A new journey begins

I attended my first online meeting for the 2011 e-mentor project.

What an amazing array of skills we have. I'll have to admit I didn't understand all the technologies mentioned but as this is a learning experience I know I'll get to know more.

For those who missed the meeting. A little about me. I work for Coonara Community House with Lynne Gibb & Liz Grigg and was a student at the time wikis were introduced as part of our learning in Cert III Community Services work.

I was already a moderator of a private website, learning as I went, so this was very exciting. I went home and taught myself more on what these collaborative sites could do and then shared what I found with Lynne and Sally (my tutor) and offered to help other students to use this new tool. I got involved in a project as part of my Cert III and we used a wiki to document our progress and results. I learned how to embed photostory by scouring google for answers. I learned how to add backgrounds and all sorts of things.

I went on to do my Diploma Community Development and also did Cert IV TAA and started teaching "computers for the timid" and have since gone on to teach Cert III Community Services and training for student wikis.

I also manage Coonara Community House website and some of our internal sites, The Basin CH website and have rebuilt Orana NH website and taught one of their staff members how to manage it.
I developed the use of google docs for staff to fill in pay sheets from home. We have domain name google email and this fit in perfectly reducing the need for sessional tutors to come in and fill in hard copy paysheets. A one stop shop.

As part of my Dipcomdev placement, I worked for Care Connect to establish a support group for families of children with Autism which we named Spectrum Connections and of course it has a wiki to support it.

I have also worked for Scope - Eastern Recharge, developing their wiki for clients with disabilties to access information about activities and obtain booking forms.

I am currently doing the same for the Metro Access officer at Boroondara Council.

I'm sure that list is incomplete but I think you get the idea.

I look forward to working with everyone on the project and encouraging the organisations to get the best out of technology.