Creativity the focus, for July sessions
Just the other week, in mid-July, leaders from the e-learning Creative Communities projects gathered in Melbourne for two days of intensive professional development, celebration, collaborative problem-sharing, and “high performance teamwork”.
Creativity was the theme, for the two days - to explore the creative side of our projects. Josie Rose set the scene, emphasising the extraordinary processes that can emerge when people pool their talents and draw expertise from many different fields, (aka the “Medici Effect”).
Delia Bradshaw invited each project to tell the story of their progress so far by illustrating or celebrating a “significant moment”. Community leaders showed their flair for imagination and improvisation, by drawing on theatre as well as television genres. Stay tuned for audio excerpts from these presentations.
Speakers during the sessions included Jim Cavaye, who led people to explore how learning is crucial to the vitality of communities everywhere.
People also learned about
- the usefulness of the Framework media department (Hayley Beck),
- a huge benchmarking project (which has shown the uptake of e-learning rise significantly in the last five years, Ian Phillips),
- the inclusive e-learning projects (Mary Schooneveldt), and
- the role of EducationAU (Kim Edgar), as well as
- “High Performance Teamwork” (Marie Jasinski).
Huge thanks to all the community leaders, presenters, and others who attended, for your energy, warmth, inspiration and generosity.
In Murray Bridge, on Monday the 3rd July, Stacey and Shane led their community through an exciting and innovative project launch, on the “Captain Proud” steamboat, paddling along the Murray River. Members of the community joined our leaders on the boat, to share their views.