3 carriage train - reflection

Thinking about ray nashar's leading innovation clip 

This short animation created by Ray Nashar is an inspirational clip that explores the role of an eLearning guru's role - or in fact anyone's role -  in transforming and leading innovation. 

Just like Ray the person, I found the animation to be thought provoking and engaging which led me to reflect upon his musings. As a rad side note, the animation was made using Keynote, a free iPad App - a creative idea of a powerful tool! 

You can download the ePub used with the clip here;
http://bit.ly/MyGox8. 

CONNECT - "It's not coming up with the ideas, it's spreading them" is the point that resonated with me. I have so many ideas about how eLearning could be used to enhance learning and teaching, reporting, the delivery of curriculum, the process' we use in schools and the list goes on. And what is a priority for some staff is varied from another - how do we enable all staff to grow in their eLearning at the point they are ready to? How to get others on board with this is always an important question,  so it's not just powerful, connected eLearning for some but for all students.

EXTEND - The notion of occasionally dipping into the top carriage made me realise this can be done using ICT - why not set up a learni.st board for those top users to tap into when they need inspiration? What about a PD twitter feed for those keen to find out more? What about a monthly Techie Breaky aimed at top users and advancing their skills - or even better supporting them to present their ideas as well? This would work especially well at multi-campus colleges. 

CHALLENGE - The next challenge that springs to mind is once you have people moving into those first few carriages how to you ensure you continue to challenge and grow their capacity - essentially rearranging the carriages again?  The dynamic, behaviour and norms will have shifted  but how to sustain that is interesting and exciting. Another challenge is how do you celebrate the courageous first middle car movers  to encourage and "..influence but not directly" without alienating the other 2 carriages? It highlights the importance and value of peer sharing and peer modelling aside from having just the eLearning leader as the expert.