Well as the blogging (and Twittering) hiatus shows I have been busy busy busy!  Having made a good start to my new role as Director of e-Learning circumstances have changed a little.  Our school is currently waiting on a decision as to whether we will merge with another local school and become an Academy.  As you can imagine this makes some of the larger eLearning decisions hard to make right now.  I originally wanted a new VLE to be up and running by now but decisions on that will have to wait until an Academy decision.

The second game-changer was that shortly before half term I was offered a promotion!  I had been helping run the Maths department in the absence of an official Head of Department.  After the school unsuccessfully tried to appoint a Head of Department they asked me to take the role AS WELL AS my eLearning role.  And to reflect the responsibility they offered me the chance to do so as an Assistant Head.  All of this is until August 2010.  Obviously the chance to join the Senior Leadership Team at this stage in my career was hard to turn down.

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