January 2009

The year began well with a launch to the Diploma team during our January learning days. Separate sessions took place reviewing the Moodle facilities with both curriculum and support staff. There’s still a lot of work to do structuring the site but the teams are all enthusiastic and raring to go. We’re looking at how various different technologies can enhance learning and the team were able to feed back on what was happening in the school with Mobile Devices, Web Conferencing and Google Applications. We hope to pilot a selection of components and applications during this academic year in order to inform the Learner Portal that will be introduced to Diploma learners in September.

Bev (she’s doing our evaluation – you can link to her blog on the right) and I attended the JISC evaluation event in Birmingham which was really worthwhile (especially the chocolate cookie evaluation) and left us with a lot to think about. It also gave us an opportunity to catch up with the other members of our cluster group and meet our critical friend Andrew Comrie.