About this site
This site is a working site which allows for the use of a whole range of web 2.0 tools all easily installed from within Fantastico.
This front page and entry point is simply a WordPress blog. WordPress is something I’ve become very much a bit fan of for ease and flexibility of use along with the way in which themes can be modified.
About Roger
Roger Pryor is currently a School Education Director (SED) with the NSW Department of Education and Training, based in Newcastle in the Hunter Central Coast Region.
Within this role Roger has oversight of 33 schools and a range of regional portfolio responsibilities including the integration of ICT within quality teaching.
Prior to this, Roger was a primary school Principal in 5 different schools for 16 years and was then successful in gaining a position as a deployed Principal within the Leadership Development Unit and then as the Website Manager, Secretary, and later full-time President, of the NSW Primary Principals’ Association.
Roger initially trained as a Secondary English/History teacher and has worked in a variety of roles including Teacher-in-Charge in a Juvenile Justice school, Program Director in a Sport and Recreation Centre and as Co-Ordinator for the Department’s Hyde Park program in the 1982 Festival of Sydney.
Along with his role as a School Education Director, Roger is also the President of the Hunter Branch of the Australian College of Educators, a Board member for the Tantrum Theatre Company and the website manager for the Newcastle New Institute.
In addition, Roger has worked as a solo guitar vocalist and a member of duos and trios over many years entertaining on the club and pub circuit.
Roger has been a long time user of ICT within schools and life generally and is committed to the opportunities which can be created to engage students and to facilitate a range of other processes which are fundamental to quality educational delivery. Roger has presented to a wide variety of groups in NSW and elsewhere, including via webinar for ISTE, at the 2010 ACEC conference in Melbourne and as an invited keynote at the CEGSA conference 2010 in Adelaide. Roger has been consistent in the assertion that we need to move from ‘school planning’ to ‘planning school’ if we are to deliver education in optimum ways for our students. In late 2008, Roger created the HCCWEB2 space to provide an environment for a large number of school and other groups to collaborate online.
Roger was recently recognised by the Capital Region Society for Technology in Education as an inaugural recipient of their Leadership and Vision Award and will be an invited presenter at their Global Symposium to be held online in October 2010.
