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=**Plan B**= toc

**Contact**
Bernadette Harris hb [at] harrisbromly.com.au

**Category**
Empowering learners/RTO-Business Partnership

Executive summary
This **Project** explored the use of **mediacasting** in online learning programs. We developed audio/video resources for use as part of a combined learning mode program. It included key interviews on Leadership and trialled mediacasting by students and teachers to WordPress MU. Some teachers and students used mobile technologies to cast their media. The trial was conducted with online learners from the NSW Office of Water currently enrolled in a joint IPAA NSW - Harris Bromly BSB40807 Certificate IV in Frontline Management - being delivered using a blended (combined) mode program.

The media resources developed were from interviews conducted with Leadership experts (including Nigel Paine, former head of BBC Learning and Development and now a leading international Leadership consultant, and Alastair Rylatt, one of Australia's leading Leadership and Change Management consultants).

Key activities in this project provide a platform for e-learning that are being incorporated into IPAA’s 2010 Professional Development calendar. This project links directly to Strategic Intent 2 of the IPAA NSW 2008-2010 Strategic Plan:
 * //Develop and promote IPAA NSW role in organisational capacity building for the public sector.//

** Group Blog Using Mediacasting: **
If you visit the Certificate IV in Frontline Management Blog you will see soem of the media files developed and posted by students in response to the vodcasts developed for the project.

** E-learning Vodcasts: Leadership Series: **
Interviews are with **Nigel Paine**, former head of BBC Learning and Development and now a leading international Leadership consultant, and **Alastair Rylatt** , one of Australia's leading Leadership and Change Management consultants. the series is available from the links below or through iTunes.

[|Episode 1: Why Organisations Need Leadership - Nigel Paine] [|Episode 2: Why Organisations Need Leadership - Alastair Rylatt] [|Episode 3: Leadership in Public Sector Organisations - Nigel Paine] [|Episode 4: Leadership in Public Sector Organisations - Alastair Rylatt] [|Episode 5: Cynicism in Organisations - Nigel Paine] [|Episode 6: Cynicism in Organisations - Alastair Rylatt] [|Episode 7: What Use Are Leadership Theories? - Nigel Paine] [|Episode 8: Leadership Theories: Are they any use? - Alastair Rylatt discusses] [|Episode 9: Are Leaders Born or Made? - Nigel Paine answers] [|Episode 10: Can You Learn to be a Leader - Alastair Rylatt] [|Episode 11: Working Together, Apart - Nigel Paine] [|Episode 12: Tips for Staying Together While Working Apart – Alastair Rylatt]

E-learning09 Presentation
Listen to our elearning09 presentation here

Acknowledgements
The Project achived its outcomes and was successful because of the contribution, support and committment of the following people.

@Jo Kay for her generous spirit, willingness to pick up the ball when others have dropped it and her general cleverness


 * Val Evans** who despite increasing pressure in her own domain, remains a source of knowledge and support to others.

Stephan Ridgway who has absolutely NO LIFE whatsoever outside of VET, who works tirelessly to deliver incredible audio/visual products for so many in the VET sector.


 * Rebecca Gilvear, Emily Anderson** and **Darren Baker** from NSW IPAA without whose involvement the Plan B Project could never have happened. The @NSW IPAA Council and Chief Executive Officer Paul Doorn for their continuing support of Harris Bromly and our e-learning endeavours.

And, last but by no means least.... the **BSB40807 Certifcate IV in Frontline Management students** from the NSW Office of Water especially those who beat all time barriers and developed and uploaded their own digital media content - some of whom had never really had anything much to do with computers before this course - you are legends and you know who you are.

//**Thank you all.**//