Digital Dialogues

14th AiMiA awards

AiMiA - The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association - is running their 14th annual awards:

   

The AIMIA Awards are the longest running and most prestigious awards in Australia’s Digital Media Industry. Celebrating the very best in digital content innovation across all genres and interactive media platforms, the AIMIA Awards recognise the industry’s finest and showcase Australia’s leading Digital Content developers, content providers and application developers.

There's an extensive list of categories:

1. Best Advertising or Marketing;  2. Best Children’s;  3. Best Classifieds;  4. Best Corporate or Business-to-Business;  5. Best Cross-Platform Content or Content Integration; 6. Best Cultural, Lifestyle or Sport;  7. Best Integration with an Offline Advertising Campaign; 8. Best Interactive TV; 9. Best Emerging Exporter;  10. Best Entertainment;  11. Best Financial Service; 12. Best Learning & Education; 13. Best Mobile Advertising or Marketing; 14. Best Mobile Product or Service; 15. Best News, Media or Reference; 16. Best Non-profit or Government; 17. Best Online Retail; 18. Best Science, Health or Environment; 19. Best Student Developed Content; 20. Best Tourism or Travel; 21. Best Word-of-mouth, Peer-to-peer or Viral; 22. Effectiveness Award;  23. Best of the Best Award; 24. Outstanding Contribution Award
Wow... and that's all...

I'm a judge this year, and I'm really looking forward to exploring the entries in my allocated category - which I had better not mention to ensure the integrity of the blind judging process!

Winners will be announced at the Digital Content Industry’s Night of Night’s in Sydney on Friday 7th March, 2008.

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Learning Technologies 2007 starts today

In about 5 hours the Learning Technologies 2007 conference will kick-off!
Sun's out in Mooloolaba - surf's good - and the conference program is looking great!
And as usual, Hot Pipi's Cafe is the place for wireless access... tough life sitting here beachside, watching the surf, drinking cappuccino's and of course, trying to finish off my presentations...there's probably just enough time to have a quick body surf before this afternoon's workshops start...
Standby for highlights from the conference ....

Authentic assessment tasks

As the end of semester approaches, last classes this week, and final projects and assignments are being submitted, a recurring question needs to be addressed:

Why am I being inundated with emails and advertisements for software tools that detect plagiarism?

Why aren't we designing authentic assessment tasks that require the individual to develop their own learning experiences - that can't be copied or bought on the internet?

LMS Survey Results

The results from the October LTUG survye on LMS are in... and the findings are.... well - summarised below:

Q. What do you think of LMS? (Respondents could select more than one response - in case you're adding up percentages!)
47.6% They're OK but limited
31% Loved them
28.6% Use them becuase they have to
And the most revealing comment:
2.4% My cat/dog loves them too!

Q. Do you use - or have you used - a LMS?
92.9 % - YES!

Q. Which product have you used?
68.6% Moodle
54.3% Blackboard
45.7% WebCT
45.7 % Janison

There's masses of comment on the current state of the LMS - too many to reproduce here but.. perhaps some of my favourite jems (objective and subjective ones!)

" ... it appears peple are only using LMS to hang page turners onto it and track for completion of compliance programs"

"Management is the driver"

"It's a database - no more, no less"

"They usually have heaps of features, it is the policies implemented around them that cause restriction"

And a final recommendation for improvement:
"Blow them up!"

If you'd like to read through more of the results, you can request a copy here.

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