Oh dear. That doesn't sound good. I thought they weren't interested in the projects after all? I can't see who could possibly be following up on the designmyschool work in ARU?
Hey ho... no doubt that will get resolved in time, but it's time we don't have when schools need help now. Sigh.
Your comment has reminded me, yet again, of how much the experience I have had in other roles, from Westlands CP School, Ultralab days (decade!?) and Stepping Stones have all contributed to the wealth of ideas and approaches that I have now. Of course it's got very little to do with the organisations themselves, but the people that I've met and worked with in those organisations. I've been very fortunate to work alongside so many people, you included.
As for the software, no doubt the software would have helped enormously here... and I remember the many user trials and tests we did with the toolkit in and around the UK. They were the days! Carmel was so enthusiastic. However, post-it notes are an incredibly cheap, reliable and tactile tool that it makes a pretty good alternative. What it doesn't do of course is all the cool and clever stuff that we engineered, liked storing results, overlaying graphs and comparing results between schools, pupils, staff etc.
Do you still have a version that I could run-up and test again with my pupils? If you have the code still, I could run on my server. What do you think?
Jonathan
Hi Hal,
Oh dear. That doesn't sound good. I thought they weren't interested in the projects after all? I can't see who could possibly be following up on the designmyschool work in ARU?
Hey ho... no doubt that will get resolved in time, but it's time we don't have when schools need help now. Sigh.
Your comment has reminded me, yet again, of how much the experience I have had in other roles, from Westlands CP School, Ultralab days (decade!?) and Stepping Stones have all contributed to the wealth of ideas and approaches that I have now. Of course it's got very little to do with the organisations themselves, but the people that I've met and worked with in those organisations. I've been very fortunate to work alongside so many people, you included.
As for the software, no doubt the software would have helped enormously here... and I remember the many user trials and tests we did with the toolkit in and around the UK. They were the days! Carmel was so enthusiastic. However, post-it notes are an incredibly cheap, reliable and tactile tool that it makes a pretty good alternative. What it doesn't do of course is all the cool and clever stuff that we engineered, liked storing results, overlaying graphs and comparing results between schools, pupils, staff etc.
Do you still have a version that I could run-up and test again with my pupils? If you have the code still, I could run on my server. What do you think?
J