Life Member

One thing that becomes instantly obvious when you meet Lyn Allsop is her drive to take on new things and that drive serves the QSITE network and learning communities well.

Lyn’s love of the new is also the reason she started using computers early in her career as a primary teacher in Rockhampton. Before long, she was the school expert on ICTs and began helping her colleagues work with ICTs in their own classrooms.

Lyn eventually moved into teacher librarianship believing this role was the best way at the time to bring ICT to all kids. She continued supporting her colleagues with training after school so they could expand her lessons further in their classrooms.

“Trying new things with your kids is the enjoyable part of teaching for me - and I believe teachers have to be enthused by our curriculum to be successful with kids,” Lyn said.

Lyn now calls herself “retired”, but still lectures in Technology at Griffith University and works part-time as a Teacher Librarian when available. Lyn combines her hobbies and expertise teaching digitizing embroidery designs and image transfer to fabric for a local patchwork and quilting club. She is also QSITE treasurer.

In my role as QSITE Treasurer I have found a whole new side to myself. When the President asked me to take it on I couldn’t possibly have predicted how much things were going to change and how much I was going to learn.”

“I have been with QSITE for 15 years, and my membership gives me exactly what ICTs have always given my students: It allows me to collaborate with others and communicate with people I may otherwise never have met, and it connects me with knowledge I want to explore.

Lyn was awarded QSITE Life Membership in 2007 because her career-long enthusiasm for simply giving things a go all adds up to an enormous benefit to kids, teachers and ICT integration in Queensland.