flooding!

Some photos of the flood in Cairns, around my suburb of Machans Beach - the top ones are of the grounds of the sports club - sports don't usually include boating, either in a traditional dinghy or a fridge! The 'road closed' is the access lane at the back of our house - it normally is closed (but the local kids usually ignore the no motorcycles sign). The girls are playing on the school oval, and the car and trailer are further down my street, closer to the Barron River.

Our access road is still closed as of lunchtime Thursday but the rain has stopped and the river levels are falling. Still no milk or bread at the local shop but things could have been a lot worse! and should be back to normal tomorrow.

TROPIC 2008

TROPIC activities so far this year:

• Phil and Mike ran an innovative micro-skills session for about 50 staff members at the TNQT Learning & Skilling Day
• After much planning and preparation and some uncertainty about who was going to attend, Phil and David and Bob and I ran a TROPIC training workshop in Brisbane last week.
  
• Many thanks to Deb for the massive job of coordinating venue and catering not to mention travel and accommodation for me and the Leaders - this with many last-minute changes and much waiting for information, and all happening just prior to the VET Teaching conference!!
• We had participants from Skills Tech, TNQT, WBIT and SQIT and also Angela from DETA's Research & Strategy Branch.
• The training went well and I'm looking forward to doing some work with Skills Tech and also closer to home with Daniela and Claire.
• Phil and I are also going to get some more activity happening with all the TNQT Mentors.
• This coming week I will be presenting at Ve-Mentoring, thanks to an invitation from Simon.
• Both Simon and Tracie are bringing some expertise and interest in online environments to our network, and Mike has vast experience in videoconferencing.