Archive for September, 2014

“Nonsense. Pretty much sums up everything”. – Albert Einstein

Elan Projects turned 1!

James, Linden, Nina and Andrew blow out the candle on a great first year.

Hip  hooray! James, Linden, Nina and Andrew blow out the candle.

Elan Projects turned one. It has been an excellent first year, filled with challenging projects, cool tech and memorable people.

So much this year could be called a highlight. Here are just a few things that thrilled:

– Finishing our Go Go Gadget BYOD for VET research project with a web app that simplifies reading the extensive guidelines and developing Bring Your Own Device policy for organisations.

– Writing the course materials for the entire Network Engineering subject for the Australian Computer Society’s Diploma course in five short weeks (!).

– Hosting the Inaugural Remote-Drink-along (stay tuned for the next one – it’s coming in October!)

– Teaching members of the Country Women’s Association how to maintain the content on their website – from scratch.

CWA members learning to use WordPress to maintain their own website.

CWA members learning to use WordPress to maintain their own website.

 

– Taking a group of careers advisors on “Flipped Excursions” into industry settings like joinery factories and coffee roasteries – where the teachers stayed put and the remote host took them on a live interactive guided tour into the “Staff Only” areas of their workplaces.

– Producing the IT’s Your Career launch simultaneously between Hobart and Launceston, with presenters and regional groups of people at each end. We mixed industry talks and presentations via video hookup with local speed recruitment activities and team building challenges. Project managing IT’s Your Career v.2.o this year again, we’re building on the experience from v.1.0.

– Creating a new model for collaborating, learning and consulting using technology called Group Sense. It’s coming on Monday!

Year Two is off and racing, with a number of exciting projects bubbling away already. Thank you to everyone who has been along for the ride this first year of Elan’s life. It’s been a cracker!

Many thanks to the clever Molly Kendall who took the pictures.

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