In light of the innaugural meeting of the SENG network (formal name STILL being discussed) yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on what took place, what was discussed, and throw in a few words on my interpretations and opinions .We dropped the ball on recording the eventI’m very sorry to say that we largely dropped the ball on recording and broadcasting the event. I’m hoping to catch up with Robyn (and anyone else who’s interested) to determine the most effective ways of capturing and distributing the discussion more widely, and thus making it more accessible.In my view this network should be open to anyone interested in participating - regardless of their location. My hope is the fairly comprehensive notes outlined in this post will help provide an overview of what took place. We’ll try to having something set-up next time that will cater to remote participants. My apologies for anyone affected by this.A fairly diverse turnoutDespite some last minute changes in the list of attendees we still had a fairly strong turn out of 14 to 15 people. Near as I can tell the sectors we represented included TAFE, university, and one or two people who work across all levels of formal education. So all things considered the range was fairly broad.That said, UNSW had the highest percentage of participants - there were 7 of us, including 3 from Learning & Teaching (Belinda, Giedre, myself), 3 from the faculties (Andrew, John Paul and Emma), and 1 from the L&T portfolio in central IT (Robyn).It was expressed and fairly unanimously agreed that the group’s planning spaces should sit outside the domain (DNS) of any one institution - thus encouraging a feeling of independence, equity and equal opportunity & representation. So the current planning page on the UNSW TELT Wiki is seen as temporary only, pending the finalisation of the group name, which perhaps not surprisingly hasn’t yet been agreed upon.What’s in a name?The topic of naming the organisation has proven a pretty tricky busines
In light of the innaugural meeting of the SENG network (formal name STILL being discussed) yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on what took place, what was discussed, and throw in a few words on my interpretations and opinions .
We dropped the ball on recording the event
I’m very sorry to say that we largely dropped the ball on recording and broadcasting the event. I’m hoping to catch up with Robyn (and anyone else who’s interested) to determine the most effective ways of capturing and distributing the discussion more widely, and thus making it more accessible.
In my view this network should be open to anyone interested in participating - regardless of their location. My hope is the fairly comprehensive notes outlined in this post will help provide an overview of what took place. We’ll try to having something set-up next time that will cater to remote participants. My apologies for anyone affected by this.
A fairly diverse turnout
Despite some last minute changes in the list of attendees we still had a fairly strong turn out of 14 to 15 people. Near as I can tell the sectors we represented included TAFE, university, and one or two people who work across all levels of formal education. So all things considered the range was fairly broad.
That said, UNSW had the highest percentage of participants - there were 7 of us, including 3 from Learning & Teaching (Belinda, Giedre, myself), 3 from the faculties (Andrew, John Paul and Emma), and 1 from the L&T portfolio in central IT (Robyn).
It was expressed and fairly unanimously agreed that the group’s planning spaces should sit outside the domain (DNS) of any one institution - thus encouraging a feeling of independence, equity and equal opportunity & representation. So the current planning page on the UNSW TELT Wiki is seen as temporary only, pending the finalisation of the group name, which perhaps not surprisingly hasn’t yet been agreed upon.
What’s in a name?
The topic of naming th