Voice <> Employability Skills

http://flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/225429168/

“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)

Original photo by Hummanna.

The Impact of Voice

• Personal• Immediate• Closer• Humanity• Interaction• Dynamic• Emotion• Connection• Collegiality Source: www.voice.gatech.edu/

TARGET GROUPS (Who Benefits?)

• English as Second or Other Language Learners (ESOL)

• Low level literacy

• Those with little recent formal learning experience

• Those with poor keyboard skills

• Those who prefer an auditory style of learning

• Voice allows for complex tone (compared to uniform tone of written text)

Spoken v Read Text

• Hello everyone. My name's Anne, and I'm feeling a little nervous about this online course because this is a brand new experience. Still, I'm not one to shrink from a challenge so I'm also feeling pretty excited about it. I hope doing this course will enable me to improve my career prospects, and make some new friends from the people doing the course. So let's roll!

The Short List

• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology

Executive Functions(Neuroscience)

• planning

• decision-making

• inhibition

• meta-cognition (thinking about learning)

• creativity

• problem solving

Employability Skills• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning

• Technology

Executive Functions

• problem solving• decision-making,creativity• planning• inhibition• meta-cognition (thinking

about learning)

Tools:

• Audacity• Wimba Voice Boards – example

• Voice Thread• Chinswing - example• PhotoStory, MovieMaker• Blogs, Podcast sites

– Podomatic, Odeo (open web) – Podzone

• Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate)• Skype• Second Life

Audacity

Voice Boards

• Wimba (proprietary) - example

• Voice Thread

• Chinswing - example

Asynch

Synch

Oral Written

DialogicMinimalistic

Reflective; combination

of dialogic and monologic

Most structured form

ofcommunication

COMMUNICATION AXIS

Tools:

• Audacity• Wimba Voice Boards – example

• Voice Thread• Chinswing - example• PhotoStory, Movie Maker• Blogs, Podcast sites

– Podomatic, Odeo (open web) – Podzone

• Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate)• Skype• Second Life

Photo Story: which skills?

Photo Story: which skills?• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology

Which skills? – all of them!

Tools:

• Audacity• Wimba Voice Boards – example

• Voice Thread• Chinswing - example• PhotoStory, Movie Maker• Blogs, Podcast sites

– Podomatic, Odeo (open web) – Podzone

• Virtual Classrooms (Centra, Elluminate)• Skype• Second Life

Virtual Classrooms(Centra, Elluminate)

Second Life

See Second Life in Education

Other Customised Solutions

• Recognition of Prior Learning or Current Competency for Indigenous Learners (University of Ballarat)

Why Media?

• Adrian Miles (RMIT):

“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”

• Innate human desire/need to create• Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables

creation of art, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc

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Making Executive Functions explicit produces better results than embedding. (Martin Westwell) (Is the same true for employability skills?)

We need 'character education' that develops executive functions. This needs to be explicit in curricula that focus on training the person rather than just teaching content. We need to develop effective assessment strategies to promote and measure these characteristics. (Westwell)

ANY QUESTIONS?COMMENTS?