Helen Eddy at Mahara Hui in Wellington on 20 March 2014 https://maharahui.org.nz/course/view.php?id=2

1. A community of practice for
Australian education leaders
Presenter: Helen Eddy
Mahara Hui 19-20 March 2014

2. www.palnet.edu.au

3. To provide professional learning
and support for school leaders
and build the capacity and
profile of the profession.

4. Palnet
• For principals by principals
• Online professional development communities
• Supported, facilitated, collaborative
• For school leaders – all sectors, all levels, all across
Australia
• Connecting international best practice to local needs
• Storage of professional evidence
• Platform complementing other systems
• Closed and open communities and information –
your choice

5. First designs

6. Groups
Mentoring
Portfolio
Profile
Events

7. Events, polls, like, search, breadcrumbs

8. Forums – collapsible, sortable
Group icons

9. Embeddable content
Social
media
buttons
RSS
AnswerGarden
Video in forum post
Google Calendar

10. Launched February 2012

11. Thoughtleaders
Experienced, skilled practitioners
for collegiate support and mentoring

12. Thoughtleaders
Their roles as Principals and aspiring leaders:
• Modelling ICT learning and development
• Supporting colleagues (mentoring/facilitating)
• Building ICT resources in education and school
leadership
• Creating and extending international
educational networks and communities

13. 10 facilitated groups
• Australian Curriculum
• Change leadership
• Leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education
• Leading ICT
• Data and reporting
• Rural and Remote education
• School governance and autonomy
• Social inclusion
• Special education
• Standards

14. Palnet 2.0
• Changed tagline
• New streamlined
‘supergroups’
• Archived old groups
• New thoughtleaders
• Education consultant
• Webinar series

15. Upgrade 2013
• New hosting arrangement with Catalyst IT, Sydney
• Upgrade from Mahara 1.4 to 1.8
• Re-evaluated customisations, some to become core code
• Better security
• New Elastic search
• Responsive theming for small devices

16. www.palnet.edu.au

18. Search

20. Palnet
• Over 3,500
members
• 88 groups
• Partnerships with
universities and
organisations,
Australian and
international
palnet@pai.edu.au