ICT in Education

I’ve rather neglected this blog for some time now. Well I’m back now and determined to keep it going this time. Only time will tell if I succeed…

So, what have I been doing since the last post?

• Went to the Naace conference in Torquay in March
• centralised VLE training for primary schools
• individual primary school training on VLEs
• secondary school training on VLEs
• Cars Maths in Motion competition again (with Dr Challoner’s Grammar through to the national final next week! )

As you can see I have been doing a lot of VLE training! There’s plenty more to come over the next year as we continue this, hopefully delivering training to all our schools in that time.

Yesterday I went to Microsoft in Reading for an RM’s LA Partnership Day. It was useful as I haven’t been to one of these for a couple of years (due to RM always announcing the dates with too little notice, though they are finally learning…) We had a chance to hear about changes and improvements to the rm.com website, see the new i-nfer plan assessment package (though we weren’t really the right audience, this should be assessment and primary strategy consultants who are shown this), learn more about the new RM WindowBox. Then in the afternoon there were breakout sessions where I chose to hear about CC4 and Kaleidos (I was hoping to see content rather than just the Learning Platform itself – ho hum). Plus at lunchtime there was an exhibition where I got to see the new 8.9″ screen version of the Asus EeePC ( RM Asus miniBook) and the HP miniNote PC. Hopefully I’ll be getting both of these on a trial in the near future.

So there we have it, a potted catch-up of the last 7 months.

Tags: Asus Eee PC, blog, Cars Maths in Motion, Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion Challenge, Naace, RM Asus miniBook, VLE