[Offtopic] Facebook and staff productivity

[Cameron Bell]

Have you ever wondered if, at a staff meeting, the person twiddling the 
paperclips or catching up on email is also the teacher who demands that 
students sit and listen to them and show complete attention for 50+ minutes?
Staff meetings should be run the same way as we aspire to teach all our 
classes, after all, information is being passed on, expected to be acted 
upon and outcomes produced - it's just that the audience is a little (or 
a lot ;) ) older.
Does anyone have any examples of an engaging, productive staff meeting 
and how it was achieved?
Cheers
Cameron


Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> Sorry .. I bumped the keyboard when I hit send (or I believe that the 
> text below can be heavily compressed into a single character)
>
> I agree with Maggie, it isn't for me to decide how staff use their 
> free time.
>
> At the last school meeting, somebody was reshaping paperclips holding 
> reports into strange artwork whilst glancing at his phone, another was 
> doodling mindless pictures in the agenda margin whilst a third was 
> dipping into the lolly jar (probably to boost glucose levels and 
> attention). I'll admit to catching up on his edumail and updating a 
> blog .. I nervously, loudly and continually crack my knuckles if my 
> hands are not occupied.
>
> This fellowship has some important social functions that probably date 
> back to the times when we would sit about in a circle and groom each 
> other. I would like to think that we are professional enough to get on 
> with our work and complete the important tasks first.
>
> (scratch scratch scratch)
>
>
> On 20/04/2008, *Roland Gesthuizen* <rgesthuizen at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     c
>     Regards Roland
>
>
>     On 08/04/2008, *Maggie Iaquinto* <IAQUIM at bialik.vic.edu.au
>     <mailto:IAQUIM at bialik.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
>
>         Thank you very much, Geoff.
>
>         In one way it is annoying that tech staff make judgments on
>         teaching
>         staff productivity. The counter argument is that everything
>         tech staff
>         do on our network will have a technological, economic and/or
>         social
>         implication. In this case, it is mostly a social implication.
>
>         In the end, we should all be able to choose how we use our
>         'free' time.
>         As Ros succintly put it -- should be ban newspapers, sudoku,
>         visiting
>         domaindotcomdotau or doing email activities?
>
>         I'll have a read shortly.
>
>         Regards
>
>         Maggie
>
>
>
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au
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>         [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au
>         <mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Geoff Moss
>
>         Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2008 9:13 AM
>         To: Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List
>         Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Facebook and staff productivity
>
>
>         Hi Maggie
>
>         Unfortunately, the article I was thinking of was related to email,
>         rather than FaceBook.
>
>         The link to the email article:  "Email is ruining my life" is:
>
>           http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7281707.stm
>
>         There is also a link to a VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS item : How to stop
>         e-mails taking over your day
>
>         However, a search on Google of:    Facebook "Staff
>         Productivity"    does
>         produce some interesting items.
>
>         Is Facebook good for the workplace?   at URL:
>         http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,22437742-5012424,00.html
>         produces some interesting comments from Australian
>         businesses.  Well
>         worth a look.
>
>         Facebook time-wasters could cost $5 billion a year:
>         http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22273758-2,00.html
>
>         Employers disagree over Facebook use and misuse:
>         http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/24/2041517.htm
>
>         Staff productivity in the Facebook era
>         http://www.businesszone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=175943&d=1114&h=1097&f
>         <http://www.businesszone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=175943&d=1114&h=1097&f>
>         =1096&dateformat=%25o%20%25B%20%25Y
>
>         An interesting discussion forum is at
>         http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/895341.html
>
>         Hope this helps
>
>         Geoff Moss
>         RMIT
>
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>     -- 
>     Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
>     http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>
>     "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
>     can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
>     --Margaret Mead 
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> -- 
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can 
> change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." 
> --Margaret Mead