Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Promoting the Moodle VLE

The first meeting of the Virtual Learning was held and went extremely well. We agreed on some dates for awareness sessions and training. The newsletter was circulated to the group and in the absence of any objections was sent around to all mailboxes in the first instance, though it did prove necessary to also include a reminder for booking via email. One point for future reference however is to include anything you really want noticed on the front page, should be obvious really.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

AOC Nilta Staff Development Annual Conference

The conference was held at a venue close to Milton Keynes. Not a bad journey though I still have difficulty with the M25, how can you end up stationary in the fast lane of a motorway that runs in a circle? Anyway the event was very good and not just the wide variety of food. A particularly interesting (worrying) presentation on e-portfolios!! and I discovered some really good resources in the form of pathe news clips. Given the publication from the Dfes "Harnessing Technology", VLEs like Moodle are likley to become increasingly attractive and a lot of interest was on show.

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Generating new interest

A very promising visit from another local college of FE and HE with regard to Moodle uptake, it seems almost certain that they will elect to make use of the VLE in favour of other products. I am also having some success in the area of six form colleges, with invites to visit IT managers and members of senior management teams on the subject.