wiki

I've created a wiki for TROPIC http://tropic.wikispaces.com/ (and another one for youth pathways). It's amazing how easy it is - and free too. I hope we can get some use out of it. There are definite advantages over a blog, especially the fact that it's shared, not just owned by one person. Also you can lift files to it.

I'll still keep the blog going anyway, it's one way for me to keep track of what's happening with TROPIC. Most exciting news is that I've been invited to run the training in Tasmania. Not finalised yet, but hoping that will happen in late February/early March.

Next week is visits to WBIT and SQIT, and our videoconference.

November already

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to get to Melbourne last week for the 'Going Virtual' conference - all about tele-working and virtual teams. Somewhat relevant to TROPIC because we're a virtual team, although it's proving difficult to get much teamwork happening at the moment. Maybe it's me? Or just that there's so much going on... Fourth term is always frantic, and I know there are structural changes happening in institutes as well. We have a videoconference scheduled at the end of this month so hopefully that will spark a bit more activity. In the meantime I probably need to get something happening or assign some sort of task to keep people engaged - or to re-engage them.

I had an email this morning from Bev Childs who is interested in some professional development for teachers around behavior management. I think she is at BNIT now. So the interest is there.

In terms of TNQT, I might write up a summary of where we all are. I could ask the other two institutes to send a summary of what they're up to - maybe a questionnaire will prompt a response.