Moodling mindset

Just a little more meat to Simon’s earlier post about our Moodle thing yesterday.
The day started off with a 60 second period to consider what you wanted to get out of the day. Here are my thoughts:

How to get news about Moodle out and about
Thoughts on migrating and re-building courses that still exist in WebCT
Getting [...]

moodle day

yesterday, andrew and i attended the moodle user forum – a bit of a trek upto Newcastle (under lyme – not on tyne…thankfully).
they are ‘get togethers’ of other moodle enthusiasts from FE across the midlands.
the morning was a good session, 2 or 3 colleges showing what progress they have made with their moodle …it seems [...]

team talk

the past couple of weeks has seen some massive changes coming to fruition for IT Services.
first – we appointed a new helpdesk administrator (Anton Debiage) – due to start on 26th March …Anton was a very strong interviewee who had some excellent ideas about how to take the helpdesk service forward – i think he [...]

new dawn for IT Helpdesk

last week we were finally able to interview for the helpdesk vacancy (thats been outstanding for many months) … we had some good candidates, and 1 excellent one.
I am very pleased to announce that Anton Debiage accepted our offer, and will be starting wih us in a couple of weeks.
Anton gave an excellent presentation into [...]

return of the Mac

well done to andrew and brad for their work on friday.
the Mac Room @ NWS is now operational – and it looks amazing !

virtualization comes at the right time….

we are just about to start the (major) implementation of our new SAN (Storage Area Network) and Virtual server infrastructure…. and it couldn’t be coming at a better time.
since the recent work on the server room (shoring up the ceiling to prevent collapse) the temperature has been on the increase in there – in fact, [...]

the boss i aim to be…

quality….

dilbert is funny

dilbert is funny

glad to be at the end of a great week

this week seems to have gone so quickly.
but – it’s been a real busy one.
being newly involved with the e-learning within the college has given me an exciting new focus.; much of my time this week has been involved in gathering information, and with thinking about how to move forward in this area.
this week has [...]