September already

Last week Meredith and I ran two one day Teacher Workshops at SkillsTech, one at Acacia Ridge and one at Eagle Farm. In between we had dinner with Sue, Pam, Simon and his wife. Sue presented me with this fabulous SkillsTech toolbox. Makes me want to get a shed! Photo courtesy of Simon - see link on the left to his flickr site where there are more TROPIC photos and much much more.

The workshops were low in numbers but great. I was especially interested in the flexible delivery of construction that Mark and Phil from Logan were telling us about. The students come in at various times when they can get released from work, do theory self-paced using interactive online learning and teacher support, then do practical assessments with the teachers when they are ready to do them.

A couple of weeks before that Phil H and I did another Teacher Workshop in Cairns. There were 11 people at that one and Jo Balatti was there observing. She has given some very useful feedback which is (or soon will be) in the action research wiki.

We have scheduled two more one day workshops in Cairns this year, one in October and one in December and we have agreed to run a Mentor Workshop in February next year. We still have lots of follow-up to do with the people who did the one day workshops. It's not easy to find the time. I'm now officially full-time in FATSIS - moved to R Block yesterday but am having a day off today as I haven't been feeling well for about a week and decided I really need a day of rest.

Cross-institute action research teleconferece tomorrow.

That's it for now.