Posts Tagged ‘VLE’

My 3 Year E-Learning Development Plan

I have been in post at my new school as Director of E-Learning for 4 weeks now, and it’s been a heck of a ride!  A completely new IT Support team for the school has meant that it has been a trying start to the year for all concerned.  The new team has pulled together [...]

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The VLE debate, my thoughts

There has been much debate of late about whether Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), particularly in their British state sponsored variations are dead.  For some of the thoughts check out Lindsay Jordan, James Clay, Matt Lingard and Steve Wheeler.
One week today I finally start my new job as Director of E-Learning at a high school in [...]

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Google’s New Operating System

So today Google announced that they will be introducing their very own Google Chrome OS.

This follows in the wake of excellent the Google Chrome web browser which was released last year.  Designed initially for netbooks, it appears that the OS will effectively be little more than a web browser.  The beauty of this is that [...]

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Google Wave – the beginning of the end for VLEs?

Google announced a new product to the World at it’s Google I/O conference yesterday, Google Wave.

There has been much written about it around the Web, by folks more intelligent than I, so if you want to catch up on the intricacies then read some of these sites:
Ars Technica Tech Crunch Tech Crunch again LifeHacker DownloadSquad
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Director of E-Learning Interview

This Thursday I have an interview for the post of Director of E-Learning at a local High School. Inspired by Doug Belshaw’s recent interview/blog/twitter success, (congratulations again Doug!) I would appreciate my personal learning network’s help!
I have to present for 10 mins and also teach for 30.
My presentation is on “Your Vision for E-Learning [...]

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