Comments on: Exc-el Board Meeting http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/ "We learn from our experience.....if we reflect upon our experience" John Dewey Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:25:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: guineapigmum » Trial by technology http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-6399 guineapigmum » Trial by technology Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:12:00 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-6399 [...] This next system failure is really quite embarrassing.  Sunday morning and the sun was shining with snowdrops and primroses out in the garden.  We were just getting ready for the weekly football outing when the phone rang.  Nice lady:- “Hello, it’s Port Edgar…”  Me:- “Oh *@*@ dear.”  I’d totally forgotten OH and I were both supposed to be on a VHF course, booked months ago.  Events have rather overtaken us in the last week or so but yes, it was written on the paper with boxes on on the wall.  Perhaps it should have been in Outlook as well.  I’m hoping that, if I tuck this away at the end, Ewan won’t read this far. [...] [...] This next system failure is really quite embarrassing.  Sunday morning and the sun was shining with snowdrops and primroses out in the garden.  We were just getting ready for the weekly football outing when the phone rang.  Nice lady:- “Hello, it’s Port Edgar…”  Me:- “Oh *@*@ dear.”  I’d totally forgotten OH and I were both supposed to be on a VHF course, booked months ago.  Events have rather overtaken us in the last week or so but yes, it was written on the paper with boxes on on the wall.  Perhaps it should have been in Outlook as well.  I’m hoping that, if I tuck this away at the end, Ewan won’t read this far. [...]

]]> By: Tessa Watson » Exc-el 2007 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-6139 Tessa Watson » Exc-el 2007 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:39:51 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-6139 [...] Don’s post Ollie’s Post Davids’s Post Ewan’s Post I am very pleased to have been invited to join the group and I am looking forward to contributing to the development of Exc-el. [...] [...] Don’s post Ollie’s Post Davids’s Post Ewan’s Post I am very pleased to have been invited to join the group and I am looking forward to contributing to the development of Exc-el. [...]

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-5647 Ewan McIntosh Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:19:57 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-5647 I would love a paper thing on the wall, but when you work over three sites, two organisations and around 800 appointments a year, computerisation is the only way to go to keep sane and not have to send thirty email every time you want a meeting ;-) I would love a paper thing on the wall, but when you work over three sites, two organisations and around 800 appointments a year, computerisation is the only way to go to keep sane and not have to send thirty email every time you want a meeting ;-)

]]> By: guineapigmum http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-5644 guineapigmum Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:12:57 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-5644 Oh all right then - I'd be an interested (but very ignorant) parent if no one else comes forward. "We also need to be careful with stats" How true! My favourite recent statistical artefact is the report that that Prestonpans is, after Edinburgh, the most expensive place in Scotland to buy a house. And Ewan, dare I suggest one of those paper things with boxes on that you pin on the wall as a partial backup for at least some of your computer wizardry? Happy New Year by the way! Oh all right then - I’d be an interested (but very ignorant) parent if no one else comes forward.

“We also need to be careful with stats” How true! My favourite recent statistical artefact is the report that that Prestonpans is, after Edinburgh, the most expensive place in Scotland to buy a house. And Ewan, dare I suggest one of those paper things with boxes on that you pin on the wall as a partial backup for at least some of your computer wizardry? Happy New Year by the way!

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-5635 Ewan McIntosh Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:01:58 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-5635 I'm really sorry that I missed this - it's one of the dates that I had received before being able to backup and then having some computer bother. Could the dates not appear on your blog for future reference? Or, dare I say, in a very Web 1.0 meeting request ;-) I would have appreciated putting forward the way I was seeing things develop, which would nuance some of what you are suggesting above. For example, eduBuzz, as far as I (and the small team developing the portal?) had been concerned, would be a replacement for Exc-el with a different outlook which would have helped qualm some of the negativity to blogging etc. I'm also interested in what the business plan holds and what the role of the Board is in the project: advisory? managerial? strategic? tactical? We also need to be careful with stats - the December ones don't include four blogs which bring in a fair amount of traffic - Ollie's, Tess's, Robert Jones' and my own. That might make the stats closer to 80,000. Apologies once more for not being present, but it's more misfortune than intent that I wasn't able to take part. I’m really sorry that I missed this - it’s one of the dates that I had received before being able to backup and then having some computer bother. Could the dates not appear on your blog for future reference? Or, dare I say, in a very Web 1.0 meeting request ;-)

I would have appreciated putting forward the way I was seeing things develop, which would nuance some of what you are suggesting above. For example, eduBuzz, as far as I (and the small team developing the portal?) had been concerned, would be a replacement for Exc-el with a different outlook which would have helped qualm some of the negativity to blogging etc. I’m also interested in what the business plan holds and what the role of the Board is in the project: advisory? managerial? strategic? tactical?

We also need to be careful with stats - the December ones don’t include four blogs which bring in a fair amount of traffic - Ollie’s, Tess’s, Robert Jones’ and my own. That might make the stats closer to 80,000.

Apologies once more for not being present, but it’s more misfortune than intent that I wasn’t able to take part.

]]> By: OllieBray http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-5633 OllieBray Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:02:37 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/01/08/exc-el-board-meeting/#comment-5633 Very positive meeting today Don, great news about the new web stats. Don't forget David Gilmore is also in the group! Very positive meeting today Don, great news about the new web stats. Don’t forget David Gilmore is also in the group!

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