The Project Steams Ahead!

Call for Proposals

Kathy, Anne and I met on Monday to discuss the content for call for proposals. Kathy will write up a draft call and send it to me early next week and I’ll send it to the advisory committee for comment. It will be posted on May 17, so if you know a program that might be interested please let them know.

To give programs a “heads up” about the project, we are sending a short notice about the call to CLO so it can be posted in their next monthly e-bulletin. The project does not have the funding to travel to far reaching places or for program staff to come to Kingston. Hence we need to limit the geographic range for programs within a 500 kilometre radius of Kingston. We’ll also send the notice to networks within that range.

There is funding to provide instructor support (about 3 hours per week) for three rural programs. This will be our way to provide service to more rural locations.

Online Course Designer

On Friday, April 23 we are interviewing three candidates for the Online Course Designer position. We had a number of applicants, but not many who have the background we are looking for. Let’s hope one of the candidates we interview is “the one”!

Facilitator’s Manual

I’m working on the Facilitator’s Manual. Lesley Hamilton is reviewing the themes with an essential skills lens. This is very helpful for me because I don’t have much experience with essential skills and I want to make sure it’s correct and worthwhile for instructors.

Reminder about Quarterly Reports

I’ll be sending the quarterly report forms out to those who have “in-kind” arrangements with KL+S for this project towards the end of next week. They’ll need to be returned by May 15.

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