Initial thoughts on the "tools"
We have a consensus that Go Animate and Animoto seem to be the most "interesting" for staff to try out. We're taking the view that we would like to try them out with ordinary desk-based PC systems access, and also with Tablet system access, to try and identify and weaknesses in using new technologies.
Google Docs and Google Forms seem to crop up an awful lot, in the toolbox, and I might take some swaying from using SkyDrive (my favoured Cloud Hub resource). More testing to do! 06 March 2013
We have four members of staff accessing the toolbox, two from the admin/systems side and two of our direct teaching staff. Our initial focus is upon briefly accessing all of the steps of the leaner journey, with a view to arriving at a consensus of opinion, on four elements of the toolbox. Supplementary to this focus, two of our participants are using 10" Tablet technology to access the toolbox, hoping to provide a low-level critique of accessibility, ease of use, and overall usefulness. If we identify that the Tablet technology works well, we aim to involve learners in accessing the toolbox.
Initially, our collective thoughts are that the toolbox offers an interesting number of "tools", but a number of tools overlap into other steps of the learner journey. Provisionally we like the Animoto, Go!Animate, and Job Search tools. 08 March 2013
