As part of our funding closing arrangements, we created a digital story to promote our project.
To create this visual story of what happened with our project I developed a storyboard which you can find here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y49gvp48rn4ve6l/ELPAS83%20Digital%20Story.pdf
This storyboard set out which resources to use, and the narration for the audio, which became the closed captioning text as required for accessability. We have the Adobe C6 suite installed on our work computers, so I used Adobe Audition 6 to capture the audio. You can learn how to use this program, or any of the Adobe suite products at http://tv.adobe.com/ (I try to spend an hour every Friday afternoon learning how to use various products – easy professional development training)
You can watch the finished story here:
What I didn’t say in the story.
There is always a behind-the-scenes version of any project, and ours had several layers of frustration.
- The main one was that although this project was initiated by industry, our partner couldn’t find enough interested members to participate. We had planned for 10 participants and two trial groups – one in the City and one in the regions.
- Our industry partner also didn’t appear to fully understand the concept of co-contribution, and that this meant they had to invest from their own budget as well as the funding arrangements. They actively sent e-newsletters to their members, but there was no on-the-ground support to ensure planned activities could be realised. In the end it was our Automotive teacher, Jeff, and his strong industry networks that convinced a local company to participate.
- All small businesses have such tight budgets it is hard to convince them to participate in an un-tried technological project. Our Institute Director ended up approving the waiver of enrolment fees so that we could get 3 participants to enrol.
- The automotive industry is still on a technology learning curve, and this project may have been ahead of current confidences.
- Megan, our business teacher, worked many uncosted hours to learn the technology and be confident in front of industry when they met. She had never used an iPad before, but soon championed the benefits. She also had to learn to present using a webinar, and to customise her RPL documents to Performax’s business.
- The Bundaberg natural disasters of January 2103 meant our campus was the base for Community Recovery efforts for several months. Project members were personally affected and local automotive business struggled to keep their doors open – let alone participate in a project not considered core business.
We had confidence in our project though, and this gave us sustained energy to meet these challenges and our project’s deliverables.
Sustainability
Performax are using the iAuditor app for their 5S quality checks (read about 5 S here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology) and Wide Bay TAFE are investigating using this app for the quality documents when off the network to lower their carbon footprint.
E-teaching 