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Rural Links
 * TITLE**

Online Conference Room /Classroom** - [|http://www.compued.com.au/discovere/kcc]
 * ONLINE MEETING SPACES
 * Edna Resource Base -**http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/enrol.php?id=1345

//Sue Reynolds -Griffith Adult Learning Association// sue.reynolds [at] gala.nsw.edu.au
 * MANAGER**

Hi everyone and welcome to our Coast to Country Learnscope Project. I live in Yenda a small town (popn 1,000) near Griffith NSW. I am a VET teacher at GALA mainly working with young adults with disabilities teaching business services, retail, literacy programs and I also coordinate the Skills Migrant Program. My husband,Peter and I also have a small seed business, growing seedlings in shade houses for seed as well as fresh produce. Peter also has his Cert IV AWT and is a Horticulture trainer and assessor.
 * Profile**

I am looking forward to meeting you all on Monday 18th June at 4pm and beginning this journey of discovering new and innovative tools that can be used in our teaching and learning environment. Our session on Monday 18th June will cover housekeeping, roles and responsibilities of all members.
 * Reflections 1**

Great to meet up with Debbie, Sue Bailey,Kathy and thank you to Bronwyn for your apology. Debbie gave us an overview of the project; how online learning impacts on the college both from a trainer and Manager's point of view, payment for participation and how to use the wikispace. Our next meeting will be on Monday 2 July at 4pm. Debbie is going to be sending out instructions on how to use the wikispace This is a great space to talk about your experience with online learning and the IT issues we face in the bush.
 * Meeting June 18, 2007**

__**Next general meeting:- Monday 2 July, 4pm. Please note the change of room for this session:- www.compued.com.au/discovere/vte1**__

__//**Meeting July 2, 2007.**//__

Due to trying to juggle, transport and phones ' on the run' this session was canceled. Apologies to participants who set time aside to attend this session. Debbie circulated information on the project and future meeting times via an email last week, if you did not get this email please let Debbie or I know. Our first face to face meeting will be held in Griffith in August.This will be a great time to meet and enjoy the hospitality of Griffith.

//Debbie Littlehales -Kiama Community College// debbie.littlehales [at] kcc.nsw.edu.au
 * FACILITATOR**

I am manager of Kiama Community College, and online webtools tragic, I love to mess with them all and generally end up dismissing them. I have been involved in learnscope in a vaiety of capacities over the past 5 years, and get re engergised by it every year. in 2007, I am working in a M learning project for learnscope this year -I'll let you know how it goes!
 * Profile**

It was great to meet most of you at the CCNSW conference. I think this will be a great project. We hope that your immersion in the Online classroom as students, will give you a good feel for view online learning from the perspective of your students. Working in the online enviroment can be challenging, and I'm grateful to you for " give it a go " attitude. From discussions with Ruth it seems that everyone has been into Discover E, and the edna site for an orientation. I look forward to chatting with you in Discover E on Monday 18th June
 * Reflections 1**

Our project will focus on developing the skills of trainers in isolated rural and regional areas of NSW in the Coast to Country Community Colleges. In addition to upskills trainers, we aim to increase the capacity of the colleges to incorporate flexible learning opportuities into their program. Small rural colleges often suffer from a lack of local trainers, we hope that our project will strengthen our network to open the opportunities for trainers to work online outside their local areas
 * FOCUS**

Students and trainers in rural and remote NSW
 * TARGET**

The Community Colleges of the Coast to Country Community College Cluster are an informal alliance of providers covering a gegraphical area from Kiama, Batemans Bay, Goulburn, Bega, Griffith, Corryong, Condoblin, Broken Hill. Each College is a Not for profit, locally owned and managed organisation with similar goals and aims.
 * CONTEXT**

Our target tutors and leaners are a wide variety of community members who are geographically dispersed, and suffer from the tyranny of distance and isolation
 * TARGET GROUPS**

