LearnScope Start-up Workshop 3

What current team members are doing:

Sonya's comments on her blog:

• make it personal (as if you are talking to others)
• short and frequent
• links to work she has done

Judy Forbes' moodle site on vetsa:

• Children's Services Diploma
• Has news forum, profile

Guest speaker - Michael Bullock (1 year on from Start-Up)

• Managing Director of Subrosa Solutions
• Only a small company with not a lot of money BUT a lot of tools out there are free
• About changing people's attitudes
• Won't suit everyone or every course
• More open minded
• Make a decision to put in some of the technology
• Still meeting with other start up team members
• Went back excited about the different technologies

Baby Steps...2 years on...Sean Simper

• At Online Access College
• 15 years experience prior to Start up including Web Design business
• Taking ideas back to work, finding out what people were doing, continually flagging things that they should be doing better
• Organised an elearning expo (primary to TAFE staff sharing what they were doing with others)
• Kept looking for opportunities continually - flexible learning strategies
• Started networking with others
• Project - taking stock of elearning direction
• In project on multimedia online learning objects
• Looked at funding opportunities, finding people with a passion who spoke a similar language, conferences, online training, edayz
• Sense of an antenna - honing your skills - the who, what, where, how
• Be strong in your mind about what you want to do and go out and try it, communities, blogging, connect with other, training (you must be the driver), work out who you need to talk it, find the person to make it happen
• New project on research into podcasting
• Passion and drive
• (Marlene comments he was always there at everything she went to)

Sphere of influence

• Dropping a pebble in water - ripple effect
• You can influence things you are in contact with
• World sphere - so far out of our sphere of influence (but they affect us)
• Peoplele usually work on their sphere of influence and whinge about the world sphere of influence because they can't change it.
• Middle sphere of influence - break our of your sphere of influence and influence change in areas around you, eg, talk to your manager, get elearning on the agenda. It will ripple out and it will accelerate - "The surface of the pond has been disturbed".
• Push those walls and don't waste your time on things you can't change (the really big picture)

Introducing the e-learning guru

• Passion
• Risk-taker
• Determined & initiative
• Approachable
• A willing learning
• Skilled
• Willingness to explore
• Expansive & creative
• Energetic
• Persistence
• Prioritise
• Focused
• Non-threatening
• Networking

Guest Speaker - Robby Weatherley

• Capability Building Program Leader (Australian Flexible Learning Framework)
• Professional Development: opportunities to learn, progressing skill, creating new knowledge, application in context
• Strategies: workshops, mentoring, networks, coaching, conferences, conversations, dialogue, experimentation, reading, watching, questioning
• Expert centered learning
• Work based learning
• Life based learning ... adults learn from multiple sources, ie, leisure, family, work, personal

Speed Dating!

We had to sit in two rows facing each other and we had one minute each to tell the person opposite us how what steps we were now going to take to become an e-learning guru. After two minutes one row had to move down a chair so we had to talk to the next person. My thoughts were as following:

• Read our forums, make time to really look at links everyone else's provides
• Look and participate in other online communities at EdNA groups
• Share my journey with others at work, get their input

FINISH HOMEWORK BY 10am THURSDAY 27 JULY