Yesterday we held our second BBC session for our region.
My feelings
I felt that we had a good plan and had done our preparation well. thanks, Lynne for the presentation. Very disappointed that only 2 RTOs attended - sometimes you wonder why you bother! But of course, we all persevere - must be because we love doing it!
Session Plan
- welcome
- icebreaker - another BBC skill to engage participants
- PD session - intro to wikis: this was designed to introduce e-leaders to wikis and as most of our e-leaders are admin we showcased the wikis we had created for admin, committee and tutors. This we hoped would give our e-leaders ideas to build on for starting to plan their own wikis.
- Poll to check how our e-leaders were going with the task set at the last session (set up a blog). We also used it to start sharing the facilitation with our e-leaders and Jenny from Pines ran the Poll and did a great job with it as I knew she would!
I did a file transfer of the How to Poll instructions I had created - another BBC/Elluminate option demonstrated.
- Question Time: there were no questions as one e-leader knows what her next steps are and the other has not yet created a blog.
- Ask for a volunteer to share the facilitation in the next session: we forgot to do this but I will email Janine from Nth Ringwood and ask her to run our Poll for us.
Objectives
We are trying to:
- demonstrate best practice in BBC/Elluminate
- involve e-leaders in sharing facilitation to give them experience in a supportive environment
- use the regular sessions to provide a PD session as well as checking on progress and being alerted to any problems arising which we may be able to solve at the end of the session or may need more one to one attention.
Reflection
We provided a good session that 7 of our RTOs did not attend. I believe that we have our session format right - a good mix of new skills and reviewing tasks completed or attempted.
Our next challenge is to get our e-leaders on board - perhaps we need to have a chat with Carole as she seems to be able to get her e-leaders to attend all of her sessions.
Lynne, Claire and I need to get together to make our plan for the PD sessions till the end of the year and put it on our regional wiki. I think that will help if our e-leaders actually realise that they will miss out if they don't attend.
I really was disappointed and have had feedback from one of my e-leaders that she was sorry that we had done so much preparation and then had such a poor attendance.
We must hope for better attendance at the next session. I think that now we are aware that we may have attendance problems we need to make sure that we start on time in respect of the e-leaders who have attended and their time - we waited for 15 minutes hoping that more would arrive!
Positives
Jenny did a brilliant job facilitating the Poll - I was very proud as she is one of my e-leaders and a friend.
As she logged in early and was made a moderator she also had a chance to practice the Poll, play with the ppt slides and some of the other tools available to moderators - this was good as Jenny will need to facilitate in BBC for her project.
Nth Ringwood managed to talk this time! I had recommended to them that they obtain headphones. They still have 3 people trying to use one computer, last session they had 4! I had recommended that they use a computer each so I will have to find out what happened there. Great that they are attending.
Well you were certainly quick off the mark to do the blog while it was fresh in your mind! I had to immediately start preparing for my next Online session with another project I am doing with the ANHLC. No rest for the wicked!
ReplyDeleteYou have certainly got everything down that I wanted to say - I share your disappointment at the turnout but this is what happens especially with sessional staff. If they are not working on a day we have the session they don't attend. I agree with you that when we get our schedule of sessions out to them and advertise what is coming up then maybe more will show up.
Some good news - my eleader from Japara has set up a Wordpress Blog and sent me the address. She has done one reflection on it so now as far as I know we have two - Jenny from Pines, and Ros from Japara. Ros apologised for not attending the online session - she doesnt work Weds and Mons. I did email her back and tentatively suggest that even if the sessions were on one of her days off, that they are only an hour long and she might consider at least attending some - will wait on her response!
Have set up an interview with Rowville for 25th Oct and finally Mulgrave on 26th Nov. Pity its so late but cant budge either of them to do it earlier.
Japara have had an interview and are currently taking it all back to committee to get the OK for funding a Private label wiki. They appear to know exactly what they want - a committee wiki first followed by a class wiki for non-accredited classes. OELP are firing on all cylinders - had a second visit yesterday after leaving them with heaps of research and homework from my first visit. Sue had done it all beautifully - had typed up exactly how she wanted the pages to look, and which linked to what, anchors to other pages and was full of questions and ideas on how to do things. By the time I left, she had set up her wiki and had the bare bones of pages and links, knew how to upload files and images, embed multimedia, create new pages and work on the Look and Feel. It is a joy to work with her as she is so enthusiastic and really knows shat she wants. If you are interested, the fledgling wiki is at http://adultsforlearning.wikispaces.com I tried to get ionto the cklde for her and change things around a bit - bigger text (to suit her low level literacy audience) and also to move the ppage tabs and Actions menu down to the bottom. It looked great in the preview but wouldnt save so I think maybe they have to pay before you can make custom alterations.