1. TQR Project PALM
Promoting, designing and supporting
Professional Development for VET
teachers with a technological twist!
Ve-Mentoring web conferencing session- March 25, 2010
Colleen Hodgins – Project Manager
Colleen.hodgins@deta.qld.gov.au

2. Housekeeping – iConnect Web
conferencing
 Audio/Participant
window
 Text chat
 Recording
 Technical issues

3. Welcome:
1. Have you attended a web-conferencing
session before?
1. Yes
2. No
Activity 1 - Polling

4. Aims for today’s session

5.  Experience and participate in this web
conferencing platform (iConnect –elluminate)
 Find out more about Project PALM – a
TQR professional development model for
teacher capability in teaching and learning
 Consider, explore and identify possible
opportunities for enhanced communication
and collaboration across the Ve- Mentoring
TAFE Qld network aligned with Project PALM

6. Activity 2: Using the whiteboard
 Selection Tool
 Objects
 Text
 Freehand
 Images
 PowerPoints
 Follow Moderator

8. Background:
 VET Futures funding for staff capability
project 2010. Vet Futures website
http://vetfutures.net.au/site/
 TQR website - Project PALM page
 Project PALM communication portal – The
fronds!

9. Activity 3: Web tour
 http://vetfutures.net.au/site/
 http://my.tafe.qld.gov.au/WBI/WBI_Common/WBI_PALM_Comm_Portal/IMS_PALM_CommPortal_Setup/Content
/Page6_PALMFronds.html
 http://my.tafe.qld.gov.au/toolbox/frameworks/
courselibrary.asp?
CourseKey=1352&NoLookup=Y&fcache=5.1
68026E+07

10. The Project PALM team – The Fronds
Colleen Hodgins (PALM Project Manager) – TNQ, SQIT and Mount
Isa TAFE colleen.hodgins@deta.qld.gov.au 0439791594
Peter Carr (Project PALM facilitator) – Central QLD TAFE
peter.carr@deta.qld.gov.au (07) 4920 2480
Nicole Shang (Project PALM facilitator) – Wide Bay TAFE
nicole.shang@deta.qld.gov.au (07) 4120 6321
Julie Woodlock (Project PALM facilitator) Barrier Reef TAFE
Julie.woodlock@deta.qld.gov.au (07) 4750 5471
mobile:0438775932
Other – contracted facilitators, designers and support
personnel

11. What is this project all about?
 This is a professional development program
for semester 1 2010, focused on teachers
identifying a teaching and learning issue
aligned with one or a combination of the 3
core priority areas.
 Instructional design
 Blended /E-Learning
 Assessment

12. How have we got teacher/stakeholder buy in?
 Face to face presentations
 Information documents
 Project PALM web page
 Video-stream introduction
 iConnect web conferencing information sessions
 Identifying stakeholders – bubbl.us
 Institute facilitators/HR Managers/Institute Directors

13. Activity 3:– Desktop sharing
 Project PALM
spreadsheet
 bubbl.us
 Googledocs

14. The timeline for this project
 February 2010- June 2010
 February 2010- connect, and clarify project aims
 March 2010 – connect, create and commence a Project
PALM action plan with identified participants
 April 2010 – June 2010 - collaborate and create re-
invigorated approaches to teaching in the core priority
areas of instructional design, blended/e-learning and
assessment
 June 2010 – collaboratively and creatively share the
learning/resources from project PALM for further
enhancement across TQR Institutes in semester 2, 2010

15. What People needed to do to be involved in this project?
1. Read about Project PALM by going to the TAFE Queensland
Regional my.tafe site and reading the Project PALM information page
2. Contact their Institute Project PALM team facilitator for a chat about
their idea/issue. They then collaboratively develop a Project PALM
action plan that clearly articulates their PD needs and what they will
do and what we as the PALM team will source and provide for them
as part of their participation in this project
3. Obtain their manager’s signature on this action plan and document
on the plan how they will be supported by their manager in this
project.
4. Sign their draft plan and forward to their Project PALM facilitator.
5. Stay tuned to receive okay to participate and and be ready to
commence their project after the Easter break. (10 week timeline –
we promote at least a three hour a week time commitment as a
guide= 30 hours over the semester)

