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Monday, 11 October 2010

Early adopters

The e-ILP (we're calling it a Personal Development Plan - PDP) is working very well and staff have taken to it quickly.  There are some questions which I've been compiling and will upload here later so that you can see what people want to know and how they want to use the PDP.  More interesting is that Mahara is being used and there has been no mention of it from us.  It sits there within the Moodle interface but we've been so busy keeping up with the front page and trying to sort out the PDP, that we haven't considered introducting Mahara.

I am really happy that people have found it, thought about how to use it and have set up their own networks with their students - or found that their students have set up THEIR own networks and invited them to join.  I shouldn't be surprised - times have really changed and the college is now full of people who don't have to be convinced that technology is a good thing.  On the whole, things work so why shouldn't we have early adopters? Now all I have to do is find the time to learn to use Mahara well so I'm off to YouTube to get started. 

I may not yet love Moodle but I really, really like Mahara.  That is certainly another story.

St. Ives (keeping that sunny feeling going a little longer)
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous18 October 2010 at 11:50

    Hi Ellen,

    How are you training staff to use Moodle. One to One, specific staff development slots, on demand or a mix of all three.really interesting that staff and users have found areas on their own. Ahhh the mysterious world in which we live :-) Best Wishes
    Brian

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  2. MovingtoMoodle18 October 2010 at 16:32

    We're not formally training staff on Moodle because...we aren't there yet. But we're offering training on using the e-ilp by programme area, booked and drop in sessions and email!

    So many more people are willing to play with a programme that it is easier than 5-8 years ago when there were many more people who weren't using any technology and certainly didn't have it at home.

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