LearnScope Start-up Workshop 6 (8/9/06)

Your Project - Rippling Outward

1. Do you think your project will grow and be sustainable into 2007 and beyond?
2. Who needs to be on board?
3. What needs to happen?
4. How does your organisation stack up when compared to others?
5. How can you influence the changes?

Organisational Change - an individual perspective
(Guest speaker: Alison McAllister)

• (powerpoint available)
• Leadership models: strategic, organisation-wide, teachers as leaders
• When looking for support align your project with the strategic plan, eg,
• (1) SA’s Strategic Plan: www.saplan.org.au
• (2) New Times New Ways New Skills: www.dfeest.sa.gov.au/dfeest/files/links/WDS2005.pdf
• (3) Better Skills Better Work Better State: www.dfeest.sa.gov.au/dfeest/files/links/nw.pdf
• Managers like hard data, eg, benchmarking - see
  http://e-learningindicators.flexiblelearning.net.au/
• Priorities: innovation in teaching and learning (including e-learning), creative capable people
• Culture: relationships, eg, bump spaces, program area morning teas, newsletters, people receive reward and recognition
• Life Based Learning
• Strategies: champions (interested in something), links/research, guest on discussion forum, quizzes, bump spaces (staff coming together in a casual manner)
• Rewards: good managers

A Handful of Pebbles - a group brainstorm

We all had to write down one idea on how to keep e-learning rippling out into the organisation. Once we had written the idea down on a piece of paper we then scrunched up the paper got around in a circle and "threw our ideas around". We then got into pairs and combined the two ideas we had ended up with into one idea.

Results of 'our' group brainstorm - thanks to Judy Forbes for collating.

1. Involve 5 people in a survey on e- learning and ideas of improving website…present findings of survey as basis for funds
2. Communicate and demonstrate new training methods to engage commitment and to implement new strategies
3. Promoting e learning across the organisation by encouraging the pooling of resources to benefit all
4. Utilise benchmarking as a way of highlighting good models to encourage other people/groups to implement as a strategy of best practice and providing quality
5. Networking either internally or externally to ones’ organisation to get ideas, feedback and support
6. Implement computer training by introducing a mentoring system in the workplace for staff using a planned and spontaneous approach

Lines in the Sand - a personal brainstorm

In this activity we used Mayomi to create a mind map of what we could each personally do to create more e-learning ripples in the organisation.

Digital Storytelling showcase

We got to see two digital stories - one from Chris and Deb introducing their project (very funny and really well explained) and another beautiful one from Judy who used Moviemaker this time (makes the voiceover much more fluid because it is not just image by image). They really are a great way to communicate.