Is it Friday already?
Very busy week! Have been to Cottenham, Chatteris and Ely doing the "day" job. So have seen a lot of the Cambridgehire Fens, water and Newmarket on the way to the above. Newmarket was the only significant traffic jam while waiting for the racehorses to cross the road going out to exercise. When not working or driving I have been pushing forward the interests of Haverhill Online Learning Community and the ukonlinelearningcommunities.org. I have also just cleared the hoops to become an online tutor for a company in Gloucestershire who I visited in November. Just have to find the time to do all I have promised! Beginning of 2013 looking good as a time for growth and expansion.
Really impressed with a new feature on Google + ; Communities. At a stroke it would appear to enable a true community sense to be applied to the online communities set up. I have set up the Haverhill Online Learning Community and ukonlinelearningcommunities.org Google + Communities to join just follow the links and click on the Visit Google Community group. You may get a 404 error with the sites but if you follow the Contact Us tab and provide your email address (has to be a GMail account) we can get you involved that way.
Haverhill Online Learning Community (HOLC) have very kindly been provided use of a private room on StudyRoom. This is the resource used by Harvard for edX courses. By joining you can have access to this resource where you can interact with the rest of the community. This is a complementary tool to Google + Hangouts from the community page. StudyRoom allows you to gather around a table, use a whiteboard, chat and generally socially interact. The tools you choose to use are up to you. At HOLC we intend to provide as many ways of carrying out Life Long Learning effectively as a community.
Lots of things going on but the cunning plan (reference to Baldrick from BlackAdder) seems to be coming together. Next week will be a good test to find out how the momentum of the set up process can be mainatained as working in Ely all week. If I have put enough of the bare bones in place it should not be too much time invested in putting meat onto the bones!
Really impressed with a new feature on Google + ; Communities. At a stroke it would appear to enable a true community sense to be applied to the online communities set up. I have set up the Haverhill Online Learning Community and ukonlinelearningcommunities.org Google + Communities to join just follow the links and click on the Visit Google Community group. You may get a 404 error with the sites but if you follow the Contact Us tab and provide your email address (has to be a GMail account) we can get you involved that way.
Haverhill Online Learning Community (HOLC) have very kindly been provided use of a private room on StudyRoom. This is the resource used by Harvard for edX courses. By joining you can have access to this resource where you can interact with the rest of the community. This is a complementary tool to Google + Hangouts from the community page. StudyRoom allows you to gather around a table, use a whiteboard, chat and generally socially interact. The tools you choose to use are up to you. At HOLC we intend to provide as many ways of carrying out Life Long Learning effectively as a community.
Lots of things going on but the cunning plan (reference to Baldrick from BlackAdder) seems to be coming together. Next week will be a good test to find out how the momentum of the set up process can be mainatained as working in Ely all week. If I have put enough of the bare bones in place it should not be too much time invested in putting meat onto the bones!
Oh by the way the picture was designed by me for a business venture while holidaying in Crete. A bit of a description of what was going at the time when I was a full time teacher looking for a trapdoor to vanish from that particular stage. Still running, still have the hat but hopefully the battery is nearly full charged, looking forward to just trickle charging!
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