steven Parker - A people learning system http://sparker.blip.tv/file/357385/ Dominic Burriel - Real time moBlogging in event management http://blip.tv/file/446989/ Rob Long - Planning and working together as a faculty team http://roblong.blip.tv/file/170136/

Each teacher has had their own successes and issues to deal with, join the THED google group and say hello grab a flyer and check out the teacher's stories online.
 * How do YOU engage and communicate with students in their social networking and Web 2.0 world?**

Footer [|http://groups.google.com/group /tourismhospitalityed]


 * your context and learners/clients
 * The issue/need that drove your project
 * your solution
 * the issues you have had to deal with
 * the impact it has had/ will have for learners

Team members please provide photo and caption on what you have achieved in your project.

2- Identify Panel participant -? This person will speak for 3 minutes on the topic and then be part of a broader discussion The panel will be facilitated by an e-learning expert We will advise you of the panel topic for your team by the end of next week
 * ONE** person from your team attending the event will be required to participate in a **panel discussion** around 10 topics/themes TBA

Providing teacher release hours information

 * Actions**
 * Please fill in the attached form with details on the other hours you have put into the learnscope project. Any hours left over from the project will fund the mentors for the planned showcase http://thed.wikispaces.com/THED+Showcase Learnscope digtial story competition