Information and stats

Got Colin's urgent request for stats and information for the funding council on Sunday so spent the afternoon working on my submission. Hope I made it in time.

Having difficulty getting my advisory group together so had dinner with one of my group (the sacrifices we mentors have to make) and utilised some (well I can't be too boring) of the pre and post dinner chat to further our cause. Interesting discussions about the universal time and workload difficulties and in particular how staff development operates differently from College to College.

Drafted some editorial for our Broadcast 79 article, caught up with blogs and emails and updated the web page with some new resource. Murray and I are working on how best to sub-divide the page for ease of accessibility for Practitioners as Business and Administration covers a wide variety of subject areas. This is Work in Progress so log on to see the latest changes and let me know if it makes it easier to find what you need.

Off to sunny (or snowy as the forecast predicts) Loch Lomond. Have good Easter breaks - next update in three weeks.

Another busy week

In order to help appraisal of the networks I compiled an Evaluation Form (thanks to Claire for the idea) to send to Colleges visited and to issue at future visits. This should give valuable feedback on our project and for for the Subject Networks in general.

I attended an Admin and IT College Consortium Meeting at Forth Valley College in Falkirk on Friday 07 March. Twelve practitioners from various Colleges attended and the demonstration of the Practitioners Plus site and the BlendEd materials seemed to go down well as the Evaluation Forms confirm. Practitioners seemed keen to get log ons so hopefully we have a few more converts. Z cards were distributed as well as a copy of a CD with the Office Administration and Office Management BlendEd resources so practitioners could see the materials that were relevant for their subject area.

This week I made email contact with my Advisory Group asking for their feedback and arranged a tentative date - Thursday 22 may - to visit Stow College in Glasgow.

I also kept Murray busy by checking and updating the Practitioners Plus site with latest news and developments in Business and Administration.