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Gee writing grant and funding applications can really take it out of you. The process of getting together the project team, coming up with the project concepts and putting it all into a format that will win the grant is both a skill and an art that is just the tip of the project iceberg. Then when you get the news that you have won the grant you think that all that work has finally paid off. Well let’s not talk about pay just yet…. and if you have won a grant before you know that the real work is still to come.

I have had a great start to the year with the news that We-Learn, in conjunction with BJ Network Consulting Australia, Brightcookie and eLearning Catalyst won a grant from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) to develop a Toolbox for the Asset Maintenance Training Package, we call the project Squeak eClean. My role is Project Manager and so far it has been a very interesting experience to say the least. We have delivered our Proof of Concept and are now awaiting feedback from the National Reference Group before moving on to the next phase of the project. I have to pass on my huge congratulations and thanks to the team especially Catriona Ward from eLearning Catalyst who is providing the instructional design for the project and also to Damien Walsh from BJ’s who is working like a trooper on the content. Between the two of them they have done the bulk of the work to now and still have a lot in front of them. Their work quality is to be comended. Leo and the folks at Brightcookie are now dilligently working on the technical cogs that sits behind the Toolbox content and I have no doubt that the final product will be extremely useful to RTO’s delivering Certificate II and III in Cleaning throughout the country for many years to come.

The Framework have also released their 2010 Innovations projects and I am happy to announce that We-Learn will be managing the Video-Line Project for Subrosa Solutions. Video-Line will be integrating Streamfolio into Moodle to allow for use of video technology for RPL, assessment and enrolment. The exciting project will further embed e-learning at Subrosa and take innovative use of video in education to a new level, firmly placing Subrosa at the head of innovative RTO’s in the security sector.

As these two projects unfold I will be providing the occasional update on tools we are using and systems and procedures as a way of sharing our experiences. I hope you will join me and share these updates via your social media tool of choice.

So now the announcements are done, I better get back to it.

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