Hi, my name is Kate.
I have been working on Learning Platforms and the self review framewok for the last year. Prior to that I worked on all aspects of infrastructure in schools including purchasing, standards ands FITS.
I've just taken a new role working on all aspects of infrastructure in FE Skills & Regeneration. This includes work on Learning Platforms.
My main area of interest is how Learning Platforms can help individuals and instituitions more efficient. This can cover time and effort savings as well as cost.
From a personal point of view I ride, drive and breed Fell Ponies but I've not managed to interest them in Learning Platforms yet. If they can't eat it they're not interested!
I have been working on Learning Platforms and the self review framewok for the last year. Prior to that I worked on all aspects of infrastructure in schools including purchasing, standards ands FITS.
I've just taken a new role working on all aspects of infrastructure in FE Skills & Regeneration. This includes work on Learning Platforms.
My main area of interest is how Learning Platforms can help individuals and instituitions more efficient. This can cover time and effort savings as well as cost.
From a personal point of view I ride, drive and breed Fell Ponies but I've not managed to interest them in Learning Platforms yet. If they can't eat it they're not interested!
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Hi - I'm Roy Kerley, Owner/Director of Synergy Learning - Moodle Partner for UK and Ireland (Synergy Learning)
I guess my interest in this community is one of gaining more of an insight into current thinking on learning platforms amongst users and influencers. Whilst Synergy Learning are Moodle specialists, I promise not to bombard this community with open source propaganda..honestly.
We are currently preparing for The Education Show at the NEC at the end of this month - hope to see some of you there!
I guess my interest in this community is one of gaining more of an insight into current thinking on learning platforms amongst users and influencers. Whilst Synergy Learning are Moodle specialists, I promise not to bombard this community with open source propaganda..honestly.
We are currently preparing for The Education Show at the NEC at the end of this month - hope to see some of you there!
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Hi. I am a partner at onefourseven. We provide a range of advice and support to schools and others in the areas of ICT and education. Like many of us, I imagine, I have a number of roles! At present I am spending a significant amount of my time on work that involves a learning platform. The focus for much of this is teacher or local authority staff collaboration. For example, developing a shared facility with subject leaders from secondary schools within a local authority.
In the past I have been responsible for managing the online collaboration/communication facility for a New Opportunities Funded support provider (London Learning - a partnership between IT Learning Exchange (ITLE), London Metropolitan University and Lambeth Education) to many primary teachers in London schools. That wasn't using what would now be considered a learning platform (we used a product called WebBoard) but did have some common features - primarily organised discussion groups and file sharing.
I have also used Moodle to support teaching assistants in three London local authorities in a programme to develop their IT skills in a technical support role and aiming to achieve an ITQ (NVQ in IT) qualification. ITLE were also experimenting with using Moodle to support internal communications and curriculum development and for developing a wider online community with interested teachers and other 'members'.
Onefourseven is based in London. As some people here may know, the London MLE that many schools and local authorities in London are subscribing to uses Fronter and that is the learning platform that I am most familiar with at present (disclaimer: I also do occasional work for Fronter).
I probably share my interests with many others here (well, I hope so!). Pedagogical issues. What works? Why? How can we share? What new ways of working - both together and alone - are developing? But also the related practical considerations. Classroom and lesson organisation. Which tools are good. How can I use your great idea in my learning platform? And, of course, can we discuss learning platforms in some depth but without forming gangs?
I'm also interested in how on-line applications will co-operate with learning platforms, so here are a couple of links to examples that have impressed me:
bubble.us is an on-line outlining/mindmapping tool
buzzword is a beautifully presented on-line word processing tool (now owned by Adobe)
Ian
In the past I have been responsible for managing the online collaboration/communication facility for a New Opportunities Funded support provider (London Learning - a partnership between IT Learning Exchange (ITLE), London Metropolitan University and Lambeth Education) to many primary teachers in London schools. That wasn't using what would now be considered a learning platform (we used a product called WebBoard) but did have some common features - primarily organised discussion groups and file sharing.
I have also used Moodle to support teaching assistants in three London local authorities in a programme to develop their IT skills in a technical support role and aiming to achieve an ITQ (NVQ in IT) qualification. ITLE were also experimenting with using Moodle to support internal communications and curriculum development and for developing a wider online community with interested teachers and other 'members'.
Onefourseven is based in London. As some people here may know, the London MLE that many schools and local authorities in London are subscribing to uses Fronter and that is the learning platform that I am most familiar with at present (disclaimer: I also do occasional work for Fronter).
I probably share my interests with many others here (well, I hope so!). Pedagogical issues. What works? Why? How can we share? What new ways of working - both together and alone - are developing? But also the related practical considerations. Classroom and lesson organisation. Which tools are good. How can I use your great idea in my learning platform? And, of course, can we discuss learning platforms in some depth but without forming gangs?
I'm also interested in how on-line applications will co-operate with learning platforms, so here are a couple of links to examples that have impressed me:
bubble.us is an on-line outlining/mindmapping tool
buzzword is a beautifully presented on-line word processing tool (now owned by Adobe)
Ian
