Thursday 26th June - Party time!

It was so nice to be able to celebrate the end of a successful year with eveyone. I have really enjoyed getting to know all of the other menorts and spending a bit of time outside of work getting to speak more informally with you all. Thanks to John for organising the event and to SFEU. I'm looking forward to next session, but it's sad to see Bob and Annamarie go. Best of luck to both of you for the future.

Monday 23rd June - Visit to Shetland College

I had a great meeting with a lovely group of people from Shetland College. We talked about the Core Skills refresh, teaching Communication and Lit 1 and everyone created their own blog! Hopefully I'll be back up to see the results next session.

Friday 13th June - Second Focus Group

This was a second very valuable meeting. We were delighted that Margaret Tierney from SQA could attend to discuss the recent Core Skills refresh. There was also feedback regarding the review of HN Comms with Media. Please view the minutes below to see full commentary of the meeting: https://claireswiki.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Minutes%20for%20Focus%20Group%2013-6-08.doc

Friday 6th June - College People Week

Well, what an exciting day and it was great to see so many practitioners. I was slightly unprepared for my new career in MC but everyone was very welcoming. I was very impressed by the speakers and the ideas which came from practitioners, so here's looking forward to next year!

Friday 30th May

I met up with Denise Fyfe from Angus College to discuss developments in e-portfolio and to consider Citizenship for a topic to discuss at College People Week.

Sourced information to reveal Government support of e-portfolio in education.

Contacted Focus Group to agree numbers and content for meeting on Friday 13th June.

Subject Mentors' Meeting - Thursday 22nd May

Another fine meeting in which we met Marie Thompson from Learning and Skills Development Agency in Northern Ireland. We shared ideas about the Subject Mentors and it seems Northern Ireland is making great links with employers.

We had some positive feedback from Colin and John McCann about our progress.

Now we're thinking about evaluation of the Networks and preparing for College People Week - should be a good day!

Friday 16th May

Well, the English Higher, Int 2 and Int 1 exams are over. I posted a discussion today about the exams and so far general opinion has been mixed.

I contacted Marie Morrison and Margaret Tierney regarding the next meeting for the Focus Group and have published the minutes from the Focus Group.

Now I'm off to write a presentation for College People Week. Phew!

Click here for the minutes: https://claireswiki.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Minutes+for+Focus+Group+2-5-08.doc