Greetings! I am updating this on behalf of Leon, our industry liaison for this project. So, how are we going with our business partner, Pace Print in this project..
Well, Pace Print has experienced unprecedented volumes of production work during late May, June and July. To meet these demands the whole workforce has been stretched to the limit to cope with these seasonal demands. On top of all this, Greg and wife, Amelia (partner in the business) endured moving house and a serious accident with their little boy. It seems that thankfully the worst is over now and we wish the Pace family our sincere best wishes.
On a brighter note, Greg indicated that his printing operator was quite excited to be given the opportunity to be upskilled with a Certificate III in Printing and Graphic Arts (Pre-press). He has emphasised the need for Pace Print to keep "pace" (no pun intended) :) with the lightning speed of technological change. Moving forward Greg is confident that the proposed training will make Pace Print much more flexible in production and more importantly his staff will be much more resourced to cope with further expansion.
On the expansion note because of our E-Learning innovation Greg is expected to apprentice at least one person (possibly two) before the start of our program.
Leon will be attending a IBSA ICP10 Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package Professional Development Workshop on 25th August 2010. This is a face-to-face hands on workshop training that is available for the printing industry i.e. qualifications, where are we up to regarding modern training methods related to current competencies and qualifications, how to structure your training / qualifications to meet your commercial needs and the current status of traineeships / apprenticeships. This workshop will be useful in understanding further where Graphic Pre-press is headed. After recent industry consultation we have come to understand that traineeships / apprenticeships in Graphic Pre-press have in recent times become less popular. The professional development workshop may be useful to educate and unify thinking within the printing industry allowing us more opportunity to understand and meet the changing training requirements.
Exciting times ahead...full of challenges yet it is not impossible to achieve what we have set out to do.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Clash of the Titans
Hi there! A quick update on what's been happening.. As mentioned in my earlier post, Lynda has been busy translating our existing material for one of the core units, Design Concepts into E-Learning materials. We have unaminously decided to use Moodle, a free and dynamic open source E-Learning software platform to deliver part of our training. What is Moodle? I had no idea about it at first, but as we dig in to the project, I have started to gain more understanding of what Moodle is and how it can be used as a tool for online learning. One word - impressive.
Now, Noodle...oops....Moodle (as how Lynda always says it), is all about creating and promoting learning in a web environment. Learners will get to access it whenever and wherever they are as long as there is a computer in front of them. The interesting thing is you have the freedom to design Moodle to complement the corporate image, all to your own liking.
Having said that, because there is too much freedom involved in how you want Moodle to be, Lynda and Greg has been ironing out the details of how our Moodle should look like. Lynda, from a Graphic Design background, wants our Moodle to be engaging and interactive. She based it on the 2 seconds rule where if it is not appealing to you in that 2 second, we have lost you. Greg on the other hand, being an IT guy is thinking about the practicality of the features designed. He is pretty much a problem solver in this situation, constantly thinking what problems might occur if we do it this way or that way.
It was interesting to see the two of them work.They started their own Moodle to try and understand a seemingly complicated, multi choice data-based driven... nightmare! :) It's all good now as the two attempts have been converted into one that contains the same look and feel of our website. Lynda is determined to not have our Moodle look too "Moodley" and Greg is eliminating every possibility of any problems which may occur ever, by anyone in existence and those to come!
That brought the end to the clash of the titans.
Now, Noodle...oops....Moodle (as how Lynda always says it), is all about creating and promoting learning in a web environment. Learners will get to access it whenever and wherever they are as long as there is a computer in front of them. The interesting thing is you have the freedom to design Moodle to complement the corporate image, all to your own liking.
Having said that, because there is too much freedom involved in how you want Moodle to be, Lynda and Greg has been ironing out the details of how our Moodle should look like. Lynda, from a Graphic Design background, wants our Moodle to be engaging and interactive. She based it on the 2 seconds rule where if it is not appealing to you in that 2 second, we have lost you. Greg on the other hand, being an IT guy is thinking about the practicality of the features designed. He is pretty much a problem solver in this situation, constantly thinking what problems might occur if we do it this way or that way.
It was interesting to see the two of them work.They started their own Moodle to try and understand a seemingly complicated, multi choice data-based driven... nightmare! :) It's all good now as the two attempts have been converted into one that contains the same look and feel of our website. Lynda is determined to not have our Moodle look too "Moodley" and Greg is eliminating every possibility of any problems which may occur ever, by anyone in existence and those to come!
That brought the end to the clash of the titans.
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