Online scheduling – Doodle

Have you ever received an email saying, ‘ we must meet to discuss….’ and then the difficult process starts of saying what days you are available, what days your contacts are available and the meeting fades off into the future, to far ahead to be useful? Have a look at http://www.doodle.ch/main.html  You set up a meeting with all the days you are available and email a link to the interested parties. They select the days they are available, you select the most convenient and repeat the process for the time of the meeting. Its one of those things that are invaluable  and have been needed for years without ever being able to articulate it. Sponsored by Google ads like so many other things. Really useful . Web 2.0 technology is slowly beginning to change the way we work, de-centralising  the ‘office’ experience.

Sharing resources nationaly

A careful and time-consuming trawl of the Internet will uncover resources that can be used in school. But finding even 1% of those would take a lifetime. All UK schools are in the process of adopting Learning Management Systems/Virtual Learning Environments and one of the conditions they must adhere to is that they are all SCORM compliant. This means that content can be created in one school and shared with any number of others without a problem. Read more