Working Smarter as an ID

Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki | lesuma_a@usp.ac.fjCentre for Flexible & Distance Learning (CFDL)

IDs Meeting Show & TellFriday 20th May 2011

Some Tips from the Peanut Gallery

Overview• Alarms, Reminders, Calendars• A Tidy Email Account• A Tidy Desktop• A Tidy IB• The World Wide Web• Mai Gang – Communities of

Practice• Why reinvent the Vaka: Use OERs• I need a break!• Questions

Alarms, Reminders & Calendars

A Tidy Email Account

A Tidy Desktop

• Quick Links• Frequently Used

apps; Word, Excel etc.• Frequently Used

resources; portfolios, I&A template, blueprint

• Current projects• 3-4 columns of

shortcuts

A Tidy IB

Mai Gang – Communities of Practice

CDD & Ex CDD/DFL NOPE

PISCIOC

IT Forum LinkedIn BLOGS; Ed Technie, Tony

Bates, COL

Jane Hart’s Pick of the Day

Faculty

Why reinvent the Vaka: Use OERs

• Templates; MS, Google Docs

• Course Design & Development; OpenLearn, OER Africa, EDNA and the like

• Tools of the Trade; Objectives Builder, VID

I need a break!!

• Physical Exercise• Meal Breaks • Get out of your office and smell the roses!• When on leave , don’t come back to the

office!• Facebook, Music, Youtube• Having a good laugh!

Questions?