I emailed the survey request to the entire HRD crew including clerical, producers and directors in October. However, no clerical responded. So I interviewed some of the clerical who thought that the survey response was only expected from the producers and directors. In addition, none had felt that they could check out ipods or join the ipod learning community.
At the November HRD Crew Meeting, the learning activity for the meeting was introducing the ipod technology, podcasts to the entire crew, and sharing the action research work of the producers. I sat at the group table session with the Director of HRD and many clerical members. When I asked about the involvement of clerical to ipod technology learning, the Directors responded that each clerical can make his/her decision on the needs of professional learning.
There can be ways that the clerical can implement use of the ipod technology to their work. It might included podcasts or a learning community through Elluminate/Ebot.
Hopefully, with this ipod examination and comment from the Director, clerical will choose to take time to learn and use ipod technology and respond differently to the next survey requested of all crew members.
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You have identified a gap in our department between the expectations of our own professional development. The clerical comment of “…the clerical who thought that the survey response was only expected from the producers and directors.” And the Director’s response of, “…each clerical can make his/her decision on the needs of professional learning”.
Since HRD does not have their own Induction plan, I am not sure how far self-directed (and Director supported) learning will take place with the clerical. Perhaps there a need to develop the Trainers/Designers Podcast series for aspiring future staff developers.
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