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Adult & Community Learning Services : Department of Education Building Capacity with eLearning in Rural and Remote Communities Community Engagement Project a project funded by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework and managed by Adult Learning Australia 1

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ Our Online Centre is tucked away in George Street Currie, as we advertise in the local infoline, accommodation houses, hire cars etc, we are frequented by visitors from all over the world to use the computers, they come from all walks of life, students…. IT professionals (it’s good to pick their brains).. international surfers….. musicians….. famous conductors.. You name it we have had them.. And the best part is they are ALL FRIENDLY & POLITE 2

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ The King Island Digital Photo group was formed !!!! Jenny successfully applied for a grant to get a TAFE qualified Professional Photographer to come to KI to hold a number of workshops. This is the results of the first Workshop held. 3

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ The workshop was held at the ‘Boathouse’ down on Currie Harbor We learnt things about our cameras we didn’t know existed, it was exciting We then went back to the OAC & played with Photoshop, this also was a great learning curves. (Photoshop talk.. Get it…) 4

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ Hi Chris Thanks for Thursday night you taught me something I had been trying to do for weeks. Now we will have rusty and Pooh bear walking on water!!!! Thank you so much Angela Feedback from first workshop…. Hi Chris I did enjoy Saturday and look forward to learning more Regards Rebbecca Hi Chris I enjoyed yesterday and the head was spinning for the rest of the night!! , but will get there 5

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ Much was discussed as to which web platform to use to put our project on the web..... Much research went into these web pages advertising photo sharing…. Some more difficult than others….. 6

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ We chose two photo sharing platforms because of the ease of them both….. www.picturetrail.com & www.webshots.com We figured we could link the two sites….. (need more brains though) 7

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ Some of the problems we encountered with putting pictures on the web were …… Setting up an account…. Deciding which platform to use (we chose two) Editing…. Attaching Jpeg files… Sharing ….. Some sites were just not User Friendly….. (very hard for beginners) 8

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ You can view the project at: http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?username=kingislandlife&Submit.x=14&Submit.y=14 & http://community.webshots.com/user/kingisland51 9

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’: 

King Island, Our Unique Lifestyle ‘A picture tells a 1000 words’ That is our project to date….. It can always be updated as we feel it will never age…. We hope you enjoyed it.. We have learnt that sometimes an idea is not as easy as we imagine it could be… the new technologies coming online can be difficult to understand.. BUT THE END PRODUCT IS WORTH IT….. 10

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