P D Day in Timaru - not perdiodic detention!

Yesterday we had an Aoraki Polytechnic Professional Development day in Timaru for all staff from across the 5 sites.
There was lots of discussion about flexible learning - as mentioned in the previous post we had a session with Selena Chan from CPIT. She is a great advocate for elearning and how it will affect all learning in the future. She did also make the comment "learning online is also a skill" - which I found encouraging. She also showed us a table that has been composed by the school of education at Harvard in an article named "Learning: Peering Backward and Looking Forward in the Digital Era" . She also introduced us to resources that we may be able to use to create an eportfolio - these were multiply; vox; a New Zealand resource named Mahara; a comic strip creator called comiq, and finally video sites like metacafe.
We were also alerted to the use of moodle for our programmes - so that may now be the focus for my plan!
Not long until the ski season starts - hence the snow picture!