Friday 29th February

Contacted Karen Eunson from Shetland College about a possible visit. After speaking to Marianne from Langside (who seemed keen on sharing ideas for Media) I said I'd post some more Media materials to encorage more Media staff on to the site. She suggested something like PP was something they had been looking for to share materials and ideas.

Good news, so spent time getting more materials together for Media.

Spoke to contact at GLOW to get information about their site usage. Generally they receive hunreds of hits a day, but all staff registered to GLOW have it as their homepage which means they have to access it to e-mail. GLOW also make sure that their page changes every day with new information about events/ideas to encourage teachers to look at it regularly.

Subject Mentor Meeting - Telford College

What another wonderful college. Seemed very state of the art! Was great to see everyone again, although brief (for me). The meeting focused on getting greater use from PP and the need to take a more felxible approach to time when responding to emails. Unfortunately, I didn't get the opportunity to hear from Coleg, so I look forward to the minutes.

Got some lovely postive feedback from Langside: "You are an inspiration to us all ! Thanks again. Hope to meet you again with more wonderful ideas." Good for evaluation purposes.

Friday 22nd February

I created an evaluation sheet as I though this might be helpful to receive comments and suggestions after visitng Langside College. I e-mailed it to Langside College and asked the members of staff at the meeting if they wouldn't mind filling it in. I have posted this and hopefully my Wiki will now allow everyone access!

https://claireswiki.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Subject+Mentor+Evaluation.doc

I also developed materials for Media as PP is a little lacking at present. I posted these to Murray to upload.

Meeting at Langside College

Today I gave the presenation to Langside. A lovely bunch of people and all very encouraging. They all logged on to PP and seemed positive about the site. Unfortunately, their network would not allow access to Blogs but they seemed genuinely excited about the prosepect and we agreed I'd go back in May once they had sorted out IT problems.

Responded to Colin about the Welsh Tourism and Communications delivery.

Friday 8th February

Cotinued to work on the presentation for Langside, to be delivered next week. The aim is to encourage the staff to use Practioners Plus by highlighting its merits, as well as trying to encourage the use of Blogs and Wikis.

I responded to Colin's query about PP and offered some ideas about the English Subject Network Event on the 25th April. Here's the suggested plan:

1. Background, aim and target audience focusing on English Comms and Media, (of course!)
2. Introduce PP and focus on advantages to subject specialists
3. Introduction to the Subject Mentor, explain role and...
4. Explanation and encouragement of e-portfolio in the English classroom - view blogs and wikis
5. SQA delegate to explain developments in: NQ English, Core Skills and HN Comms Media

After offering advice to Inverness College, got some positive feedback from Elizabeth Barron: "Thanks Claire, that is great and very useful to know! Best wishes, Liz"

Hope everyone is well, and looking forward to seeing you all at the next event.

Friday 1st Feb

Today I looked for examples of good pactice to add to the "Illuminating Practice" aspect of Practitioner Plus. Murray kindly said he would update the page.

I also asked Murray to put a notice on the page for the SQA HN Comms and Media day and asked for this to be included in the ezine for English/Comms/Media

I contacted computing staff to help Elizabeth Barron at Inverness College with difficulties experienced with film editing.

Finally, I developed a presentation to deliver to Langside College - still basic and needs more, but it's a start...I'm now going to try to upload this onto the blog...fingers crossed!

https://clairesclass.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/SFEU%20-%20Presentation.ppt

It worked! Thanks Annmarie for your advice.