Profile Reflections 1 Profile Reflections 1 Profile Reflections 1 Profile Reflections 1 Profile Reflections 1 Profile Hi all. I commenced working in a part time capacity at SRCC in January 2007 after the completion of Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Currently I work on a contract basis as VET Co-ordinator and Tutor. I am looking forward to developing my skills throughout the project. Reflections 1 I have enjoyed both sessions with Ruth and the session on 18th June. Looking forward to tomorrow's session (2 July)
 * TEAM**
 * Kathy Miles**- k.milesatgala.nsw.edu.au -Griffith Adult Learning Association
 * Profile**: Hi Everyone. I live at Coleambally which is a small town of 660 people and about 45 minutes from Griffith.I work as VET Coordinator here at GALA which is a new role I took on in March. My husband and I own a small hardware business in Coleambally which employs 1 part-time and 1 casual person. I am also studying by Grad Dip in VET so the learnsope project fits in well with the study and my work here at GALA
 * Reflections 1**: The first sesson the other day with Ruth last Wednesday 13th June was very interesting. Unfortunately due to IT problems, I missed a lot of today's (18th June) session. However, I am priveleged to have Sue Reynolds here to assist me.
 * Pam Smith** - pamsmithataustarnet.com.au -Condoblin Adult Education Centre
 * Bronwyn Irving** - b_bronskiathotmail.com -Eurobodalla Adult Education Centre
 * Steve Baker** - robedcatiinet.net.au -Robinson College, Broken Hill
 * Leone Traeger** - leone.traegeratkcc.nsw.edu.au -Kiama Community College
 * Anne Warburton** - farsouthcoastatlearningworks.org -Far South Coast Community College
 * Sue Bayley** - midbay@bigpond.net.au -Southern Region Community College

28th - 30 May -Face to Face induction meeting at Community Colleges NSW conference June 5th - Induction to Discover E June 12th Start of delivery of TAA units in Discover E - trial of learning with exisitng students JUne 18th -Discover E meeting - reporting and reflecting. July 2 - Discovere E Meeting- Reflections and what has been happening.Note the change of room for this session.:-__**www.compued.com.au/discovere/vte1**__
 * KEY DATES**

Our team will spend the first part of their learning journey participating as students in Discover E virtual classroom, studying the enviroment units of TAA. During this time, the team will be asked to share this knowledge and their experiences with their own students. The team will also contribute to the VTE Quality network, through the EDNA forum, and monthly Discover E discussions We look forward to participating in online opportunties with the flexible learning framework members from across Australia
 * SHARING KNOWLEDGE**

As our team will be participating as students with an experienced distance learning educator, we would like them to implement their learning experience with their own students, analysising techniques and strategies of online delivery, with the aim of developing their own traiing delivery in the online enviroment
 * WORK BASED LEARNING STRATEGIES**

It was great to catch up with team members at the CCNSW conference in Canberra
 * ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES**
 * To increase the capacity of trainers in rural and remote areas of **t**o enage and support learners through a variety of e-learning
 * options.
 * To develop strategic networks of trainers in rural community colleges to support each other in deliver and development of online learning opportunities
 * To enable trainers in rural and remote areas to participate in professional development through online opportunities
 * Summary from the conference**

List how your learners / clients / industry members are engaging with your team and / or involved in your project ?
 * CLIENT / INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT**

How will you provide evidence or measure the impact of the new skills and knowledge your team members have gained as a result of the project ? This could include links to multi-media, files and other data.
 * IMPACTS ON LEARNERS / CLIENTS**

Replace this text with your URLs ( links ) when you have completed the requirements listed below. Midway through the project your team will be required to; Meet with a member of the NSW LearnScope Management team face-to-face. A podcast recording will be conducted during this meeting which captures your progress and reflections on your teams learning. These podcasts will be available via the [|NSW LearnScope podcast] Your team will be required to submit a 250 word Postcard From The Field for publication in the [|NSW LearnScope blog]. Note : This should be submitted in text form only and be accompanied by a link ( URL ) to an image in your own respective Flickr site.
 * REPORTING MID PROJECT**

Replace this text with your URLs ( links ) when you have completed the requirements listed below. NSW LearnScope requires a final report that comprehensively details your teams project journey. This will include your teams findings, outcomes, client impacts and connections. Note : this component of the your project must be enabled for web production ie. it must be available to load to and / or be accessed via the internet. This report can take the following forms;
 * END OF PROJECT REPORT**
 * Podcast** - a 20-30 minute recording ( audio)which is a multi-voice conversation between team members, clients and industry representatives where appropriate.
 * Digital Story** - 20 -30 slides with audio
 * Blog Post** - a comprehensive ( detailed ) reflective summary of your teams journey with accompanying images
 * Multimedia production** - a video or Flash movie that brings together many differing aspects of your project into a production for easy view via the web.
 * Web Content** - a collection or portfolio of online data that has been brought together into a online summary of your projects journey. This site MUST be accessible for anyone via the internet.