Focus on Interactions: A self paced school development process with on-line concept map & personal portfolio

This project focuses attention on the interactions that occur in the school and with associated educators. It begins, for participants, in thinking about their current work. In particular it will help them think and talk about the interactions they have with others and how they select and use evidence of what they do in creating wider meaning about the effect of their work for students in the school.

An integral part of the project is a browser accessed concept map which provides guidance and a structure for constructing a personal portfolio containing evidence of practice with associated critique.

The Conceptual Map, a collection of templates, is designed to be both an index and a organiser, and is fashioned from a new set of ideas or strands around how we can think about interactions. It is designed as a means of sharing, in a structured way, some of the experiences practitioners are having. We are presenting this as a different way of thinking about schools. It is advanced as a metaphor that we have called the school as a social incubator which illustrates the strands of growth and adaptation.

Modules are now available and which may be addressed in any order. Please refer to the Matrix of study and reading modules for an overview.If these ideas interest you please go to The Registration Page.

For those who may wish to experiment with the digital and virtual elements of this kind of development please refer to:
Ken Stevens and David Stewart. (2005) Cybercells: Learning in Actual and Virtual Groups, Thomson Learning, Melbourne, Australia. Click here to order a copy

Please click below for Quick Links to some major concepts: