It begins....

Yesterday was the first contact day for the SITE Academy LearnScope mini project. It was held at TTG Modbury Tafe (not at the Lakes resort as some unnamed plonker first thought). I have set up this blog in an attempt to track my progress with the project, as a way to meet the requirements laid out by LearnScope and a method of sharing what I am doing with my colleagues.

OK. What the @#$%@ is it all about...... Well easiest way to find out about what LearnScope is all about is to look at their page
The people you see there are the ones who organise it and all that stuff.

And what about the SITE Academy LearnScope Mini Project? Well Adam Waters and I decided a good way to attack the project was to look at what is needed most regarding SITE elearning and work that in with the needs of industry as well. So we started a dialogue with Michael Sfera from the Sfera's Group to find out what would be most useful for their business. What savings and improvements could be made through the use of elearning in their workplace? The overwhelming choice was workplace induction.

So in a nutshell the SITE Academy LearnScope mini project is aimed at creating the basis for a workplace induction for the Sfera's group which can be completed online by new staff prior to them commencing work. It needs to be engaging and interesting.

"But hang on a second, isn't LearnScope about professional development?" I hear you say. I don't have the skills to be able to do this yet so the funds from the project will be used to pay for someone to take my classes so I can attend edayz and the LearnScope workshops as well as give me time to actually sit down and work out how to use the online resource development tools like ared and Wink and all those other free bits and pieces you find lying around on the net.

So stay tuned to this blog to read and see the progress and maybe you'll learn something new too.