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=Tourism Hospitality ED - THED=
 * Quick links:** Calendar of events I Photos and video I THED contacts I Getting started

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THED 08
We will hook up with T&H teachers via web conferencing. We are planning every other week on a **Wednesday afternoon 3.30 - 4.30** ([|Sydney Australia time]) to get together and share pedagogy and learning…

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 * THED online meeting room - Adobe Connect - http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/thed**

To attend simply click on the link, type in your name and hit 'Enter'. Check out the THED calendar below to see upcoming tourism and hospitality PD events.

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 * **Australia**

Choose **//'Join this space'//** to join this wiki (underneath the THED logo) then read Getting started.

Calendar of events
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[|THED Calendar]

Subscribe to calendar
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Teacher's stories

 * Utilising technology in the kitchen** - Quirino Colecchia - http://chefrino.blip.tv/file/440954/
 * Social networking for contacting Alumini** - Jeannie McRae - http://jmcrae.blip.tv/file/446934/
 * A people learning system** - Steven Parker - http://sparker.blip.tv/file/357385/
 * Real time moBlogging in event management** - Dominic Burriel - http://blip.tv/file/446989/
 * Web 2.0 to inspire students/ firewalls to frustrate** - Bjorn Ulfsson - http://bulfsson.blip.tv/file/444780/
 * Creating engaging resources** - Patricia Hearn - http://sparker.blip.tv/file/451709/
 * Planning and working together as a faculty team** - Rob Long - http://roblong.blip.tv/file/170136/

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**

Working together as a team
//'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//

How do YOU engage and communicate with students in their social networking and Web 2.0 world?
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 success stories online.

Photos and video
Click on the photos to find out peoples names.

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**TAFE Illawarra Institute - Australia**
Steven Parker (Learnscope facilitator) - Educational Technologist and THED Mentor Les Tasker - Educational Technologist and THED Mentor

Otago Polytechnic - New Zealand
Leigh Blackall - Educational Technologist and THED Mentor

Canberrra Institute of Technology
[|Marg O'Connell] - Educational Technologist and THED Mentor

Other
Jo Kay - Educational Technologist and THED Mentor Ken Burgin - Educational Technologist and THED Mentor - [|Profitable Hospitality]