Firstly, welcome to the first entry in this Learning Platform blog. It will initially be aimed at those schools who have yet to start embedding the Learning Platform but will quickly start to be used to demonstrate how a School such as Woodhey is using the functionally within the Learning Platform to improve our use of ICT both as a communication tool but also as a Teaching & Learning aid.
Strategic Planning is the name of the Game:
Before engaging with the administrative tasks associated with implementing your School’s Learning Platform there are a number of tasks that may be worth considering:
• Identify Core Information Providers within your school (for secondary schools this may be one person from each department)
• Consider the different Interest Spaces your school might require (SLT, Pastoral, English, Science, etc) Draw a flow diagram from where these new spaces will nest from. For example, if you create a Interest Space from within Staffroom and click "Inherit Memberships" then all the members of the Staffroom Space will be automatically members of this new space.
• Identify the membership of these individual Interest Spaces including which member(s) might become Administrator of that Interest Space. Also consider the permissions of the other members – will they be readers or contributors?
• Which non-teaching staff (if any) might need to be designated as teaching staff within the Learning Platform? Since only teaching staff have access Learning Spaces, for example.
• What information is readily available (such as calendars, policy documents, etc) that could be uploaded or entered in the Learning Platform once you are ready to populate key areas?
• What other valuable services might you provide through the Learning Platform – for example you might provide an additional calendar page to act as a booking log for the school minibus, Library or ICT Suite
• Identify the lead departments who will immediately start using the Learning Platform for T&L, sharing resources, communication and collaboration, whom other departments might benchmark against - What incentives might they have (time of timetable to develop a working model)
• Identify the administrative staff that will need to be involved with content population (this might be weekly staff bulletins, cover duties, calendar amendments, etc) - Can these duties be adding to job descriptions?
• Discuss with SLT what information is appropriate for all audiences, teaching staff, all staff, pupils, parents as this will impact on which Interest Space this content is held
• What graphics have you got available for each main Interest Space?
While this is not a definitive list it should give you an idea of some of the planning and strategic decisions you will need to undertake over the course of your learning platform implementation
Monday, 28 June 2010
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