Feedback comment in discussion of blog message written by OL Group blog members:-

Feedback comment in discussion of blog message written by OL Group blog members:-

I would like to give sincere thanks to my OL Group blog members (Oscar Chan, Alvis Chan, Eric Leung and Maria Wong) writing their blog messages during these eight weeks.  Please find enclosed feedback comments made by me on their blog message contributed from week 1 to week 8.  I would summarize other comments made at other blog members after my sick leave at 10 April 2012.  Hope that we can build up a ePortfolio platform in sharing our teaching and learning experience in our organization.

Week	Group	Group members
Week 8	OL group	Alvis Chan Thanks for your comments in other blogs. I really appreciate the coursemates who devote lots of time in writting their blogs and share their experience. May we build a network blog with our coursemates and Dr Bob Fox that we can share our new knowledge and experience in our future teaching career. Eric Leung Eric, thanks for your comment for MITEChange Blog. I understand the heavy teaching and admin workload faced by our coursemates but I do agree with Leo that more coursemates' contribution will be better in contributing their writing and experience in the blog message. However, their blog coursemates do participate in blog discussion and collaboration in sharing their work in writing the blog. Good job. Oscar Chan Feedback comment:  Thanks for your sharing of your draft planning of individual assignment. The plan is systematic and logical flow in interlinking to what you write in our blog message from week 2 to week 5. As a professional educator, we should share knowledge and teaching experience that benefits our students and us at near future. Let us build up professional teachers' network after taking the course MITE6328 Organizational Learning.
Week 7	OL Group	Oscar Chan It really a problem of the increase of new babies borne by non-local parents. If the government has not adopted suitable measure to stop this issue. There will be a great problem in our local education and medical policy in Hong Kong. Alvis Chan Thanks for your video sharing about the 9-phases for a scenario planning analysis. It is interesting to read your suggesed six possible course of actions to address the scenarios in our college. If more time is allowed, I guess you may spend time to study the course actions and see which area can be improved and revised. Good work in writing your scenario plan. Eric Leung Eric, I agree with the current situation in Hong Kong. Low birth rate of HK kids, high incoming of Mainland Chinese kids from poor class families will make the education system and policy more worse and bankrupt. Creating one "alliance" of primary and secondary schools and colleges will play an important role in future education trend. Staff and students resources can be better distributed at coming futre. We can take Baptist schools, Baptist SCE colleges and Baptist University as good example in illustration. How about Caritas? They have adopted the same strategy as well. Good strategic plan is made by the management.
Week 6	OL Group	Oscar Chan Oscar. Thanks for your view. Innovation is good for adapting change and challenge. However, users are afraid of using new technology and system in their job. They may get use of the old and traditional methods like educators. Education is a more stable job to certain senior and old teachers. They resist to new change and only contempt in their current unchanged situation in their teaching job. As a professional educator, let us move a big step and meet the change as challenges in our life. Alvis Chan Alvis, What an impresed story! With innovative use of technology, you can motivate students more attentive at mass lectures. That shows you have spent much time and paid great effort in preparing your teaching materials. Thanks for your sharing. You shows us a good example of being a professional teacher. Good job.
Week 5	Other blog member OL Group	Chris Chan (Maria Wong feedback comment to Chris Chan from other Blog) Thanks for your suggestion. I will raise out at our finance team meeting and suggest the popular lecturer to read the website link and see if he can improve the over-crowded mass lecture at next semester. Good idea. Oscar Chan Oscar, I agree your college situation really reflect the traditional management culture of top management in schools and colleges. The management and mid-evel administrators have their own ways of thinking and suggested solutions and seldom spend time to discuss the problems concerned and alternative solutions with the frontline users like students and teachers. Two way communication between management and staff should be encouraged. Training and education should be provided to staff for better enhancement of staff learning and professional knowledge in organization. Alvis Chan Alvis, I agree with your observation and hope our management will play a leading role in implementing the change in learning and avoid one-way communication with our staff at college. A good leadership and feedback learning environment is important for good learning organization.
Week 4 Activity (a) Professional development Activity (b) What professional development happens in your workplace	OL Group	Alvis Chan Thanks for your sharing. I understand our current encountering situation. To meet the new change, we need to spend much time and lots of efforts in equipping the New GE subject knowledge and teaching skills in our new academic year. Alvis Chan Action plan I do agree with my member that an action plan should be implemented at different phase stage. An IT coordinator should be appointed by top management and hold meetings with different stakeholders like principals, teachers and representative students for discussion of the plan. After collecting their opinion, the IT coordinator will draw up a plan at different phase stages and invite all stakeholders to participate in the implementation. An independent committee which consists of top management, teachers and administrators should be set up to monitor the action plan being successfully implemented at college or school. Review meeting will be held at regular intervals say once per quarter of a year. Feedback from users will be collected and discussed for further improvement at meeting.
Week 2	OL Group	Eric Leung Eric, thanks for your view in using Kotter's 8-Step Change Model to share the change in I.T. infrastructure at your school. In order to upgrade your school's computers, the above 8 steps are comprehensive and useful for implementation. I agree the following steps are necessary for successful change implemenation. -step 1: Create urgency -step 3: Create a vision for change - step 4:  Communicate the vision - step 7:  Build on the change - step 8: Anchor the Changes in Corporate Culture
Week 1	OL Group	Eric Leung Eric, thanks for your sharing experience at your workplace. If time is allowed, I suggest a committee will be set up and comprise team members of IT teachers/officials and top management. Review and study on implementation of new IT & system should be practised. Oscar Chan Oscar, thanks for your sharing. It is not easy to change the mindset and traditional learning for old and senior people. However, the top management of your college should take a leading role in motivating staff to accept and adapt the new change of system and policy. It seems that the Senge's five principles are difficult to be practised at your school.