Inauguration Speech of Barack Obama
I didn’t have time to listen the Barack Obama speech, nor time to read it. However, as a budding future leader could I afford to ignore it? So I threw it into Wordel. I have mentioned Wordel before, it is …
Middle Management
Personal actions and reflections as a middle leader
The Elephant in the Corner
This was a phrase I had never come across… our friends visiting from the States exchanged the Elephant for a gorilla, the idiom was the same. It got me thinking…. in our College, what was the elephant? Did we have …
The Value of Expertise
We have made a new appointment, to support in the implementation of our Learning Platform and to improve the College’s effective use of Sims. The reason for this post is that we recognised that we were missing the expertise to …
Performance Management
Well there is not too much to share. The meeting was simple. The head was pleased with the progress academically and understandably squeezing for every extra percentage point for ICT pass grades. Conversation quickly moved onto the IT focus which …
Performance Review
I have now been at Hamble College for nearly 12 months and its my performance review this week. How do these meetings mould our progress as middle leaders. What can I glean from this experience to make me a better …
What is the Focus?
With nearly a year passed, I recently looked at what ‘we’ had been working towards, the items the Department and I had fulfilled or had left incomplete. The areas of IT Networking we had addressed and those that still posed …
#3 5 Minute Meals for ICT
Topic or Tool: Smallworlds What does it cost? FREE. SmallWorlds is a 3D virtual world (similar to Second Life and Lively) but it runs inside your web browser – no software to install. Targeted at anyone aged 13 years and …
#2 5 Minutes Meals for ICT
I cant remember the format, just give me two seconds to copy and paste it from the last meal, to keep things orderly. Topic or Tool: Busbi Camera, small, portable and easy to use video cameras. What does it cost? …