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 * Tips for Engaging others**

Probing questions to allow people to express and move past their concerns: Avoid the tyranny of the expert - make a point of sharing your 'stuff ups' - it makes you far more approchable. Use backwards chaining - do everything for them but the last step so they experience success, next time do everything but the last two steps, keep retreating a step at a time. Look for high leverage hook-ins - right now consider your school focus area, persuasive writing, Australian Curriculum: History. Provide professional readings for your PLC meetings that link ICT with your focus area. Know your crowd: Collect attitudinal data from your teachers and students:
 * What concerns you the most with using ICT?
 * What do you feel you are good at?
 * What woould you feel comfortable trying?
 * If you were going to try something, what might it be?
 * What would be the best way to support you?
 * How confident are you using...
 * I don't know what this is
 * I'm trying to learn this
 * I'm fairly confident
 * I'm confident and I can teach others
 * I believe...
 * I use ICT to...
 * Where would you like to be in five years in terms of integrating ICT?
 * If I had a vision for my school in utilising ICT, I would see...

Use the Cathednet Rubric to support you discussions/rquests with your leaderwhip team.

//How do I deal with people who refuse to participate in a meeting or alternatively dominate a meeting?// Use some protocols (links on main page) that ensure all people get a chance and are limited to participating equally. Your Coordinator of Professional Learning is a good resource bank for this. //How do I deal with people who hijack the topic and take a meeting off task?// Acknowledge thjeir idea, confirm it is important and ask them to record it on a chart for later investigation.
 * Dealing with Difficult People**

To Do:
 * Creating a Networked Learning Community**
 * Develop a problem of practice you wish to investigate within the context of engaging your colleagues in ICT
 * Decide how you will gather data to measure your progress
 * Decide as a group how often you will come together for real time communication and what ICT you will use.
 * Organise dates
 * Decide as a group how oftern you will share your journey using asynchronus technologies (blogs, Web 2 apps like voicethread)
 * Decide as a group how you will comment on each others investigation
 * Identify a key contact to liaise with new ICT consultant


 * Pressure**: Task is part of your course as Key Teacher
 * Support**: one another and new ICT consultant
 * Accountability**: Be prepared to present your journey with supporting sata at the next PD day in Term 3