30th June - Project PALM complete and what a great journey that was!

Regional Staff capability projects illustrate the opportunity to learn from and with others.  This post today is to thank all those people who contributed in any way to the planning and implementation of this TQR Project PALM. From administrative support to keep the project tracking, thanks go to Gail, Carolyn and Jeanette at BRIT. 

Thanks to my colleagues at TNQ TAFE who allowed me to plonk myself at free desks and to get into their busy workspaces and managers who let me talk to staff across the region about this project.  Congratulations to all those participants who explored the many options we offered in terms of learning, using technology and a focus on reinvigoration around our core priorities; e-learning, instructional design and assessment.  A special thank you to my virtual team members, Julie, Nicole and Peter who were the key people who made this work, what a great opportunity I had to work with professional and passionate people from our TAFE Qld organisation.

Here are a four survey monkey charts that visualise some of our project activity based on 4 evaluation questions, more detail can be found on our project PALM evaluation page.

Here is the link to our project PALM communication portal in my.TAFE feel free to explore and contact me is you require further information or details.

http://my.tafe.qld.gov.au/tqaccess/logon.aspx

Username: xwbiinductionu1

Password: password1
Enjoy the read

PALM Project evaluation image/words for review

A play with a tool called tagxedo a bit like a wordle program

I went to this evaluation website to review evaluation theory and descriptions  for our project review meeting Thursday and Friday this week .  You open up the  program link to any website and it will analyse the words and place them into a word cloud ... and you can choose the shape.    Here is the website link to the evaluation website  .

I also created another one by using this blog and the words written here and you guessed it is in the shape of a PALM tree. So you can link to them as well rather than saving the image http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/89ff23485e024dc9

Evaluation

The draft evaluation mindmap from bubbl.us and an image of the hope gate to get me in the mood for the purpose and reasons why why we do evaluation and how it can inform our future funding application for staff capability for TQR in semester 1 2010. 

Just came across this interesting link to learning innovation in the public sector, well worth a read!
Plus a pertinent quote "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay

Draft presentation for the VET Futures project Team meeting June 15th 2010.  Click here for slideshare link

Review june15 tqr_projectpalm_vetfutures2010

View more presentations from TQRprojectPALM.

Flip camera and Project PALM metaphors - Rough!!

I have just put together a short video using a cheap flip camera, to add to the VET Futures presentation on Tuesday in Brisbane.  Took about 30 minutes and yes it is rough, but does visualise the metaphors we used for this Project PALM Problem based active learning model.  Palm trees, fronds and coconuts.


The PALM ( Problem based active learning model) acronym was represented with the Palm tree.  Aligning the trunk, coconuts and fronds enable us to market and have some fun with how we talked about this project!  Plus... with so many other VET Futures initiatives out there we needed to differentiate ourselves as the FIRST TQR VET Futures focused project.

The fronds on our visual metaphor represent the 6 Institutes we worked with in this project as well as the TQR facilitators, Julie, Nicole and Peter as key connecting fronds and linkages between participants and Institute management and our Project PALM team.  The trunk as we moved up the tree signified the progression of activities that we as a team had developed to progress the project and achieve our aims in supporting professional development for teachers focused on three core priority areas; e-learning, assessment and instructional design. The bunches of coconuts coconuts represent the learning are all of the possible tools, technology and criteria that encapsulate what needs to be explored, and reinvigorated and applied in teaching practice for the 21st century VET teacher and associated support staff.  The whole coconut represents the learning criteria and the husks within the coconut illustrate how intertwined much of this learning needs to be.  How job was to collaboratively break open this coconut (dehusk) and negotiate with participants realistic just in time learning activities and options in a project Palm action plan.  We have broken the core priority areas down into focused manageable timely learning activities and identified and connected key support methods to assist in the learning process.

So now I am going to attempt to upload this video to Youtube and share this short video of our project that will enable the metaphor to be visualised, 30 minutes work... any feedback gratefully received!