Who says Twitter isn't useful?

I've been a bit busy and haven't been checking the tweets but this evening I gave myself some time to catch up (after posting a little known fact about Delaware, where I am from and which has hit the news again with a raving tea party nutter running for the senate.  Apologies, I digress).  I found a gold mine through the ever wonderful tweets of Dave Foord, giving the link to http://moodle.blogs.wesleyan.edu/home/.  The lovely people at Wesleyan College in the States, have produced something called 'Moodle in 15 minutes' - 15 x 1 minute screen casts of the Moodle interface, plus FAQs and other information for their staff as they move from Blackboard to Moodle.  I'm so excited to have found something which will help me, help explain Moodle to the other early adaptors in the college and just take my level of anxiety down a notch.

I do think we really need to have a Learning Technologist/Web designer on board at college to facilitate the implementation of Moodle, and keep it up to date and looking good.  This is on tomorrow's to do list since we intended to get a post advertised and then it went quiet.

Where we are now - 1. We're just rolling out the Moodle as the first window after login.  This is a big responsibility (I do care about how things look and that they are accessible and usable by the majority), hence the need to push again for the learning technologist.  2. The MIS system is nearly ready to talk to the Personal Development Plan aka eILP as the e-registers are now mostly accurate and being used.   3. We have a 2 day staff development window in October before half term to draw together these activities and meet up with people to demonstrate what's possible via Moodle/Mahara and the PDP.

Forest of Dean sculpture trail walk during a Technology Exemplar Meeting