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​​ =Chenelle, Kate, Wendy, Jess. =

Just starting this off for us today - please feel free to come in and add, change, decorate etc.

Just sent off your emails to join up - hope it works ok for us, Wendy.

Thanks for setting this up Wendy :) We're one step closer to completing our assignment! Yay! I will come back once I've looked into the assignment and topics a bit more and will hopefully have some insightful suggestions or comments :) Chenelle

Thanks, Wendy! I'm excited - my first wiki experience! Looking forward to finding my way around and (hopefully) contributing something useful!

Kate

Roy suggested that someone take minutes of our chats for those of us who miss them - like Kate last night. Will see if i can create another page for this on our wiki - done under 'chat room'. After summarising the chat we had - Chenelle's idea does make sense - organisational theory is what we're supposed to be reading about now - or Leadership - so maybe objective 1 or 2 makes more sense at this stage of our course? what do other's think? Wendy

Yes, thanks Wendy! Now I just have to figure out how to use it... Kind of embarrassed at my lack of wiki experience. If I don't get to talk to you over the weekend, then it'll be next week - hope you all have a great weekend - good luck with the studies. Jess Started a page for my own ideas to be jotted down - may create a link to my blog there when i can find it - u might like to do the same? Wendy

Have just checked the chat discussion during which I was rudely absent last Wednesday - my apologies again, everyone; thanks for filling me in with a summary too. Anyway, have been sifting through some ideas and to me, objective #2 sounds the most appealing (if 'appealing' can be used in an assignment context :-P). It sounds the most manageable of the four and perhaps the most practical in the sense that it relates directly to the work we are or will be doing. Although organisational theory of course also relates, organisations are based on the quality of the leadership within them. To me, objective 2 sounds more relevant to the 'grass roots' level of managing a library/media centre within a school and the building of relationships within that school. What do others think? Kate

That sounds really good Kate, you have made excellent points. As long as it's not on organisation theory - I am finding the readings so very dry! I didn't even get through them when I was stuck in the car for 24 hours over the weekend, I couldn't focus on them for long (not when I had other things I could be reading, such as //Pillars of the Earth//). I don't have very long now to get a handle on things as my cousin is visiting from tonight until Sunday morning, so things are looking a bit grim at the moment! Hope you guys are more in control of your studies than I am right now.

PS- Google Docs as suggested by Roy sounds like a fantastic idea :)

Roy's reply: thanks for the proposal. I think you have taken on 3 big topics. Remember you are talking to non-TLs. Would they know about an ILSC? I doubt it. Collaboration? Not their problem. What is it that managers are looking for? They need someone to help them in their work, not yours. We have to raise an awareness of the skills and knowledge that a TL has that may not be recognised as yet. We need to identify how we can assist in these areas. An example, raise awareness of importance of IL in curriculum, how TL has skills in this area, is an expert infact, and marry these to together to raise awareness of our role as a leader, a middle manager. It is really showing a start to what we can do beyond minding the library. School will gain, students outcomes will improve (this is what is important to school leaders) and your role may be recognised. Start small and build.

Ok guys, I've had a good go at working out the presentation side of things, and I've found it to be quite complex and time wasting. I think I've finally figured out that to load up my own powerpoint file it needs to be a compatible file, so I might leave it for another day to put that theory to the test. The one that I sent to you I dont think we can edit (it keeps asking me to download it instead). I will keep you posted on how I go with it. I think it will be much easier in the long run if we have the colour scheme/fonts worked out at the start than to try to fix them at the end (from experience), because then we can just type or copy in what we need to say and it's all set to go - we only have to edit it once (in theory) instead of having to adjust everything at the end... It does make sense, but let's see what happens I guess :)   15/8 - Ok guys, I've finally had a successful go at making the presentation have a pretty background. I liked the teal colour that someone used, so went with it :) Now I just have to remember how to make it available to all of you... I think we should all work from this copy now as it will be easier to work around the background as you go rather than having to change everythign later if it doesn't suit. Will we be adding pictures in at the end also? I think a few appropriate photos would not be uncalled for - that was seen as appropriate when I did my degree, but I'm not sure if these guys have different expectations?