I have now deleted my twitter account and have cut back my use of Facebook to a quick visit once/week. Why? I have come to the end of a 2 year experiment in Social Networking and concluded it should be renamed Social Time wasting. 19/20 twitter comments were irrelevant and I could gain nothing special from following my fleet of 'friends' on FB. So it has gone - I feel almost liberated, like I have an extra hour in the day. I will keep FB as my 5 yr old likes playing with my farm on Farmtown - no… Continue

I have been challenged by Ian's on line broadcasts, and lead to ponder how that might be included in course development and delivery at College. I have been trawling the net for ideas, and came across this article on 'Hybrid' courses.. course that are partly conventional, and partly on line

http://www.uwsa.edu/ttt/articles/garnham.htm

I am speculating that such courses could be the way of the near future (who knows what the more distant future might look like).

One scenario I put to staff yes… Continue

At a recent staff meeting we were presented with several future scenarios, one being that online learning is going to be a big part of our new school system. Click here to read the report.

OK so here it is - I am producing lessons recorded from the smartboard and publishing them to the web via my school website http://ics.christscollege.com/ I am dead keen to get (and stay) in touch with people who are interested in and want to develop this sort of virtual learning. I think the potential is huge. I want this area to be a place where ideas and websites and resources can be shared along these lines. Please get involved.