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A fresh, creative web application that allows you to upload, enhance, and share digital video easily and quickly inside your web browser. One great benefit is that comments are able to be added to the video even after they are embedded in your website, blog or wiki. Useful for getting feedback on your training or coaching.

People connecting through video.

Making video has never been easier and now there is a home for the videos you make
Upload your videos - From little moments to masterpieces, your videos will always look best.
Share your videos - Vimeo makes it simple to share your videos with anyone you want.
Connect with others - Interact with friends, family, and other cool people you meet here.



Pebblepad: An e'portfolio or electronic resume where you can ad text, photos, videos - even competition results, links to websites etc as a record of your achievements. This is a way of keeping track of all your infomation that may be useful when you want to produce evidence of your past experience -say for applying for RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning - for qualifications you already have) or RCC (Recognition of Current Competency where you don't have formal qualifications but do have plenty of life experience). You may need this as part of your proof of competition experience for NCAS or NOAS (National Officiating Accreditation Scheme) applications. Jodie and Daniel are currently trialling this software.



Survey monkey: Is an online survey generator. You can use this to survey your students to see what they really want from you as a coach. You can even use it to generate quizzes. The free version provides lots of great features but you can also pay a small fee for more options. We sent out a survey to all of our elearning participants before we started our project & received 100% response so it must be pretty easy to use!



They're Racing Toolbox ... http://toolboxes.flexiblelearning.net.au/series8/801.htm
Explore this e-learning resource. Jenny and Michele were part of the development team. Includes:

• Handle Horses/Greyhounds Safely
• Transport Horses/Greyhounds
• OHS.

The Site Map is a great starting point to see what is included.

WotNews
http://wotnews.com.au/
WotNews is a news monitoring system. Once you set up your subscription you can ad search words such as horse, equestrian, web tools and this service will send you links to stories relevant to your search words. It's a good way to see what stories make the press.

Podcasts and vodcasts - what are they and how do you set them up?

Here is a great explanation from Stephan Ridgway on podcasting and vodcasting (the video version of pod casts which are audio files) podcasts and vodcasts Stephan Ridgway


http://www.flowgram.com/about_us/about_flowgram/

Flowgram combines the advantages of slide presentations and screencasts with an interactive user experience that fully exploits the fact that almost all the information we might ever need is already on the web.

Using the zero download Flowgram Maker, creators can assemble and annotate web pages, photographs, documents and more on any topic, and add a voice narrative that provides context, emotion and consistency. This uniquely personalized package can be shared as an embedable widget, email or as a link to either a private group or with the world. Flowgram recipients can interact with any of its pages by clicking on links, for example, or playing and pausing videos.

Thousands of compelling Flowgrams have already been created for education, training, sales, photo journalism, humor, website walkthroughs, and tutorials etc.

Check out Michele's play - A Tour of 'They're Racing' Toolkit


Elluminate Experience - An online lecture.
By the end of my “Elluminate” session I felt as though I would be able to do any course I wanted from my home. If anyone has been to the same conferences or meetings as I, they will know that I prefer to be an active participant. Attached (further down on this page under attachments) is my account of the session which was surprisingly just like being in a real lecture. The main benefits – I saved on time and fuel not having to get to the lecture and then get lost finding the right room, and I can revisit the lecture whenever I want to pick up on those bits I missed. Which to me is carbon efficient and a good use of recycling, and ultimately more time in my day to spend with the horse. This would be a great tool for our discipline to have access to for our coaches and administrators to save thousands on airfares and accommodation and actually “get together” more and achieve more for our sport. I encourage you to have a look at http://www.elluminate.com especially if you don’t have the time to.




The International Society for Equitation Science is a not-for-profit organisation with the primary function of facilitating research into the training and welfare of horses. The idea of founding a Society devoted to equitation science had first been raised during discussions following the Havemeyer Foundation Workshop on Horse Behavior and Welfare in Iceland in 2002. Since then, equitation science has developed rapidly. The discipline combines learning theory, psychology and ethology in order to objectively examine the efficiency of different training methods. For more information and access to the veterinary papers as well as applications for membership to the International Society for Equitation Science go to www.equitationscience.com Attached below is a sample of the 2005 Conference Paper, outlining a glossary of equitation terms. Additional past conference papers can be downloaded from the site.





Animoto is a creative way to display photos to music.

• It analyzes your images
• feels your music
• customizes a video.

Just like this one:It very simple to use, visit the ANIMOTO website for more information,