personas

Here are some of the people who might want to be part of our community. The **English staff** are keen to take their turn at the computers but are not quite sure what they should be doing there. (photo by [|**Jon Shave**]) Teacher moderator: After retiring as English Coordinator in 2004, **Brian Thomas** has been a casual teacher at St Luca's once every fortnight or so, and in his free time has learned a great deal more about ICT than he knew when he was on the staff full-time. Brian is the moderator for the Literature ^ Stage 5 discussion group on Learn2. ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/61849767_5bd30689de_m.jpg align="right"]]St Luca's is a Catholic high school which has put a lot of resources into setting up enough computer rooms for each class to be able to access a lab each week.
 * [[image:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2437712865_0b163e08c1_m.jpg align="left"]]Janice is the mother of Sharlia and Tyke and volunteers as a Year 2 class helper at Wilcannia Central School on Tuesday afternoons. She wants to contact primary school parents in other parts of Australia and see how they are publishing Indigenous community languages on class websites.

Photo by [|**tysonA**] || Kane is the moderator for the Language ^ Stage 2 discussion group and monitors the spelling bee competitions for the community. || Molly likes old-fashioned pursuits such as books and vegetable gardening. Among her friends are the parents of her boys' schoolfriends, especially from pre-school. She tries not to volunteer for anything at school except reading sessions.
 * Kane is an ICT support person for three primary schools in a large country town. He is enthusiastic about web applications that encourage children to enjoy learning their spelling.
 * [[image:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2959785536_b0c080c5f7_m.jpg align="left" caption="Molly, mother of 2"]]Molly is around 30 and works 2 days a week. She has 2 sons, Sean (8) and Eddie (3). She doesn't have a computer at home yet but takes the boys down to the library on the weekend and lets them have a go there, under supervision.

photoby [|**sean dreilinger**] || Joe is a bit of a gadget man and loves his video camera. He is thinking of taking a video of his mother telling the boys about when she was a little girl in Northern Ireland. If it was OK with the rest of the community, he would like to put this up on the community under the 'Digital storytelling' link. || She wants to see if there is a lesson plan on developing wikis for science.
 * < Ian Timms has a son in Year 11 and is President of the Waratah Hills Christian School P&F and would be interested to talk to other parents making decisions about computer purchases. He wants to know more about the teaching innovations that are likely over the next ten years or so. ||
 * Ann is the big sister and guardian of Audrey, who is 13 and has been living in north-west Sydney since 2003 when her family came to Australia, and is doing well in her year 8 English class and likes to chat with her friends in a kids online community. Ann helps Audrey with her homework after dinner and wants to learn more about the books that Australian-born children read and what they think about them. ||
 * Joe and his wife Bernie have two boys, 13 and 16, who are reluctant readers. He went to the Year 7 'Back to School' night where the English teacher had the parents contribute to the class wiki. He's decided he wants to find out more, so he can encourage his sons.
 * [[image:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1300/1288762325_795533b478_m.jpg align="right"]]Susan Beuzel is a teacher at Redcliff Primary, Brisbane. She wants to help her children learn to write explanations as part of a unit about sea science.

photo by [|**Swansea Photographer**] || She doesn't know much about the curriculum requirements yet and will also need resources on that.
 * [[image:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2021/2538283980_7f63143b71_m.jpg align="left" caption="Marita and Rosalie, student teachers"]]Marita is a student teacher of English as a Second Language and wants to find out what kind of language software tools are available with a Web 2.0 flavour.

photo by [|**Cam Pervan**] || Model persona: e.g. []