I have set up this blog as a kind of online, ongoing staff development session, giving us the chance to record, reflect on and share what we find out.
It's a way of carrying on from the plenary session of last week's training days, when people were able to start sharing experiences and thoughts. It also gives those who were not there last week the chance to catch up a bit with what was said.
It's also a way of recording what we learn from week to week, so that when we have a Friday afternoon staff development session later this term, we don't struggle too much to recall what we did.
Asking teachers to record lesson plans for a Resources Bank is OK, but there are many other micro-skills that we will all pick up and this seems like a good way of passing them on. Also, this is different from the Blue Room experience: the learning curve is steeper and it's every day, not once a week; we also have more teachers working different days now and so it seemed easier to use a blog to keep in touch.
I hope people will use it to comment and to post about their experiences and thoughts, on PCs and whiteboards, on WebCT, the R drive, on teaching in classrooms without an interactive board and anything else related to learning technologies.
David
Just a brief comment for now to see how this blog works. Great that the whiteboards are in - all very exciting. We're all on a steep learning curve, but it seems to be going well. Here's to it! Sure that before long it will feel like we have always had them.
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