December 09

There has been a lot of discussion around how the ES Team can contribute to the project and we finally agreed that the best way forward would be to ask the students. The general feeling from the students was that it was important to them to maintain the face the face contact as they generally were discussing personal issues. They did however like the idea of being able to book an appointment online and we hope to investigate further ways in which this could be done. We had also hoped that they would be able to contribute to the student PDPs but this looks unlikely as the information is confidential and therefore it not be appropriate to record it in the PDP.

As Christmas approaches we got to host a cluster event with Kingston College, College of West Anglia, Kingston University and de Montfort University on 16th. At this event we were able to showcase what had been done in the classroom with eME and our cluster colleagues got the opportunity to talk with the curriculum team involved. In the afternoon we all participated as a group in the Elluminate workshop 'Engaging and responding to learners'. This was quite an interesting experience which prompted lots of discussion around the table although we probably didn’t contribute too much to the overall event.