Gideon+Williams

=toc= = = = = =About Me (next to the dog) =

I am currently the Director of e-learning (grand title, think Head of ICT but with whole school nuisance factor or fancy post given to someone long in the tooth but not trusted on leadership team) at Perins School in leafy Alresford in Hampshire.

Have been at the school for nearly 10yrs and in that time have been responsible for development of our VLE and our elearning scheme which includes 1-1 notebook provision and BYOD.

Came to Scoop.it through twitter (www.twitter.com/gideonwilliams) and my interest in Web2 tools. Have been looking for a more effective way of cataloguing and updating my growing list of free resources.

= = = = =Using Delicious = Began cataloging on delicious in 2009 and spent a fruitless 4 months trying to encourage staff to follow suit, share resources and even consider importing their laptop favourites once in a while. I even offered to sort and tag resources for free: 

Even wrote copious helpsheets and put on some after school INSET! Here are the helpsheets:  Not sure why it was not a success but probably down to a number of factors: =Tables in Word = With most staff not ready I then moved to a simpler format - Word. I created tables upon tables of Web 2 resources with some explanations as to how they could be used either in our Moodle VLE or as part of a 4 form lesson. I usually pdf-ed the file and kept it in my Dropbox account:
 * New technology and different approach**. Am sure we do share resources but do it in different ways. Each member of staff has an email account - perhaps it goes on this way.



=Moving to Scoop.it = I recently moved to scoop.it because I wanted a more effective way of storing the resources, one that was more visual, easier to access and could be used by students.

@http://www.scoop.it/t/learning-2-0-tools/curate in November and spent about a month on and off updating the list. Needless to say I have not got it quite right and I wish had looked at tagging right from the start!

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The last entry I made was on November 30th. To date there are 91 entries. I have 12 followers and over 2000 views and a scoopit rating of 11. Not sure how good or bad this is. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Got the feeling that there is far more to Scoop.it other than just simple collation or "scooping" of resources. Perhaps this forum and opportunity is an ideal one in which to find out.

=**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Initial Project Ideas **= <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Now read through Theo's ideas for the project. Sound awesome. Currently considering 3 projects.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**1. Learning 2.0 tools** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Transfer across the original idea. Ask to see if Scoop.it will allow me to use Analytics. Track the increase in traffic and usage to site when I try to promote it as much as possible. In the meantime, tag the resources and make it easier to search through (need to find out how to do this myself)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**2. School Scoops** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Could we use Scoop.it as a resource area for GCSEs. Could we use Scoopit like a website eg English Scoop page has 6 scoops each reflecting an area in the curriculum. Click on each to go to resources about that area?

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**3. Flipped Scoops** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Doing some work with the SSAT and our Science department on the Flipped model of learning. What if we set up a flipped for each topic co-run by students?

=**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Scoop.it Update (June) **=

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Returned to Scoop.it to update the list of tools in April although still not done enough on tagging. Added a number of "scoops" from Twitter. I have found this to be the most effective way of using it. I **favourite** a tweet I like then add it to the scoop. It seems to work most of the time as long as I remember to favourite it. Occasionally Twitter seems to lose my favourites or maybe they get lost in the other nonsense I bookmark!

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I now have 106 scoops, 25 followers, 1427 views, nearly 3000 views and a much improved scoop.it score of 67?

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I have promoted scoop.it where possible and this has helped increase the viewing figures. Some of these include:


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Linked on the main page of our school Moodle page via an RSS feed
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Presented to staff every term as part of our 10min CPD sessions
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Presented at Teachable Teachmeet - http://blog.teachable.net/2012/teachmeet-the-abbey/
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Link to Scoop.it for meeting and workshop for South East Area headteachers on our Moodle:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Scoop.it presentation to the Hampshire IT Conference on June 22nd

= = =**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Project Updates **=

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**1. Learning 2.0 tools** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">This still needs tagging and I have got to sort this out before it gets out of hand. I also need to go through each one to check they are still there! A few more Scoops to add and some tidying u p for presentation. I should also put the slideshare of the presentation on the wiki. It would be really good to try to increase the number of followers to the scoop.it. Not sure what the best way is of doing this. Followers get free updates of any new scoops.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**2. Moodle Scoops** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">With more focus on our Moodle and Mahara I have decided to set up a scoop.it for presentations and videos linked to these areas. I currently dont have a section on this and it would be good to start again and get it right!

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**3. Flipped Scoops** Updating the new Moodle courses for KS3 and will ensure that there is a link to a Scoop.it. Again, it is only going to be effective if the tagging and searching facility is developed and clear. Once this is in place then need to monitor it.