Archive for September, 2008

Creating CV’s, Starting Reflection and an I-Phone

September 30th, 2008

Today I was in City College Plymouth assisting a tutor with a couple of sessions. As part of their module the students are required to create a CV and do reflection.
Today we got them to use UsPaCe as a tool for creating the basics of a CV by adding information to their profile. They [...]

City College Plymouth – Student Induction Afternoon

September 23rd, 2008

So today was the big one, an afternoon of inducting students from various courses at City College Plymouth.
We made a few tweaks learning from our experience yesterday with the 12 Public Services students – removed and added a few bits to the presentation and changed a few steps in the sign up process. I also [...]

Public Services UsPaCe Induction

September 22nd, 2008

Today Neil and I went to City College Plymouth and ran a student induction for 12 Public Services Students. They worked in a number of different areas including Police, Fire Service, ETC.
We split the induction into 2 sections, firstly a short presentation discussing the background to the project and how we got to where we [...]

Tutor Training & First Student Induction – (FD Public Services)

September 17th, 2008

On Monday we did our first student induction of the launch. We are working closely with Sue Atkinson at City College Plymouth and a number of her student groups. This first group were studying an FD in Public Services (Neighbourhood Management Branch) and were all firefighters.
The session went well with the students expressing a [...]

UsPaCe Launch Update (Modifications, Preparations and Iritations)

September 16th, 2008

Well I think we are well overdue an update on here. It’s been a busy couple of weeks getting things ready for the launch.
As the title of this post suggests there have been a few changes. I decided to change the way we did the I-Google customised homepage. We now have around 16 [...]