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Communication Strategy
Partnerships in Catholic Educational Leadership is part of the leadership development strategy of the Catholic Schools Office, Waitara developed on behalf of staff working within schools in the Broken Bay diocese
An electronic newsletter will be the avenue through which members of the various research groups liaise with each other and the project officer. This will also provide a conduit to Principals of all schools within
the diocese who may wish to be kept informed of the progress of the overall programme and the projects themselves.
Programme website
The website provides programme participants with an accessible, first-point-of-call resource of information about the Partnerships in Catholic Educational Leadership programme. This includes an overview of the
programme, a time line and anticipated programme outcomes.
It is a safe website designed to support the programme participants through the provision of information, online support and exchange of ideas for the duration of the project overall. This means that
most of the site will be available only to those participants who have been accepted onto the programme.
It is expected that that the web site will continue to be operational until at least the completion of the initial programme involving the first cohort of participants ie June 2001.
Functions of the website
The website is built around the following functions:
- general information about the programme and the steering committee
- a repository for resources to support research project teams
- a discussion forum for supporting project-related dialogue
- a general site search
- contact information and e-mails
- Levels of access
The website development team is conscious of the need to balance security with accessibility in the design of the site. The current security model has three levels of access designed to support the widest possible
dissemination of information while retaining necessary security over project specific details. The three levels are as follows:
Public
The website is partially viewable to the non-participant public. The part of the website that is unprotected is the section which provides general information about the project called About.
Participant – General
All programme participants have access (upon provision of a password) to the discussion forum. This level is intended as the main interaction environment for programme participants.
Project –Specific
Each project research team has password access to the information stored in the database on its own project. This data is editable, and teams are responsible for ensuring that their project descriptions are
informative and current
The actual site will initially be quite simple in its layout and content base and will have the following fields:
About
This section provides a context for the leadership programme, its rationale, protocols and outcomes.
Project overview
Research projects will be documented re the nature of their research and any other relevant information appropriate to the project.
Project Resources
The aim of this part of the website to provide programme participants with a moderated collection of quality resources to support their research. This will be provided by the project officer and will contain
electronic down-loadable materials, and references to non-electronic, or copyright protected materials.
It is also intended to include a reciprocal functionality which allows project participants to themselves contribute resources (or information about resources) likely to be useful for other participants.
Discussion Forum
To support the development of participant discourse, a discussion forum is provided as a communal messaging facility. The design of the forum aims to address the need for focussed discussion groups while ensuring
that all exchanges are available at a participant level. By ensuring that all messages are at one level viewable by participants, it is hoped that a culture of collaboration and support will emerge.
Contact
Additional project support is provided via a number of direct email links to project support personnel, as well as phone, fax and mail information
Entering your research project information
The research part of the site provides the opportunity for all project teams to identify their areas of research and the research questions they are addressing as part of Partnerships in Catholic Educational
Leadership initiative.
This information will, it is hoped, encourage participants to network and exchange information and experiences during their time on the programme.
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