Lynne's Week

Just updating on what has been happening this week. I visited Sue at Japara Community House. First time I have been inside the house - driven past it many times but this was my first peek inside the door. Spent some time helping her focus on just one aspect of the many ideas proposed. The first priority appears to be to create a private label wikispaces wiki with the first one being for committee. This was actually proposed by someone on committee and just about all of the committee were keen so Sue felt it was important to "strike while the iron is hot" when they are keen. I agree, and when that is completed, she felt that a class wiki for some of the pre-accredited classes eg music, ICT etc would be the way to go.

We went through the Reality Check and it looks like there is an excellent chance that this will get up and running pretty quickly and will be used consistently. I left her with the task of getting the OK to spend the money on the private label, drawing up a plan of how they want to wiki to look, name of pages, which links to which page, outside links and some documentation that we can upload at our next session. Hopefully, she will pick it up quickly and will be able to them pass her skills onto others in the House eg a tutor or two as well as the committee. I also suggested that she get the committee involved at all stages and would welcome one or two of them at our next session to get them straight into using the wiki and seeing its relevance to them.

I also heard from Sue Trimmer at OELP where I had visited last week and gone through pretty -much the same procedure as they wanted to use wikis as well. She is now ready to go the next step so have made an appointment for next Monday.

Contacted Rowville and they are not ready to do anything until after the Stringybark Festival the weekend after next as they will be playing a huge part in that. Now trying to set up a time for Mulgrave and keep getting fobbed off. However, will try again and see if I can set up an interview time with them.

Have also sent out the Doodle to try to ascertain best times for our online sessions. Not a huge response so far and I will have to close it tomorrow as I want to let people know well ahead of next week's session when it will be. Will send out a warning email after this to remind people to get it done.

Next steps:

1. Get together with eChamps (online perhaps) to work out what we will be doing in each of the online sessions
2. Draw up timetable for online sessions and send out - leave some TBA if not decided on topic yet
3. Create running sheet for next week's online session
4. Contact Mulgrave (again) and set time for interview
5. Visit OELP again and get them started on their wiki