16. Where are these project PALM activities being
conducted?
 The funded project participants are drawn from
TAFE Queensland Regional Institutes – 46
Campuses
 However there are ……options for those outside
this TQR region to be involved!
 Teaching and learning networks
 Generic training accessible in multiple modes
 Sharing of all outcomes across TAFE Qld

18. The Project PALM team has so far….
1. Worked with participants/managers to develop an identified issue into
an achievable semester 1, 2010 Project PALM action plan
2. Developed a communication portal for this project for team members
3. Is in the process of Identifying, Sourcing, Designing and Facilitating
support strategies for participants to achieve the project outcomes.
4. Identified funding allocations as per the negotiated action plan
requirements and allocated VET Futures budget
5. Liaised with management/stakeholders/networks to promote this
project, using multiple modes across TAFE Qld
6. Is in the process of Identifying synergies and connections with other
PALM participant projects, and others in the TQR /TAFE Qld
networks/VTA’s who can contribute to project outcomes
7. Mapping what is currently available and being developed and
delivered as part of other VET Futures projects and current Institute
L&D options/plans aligned with these projects

19. Summary of draft project applications
Instructional Design – 5 projects
Tourism
Nursing
Childcare
Business – Diploma of Management
Business Administration – RPL certificate 3/4

20. Summary of draft project applications
E-learning – 25 projects focused on 4 areas
instructional design – 4
Facilitation – 2
Online testing/assessment – 7
Content/refinement my.tafe - 12

21. Examples of draft Project Applications – e-learning
1. Childcare has a new training package and would like to refine
their assessment processes by exploring some use of online
testing using my.tafe
2. Nursing currently delivers training using a blended model
focused on residentials exploration of other modes and
efficiencies to be explored
3. The hair and beauty team have resources in my .tafe but would
like to explore enhancing their current facilitation strategies
with these resources and promoting interaction between
learners
4. Business Admin would like to set up a resource and
communication portal in my.tafe for use with RPL clients
5. Plumbers want to explore the use of online tests and the
process for developing these in a streamlined manner with
their Learning technologies unit

22. Summary of draft project applications
Assessment – 4 proposed projects focused
BRIT – Refrigeration
BRIT – community services (RPL e-
portfolios)
TNQ – Contextualisation of Sustainability unit
TQR – delivering assessment foundations –
multiple modes

23. Other
Technology training in:
 Captivate
 iConnect web-conferencing
 SCRATCH
 Videostreaming
 Videoconferencing
 Online game creation
 Web 2.0 tools
 Wimba
 Ispring
 Learning design tool
 AFLF
 Toolboxes
 My.tafe
 Resource bank
 Identification of relevant training
programs ( e-learning,
assessment, instructional design)
currently being conducted across
Institute locations and the
enhancement of these programs
into chunkable learning objects
using multiple formats.
 E.g assessment foundation
session on AQF currently being
conducted by WBIT (2 hours) to
be reviewed and developed into 4
half hour sessions and conducted
in web conferencing format, so it
can be recorded and shared for
future viewing and use. Video-
streaming option also to be
explored.

25. Guiding principles – assumptions in this
project
 Initial research is conducted and completed by the
participant and facilitator as to what is currently
available for use/customisation, redesign across
TAFE Qld and the wider VET sector
 Participants to connect with their colleagues/relevant
support personnel (e.g InstituteLearning
technologies team, library, Videolinq) and their
regional Institutes/VTA’s and talk about what they
are proposing in their project
 Provide reflective comments and short summary of
learning’s and outcomes in June
 Management agreement and support

26.  Clarify
 Communicate
 Collaborate/Cooperate
 Create
 Capability

27. Quiz: Final Activity

28. Thanks for your time
and if you have any
ideas that you are
happy to share with
us we’d love to hear
from you.
We are about
reinvigoration and
refinement not
reinvention!!!!!!
Plus
My contact details:
Colleen Hodgins –
0439791594
Colleen.hodgins@deta.
qld.gov.au