From the monthly archives:

September 2009

As I promised earlier, here is a video introducing Dave Briggs and his role as the Community Evangelist at Learning Pool. Check it out!

Learning Pool’s Community Evangelist: Dave Briggs from Liz Azyan on Vimeo.
Hope this was useful!
Liz xxx

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Social Media 101 with Dave Briggs

by Liz Azyan on September 30, 2009

Have you heard about social media?
Do you know what it is?
Social media can have different meanings from one individual to another. So let’s listen to what the expert has to say…. In case you still don’t know who Dave Briggs, not to worry! I’ll be introducing him in my upcoming post very very soon. Until [...]

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BuyWays: procurement e-learning for schools

by Learning Pool on September 30, 2009

Learning Pool has been working with the Department for Schools, Children and Families (DCSF) to create a schools procurement resource, known as BuyWays.
Like other areas of the public sector schools face increasing pressure to improve by making better use of available budgets. 
Sound financial planning is essential for delivering improvements and effective procurement is at the [...]

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The continuing travels of a Learning Pool pig

by Learning Pool on September 29, 2009

Last week one of our Learning Pool piggies took a swim in the River Thames.
This wasn’t a mishap on our part or even deliberate and wanton cruelty to a poor blue plastic object.  No – this was our message in a bottle to those a little further upstream to us.
This merriment took place at our [...]

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Click to listen to my interview with Simon Green about his DLE journey
Simon Green is the Organisation Development Advisor at Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council as well as Learning Pool’s recipient of Ambassador of the Year 2009. In this interview Simon talks about his journey with the DLE plus a lot of other interesting highlights [...]

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Click to listen to podcast of my interview with Julie Hull from DCSF
This interview features Julie Hull, the Head of Professional Development in Commercial Group at Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). In this interview she talks to me about DCSF latest adventure in implementing BuyWays with Learning Pool as a guide to helping [...]

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The Party of the Year … plus some jelly babies!

So last week, the Learning Pool Summer Party took place on board the HMS President. There was a lot going on that day but I think the best experience that day for me was playing the ‘Snakes and Ladders’ game with jelly babies. My table consists [...]

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Winchester City Council is just one of many local authorities for whom Induction training for new joiners was a real pain point.  This case study describes, from Learning and Development Advisor Marian Ives’ view point, how their Induction programme has changed.
What was the driver for creating your Induction e-learning?
For many years we ran a traditional [...]

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