[Offtopic] Re: www.vit.pdi.vic.edu.au

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hi John and all,

 http://www.vit.pdi.vic.edu.au/

One would applaud this VIT Professional Development initiative. Not only
will it be of practical benefit to individual members, and the profession, 
it's another way for the VIT to provide a visable service to members. Then 
again, I think the VIT should provide we members with email-addresses. And,
given this PD initiative .. offer incentives for PD providers to 'go bush'


From:   pdi at vit.vic.edu.au 
To:   stephen at melbpc.org.au
CC: english at edulists.com.au,
itapps at edulists.com.au,offtopic at edulists.com.au,pdi at vit.vic.edu.au 
Date:   Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:12:56 +1000 
Subject:   Re: o/t: the VIT associated with spam email? 
 
Dear Stephen, 

The email you received was an ecard as part of the launch of the new 
Professional development search engine Pdi. The search engine has been 
developed in response to the needs of Victorian teachers to find quality 
PD in the one place. Over 12 000 teachers responded to a survey in 2006 
and clearly articulated a need for access to Pd which did not rely on 
existing modes of delivery in schools.  There are also over 30000 teachers 
in Victoria who are registered but are not in a school.  Pdi will enable 
them to find out what is  available and of interest to them. 

Pdi is a managed search engine so all courses and programs uploaded are 
current and are relevant in terms of the standards of professional 
practice for renewal of registration and the principles of effective 
professional learning 

The email sent out has embedded HTML but is perfectly safe and the size of 
the images (considerably less than the average web page) is designed to be 
efficiently opened by systems which allow html emails.  Where this is not 
the case the text containing details of the initiative, will open. 

The Melbourne PC user group might be interested in becoming a registered 
PD provider on Pdi.  The types of training offered by your organisation 
are very much in demand by many teachers, particularly those coming back 
from leave or who work as casual relief and emergency teachers and don't 
have the same access to the ITC PD available in schools. 

I'd be more than happy to discuss this with you and any members of your 
organisation at your convenience. 

Regards, 

John Mildren 

Manager, Professional Development 
--

Cheers, John
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia