Jul '07 16

Millie and Molly have become best mates. Here is a recent pic, they like sleeping in the washing basket:

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They love Morrison’s own brand kitten food, which has resulted in more frequent trips to Morrison’s, sorry Tesco, sort out your cat food.

Here are some recent movies of them:

icon for podpress  Millie cleans Molly: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
icon for podpress  Millie hits out at the camera!: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
icon for podpress  They can smell food!: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Jul '07 6

Today our team are delighted to be part of and exhibiting at the e4me Conference today in Norwich.

From the Regional Support Centre Website….

e-Fair 2007 for the Eastern region will have the core theme of Personalisation with a Keynote speech from John Stone, LSN and be packed full of workshops, show and tell sessions and exhibitors.

Show & Tell: ACL Essex - The e-Shift Project – Virtual Learning in ECDL and Anatomy and Physiology Adult Courses, City College Norwich - Electronic Individual Learning Plans, Oaklands College - Mobile ESOL course, Otley College - Moodle Implementation, The College of West Anglia - Using a VLE to aid differentiated learning and West Suffolk College - Teach, tape it and go plus LSN Projects.

Six workshops: Becta - Personalising Learning: The Technology Opportunity, Bedford College - Working with Classroom Technologies, Bedfordshire and Suffolk ACL - Using Technology to Support RARPA, Colchester Institute - Getting to grips with SharePoint, JISC TechDis Service - Inclusive Practices – Making the Most of the Resources You Have, West Suffolk College - Getting to grips with Podcasting.

Exhibitors: Cleveratom, JISC Collections, JISCmail, LSN, Netskills, NIACE, OSS Watch, SCRAN, TechDis, The Higher Education Academy, JANET.

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Here are the pictures as placed online by RSC Eastern. 

Jul '07 5

Work in the field of Learning Platforms (Virtual Learning Environments) is becoming more and more frequent make up of Cleveratom’s evolving portfolio of projects.

We’re doing more and more work advisory work in both the design of physical and virtual spaces for learning, and we understand what needs to happen to make both physical and virtual work together.

Every school must have a VLE by the end of 2008 and we’ve recently been enjoying working with schools to evaluate where they are in the process…… and work with them and advise on next steps.

Lets be honest here, some schools are getting it wrong, and others are getting it right. We’ve witnessed both and learned some lessons, lessons that we are happy to share.

In January of this year the Yorkshire and Humber Grid for Learning Foundation commissioned Cleveratom to produce a book and DVD which would help schools to learn from each other what a learning platform actually is, and how schools are using it. Read about our work on the YHGfL website (Click here. YHGfL will sell you copy of the book/DVD for £15, very good value for money.

Since the book and DVD launch in Castleford in May (read about it here) we’ve been frequently called upon by schools asking for help and support through the VLE process.

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Our advert reads: Learning Platforms. Avoid the mistakes that are being made. We offer advice and a free fact sheet.
We’re now becoming more and more familiar with the ‘common mistakes’ that are being made when it comes to picking and maintaining a VLE….. So we’ve produced a free fact sheet and are using education media to reach a wider audience of schools….Look out in the educational press, where you see an article about learning platforms you’ll probably see our advert linking through to free advice on how to get it right.

If you have to have a loan, avoid having unsecured loans. The reason may be car loans or loans for start up of a business. However, unsecured ones tend to become bad credit loans nevertheless.

Jul '07 3

Please update your records!

Within the next few weeks we will be in our new office. Until that moment we’ll remain in our Ongar base, but will be moving very shortly. Alex has been packing boxes!

Our new physical address will be:

Cleveratom Ltd
Fenchurch House
93 Springfield Road
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 6JL

Our local rate telephone number remains the same…. it is….

0845 868 90 20

although our local office phone/fax number has already changed from 01277 369 500 to….

01245 252 009

….which you can reach us on as from today.

Our old Ongar telephone number will direct for three months, please don’t use it anymore.

Jul '07 1

A new conversation/discussion/talky website has popped up for people to talk about Northern Ireland.  talkni.org has been set up by Martin, a former colleague of mine from Ultralab days….

In the about section it says…
Talkni.org is a website with a simple idea - create a space for ordinary people to talk about Northern Ireland. Nothing fancy here…. just the opportunity to talk about the beautiful place we live in and how we manage to live here despite the well-known warts!

Check it out….   talkni.org