Just before the training starts

I'm looking forward to our training with Di.  I've been practicing on my 'sandbox' course, looking on YouTube and Slideshare and the other e-Learning Advisors have also been having a go.  I particularly liked this presentation from Sandra Pires, E-Learning Lecturer at Westminster Adult Education Services , who runs a blog called e-blah-blah at www.e-blahblah.com .  She identifies all the ways that VLE use should be made more interesting and interactive.   We're definately moving from the filing cabinet approach to VLEs to something more useful.

Our involvement with ULCC continues to go smoothly. Staff can see their students, managers can see their areas and I've learned how to see everything from anyone's point of view.  We're working on making the attendance data (via our electronic registers on EBS) display more information to give a better overall picture of each student's attendance, something which most staff and students find invaluable.  Otherwise, all the bugs about information transfer from EBS to the e-ilp seem to have been ironed out.

We had a visit from colleagues at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College.  They run Moodle and Sharepoint but would like to use a e-ilp module as well.  We showed them ours and had a useful discussion about all the issues surrounding implementing new systems and changing existing practice.  This includes the ongoing process of supporting staff to use technology and be comfortable with it.  I noticed that an ILT colleague, Lesley Besant at BCOT, is an e-Confidence Coordinator.

Happy holiday from the e-Learning Advisors at Abingdon and Witney College