My weekly updates have become a bit thin on the ground recently, not because I haven’t been seeing lots of interesting things but mainly because I’ve been seeing and doing lots of “stuff ” at work and I haven’t really had the time to blog anything coherent. My life just seems to be full of “stuff” that needs done. Most of it is related in someway, but at times there is so much stuff around it’s hard to know where to start. However today is my VIS strategy planning day. But what is VIS? I hear you cry, dear reader. Well, it’s my new favourite acronym – Very Important Stuff.
This morning my colleague Jim and I have been working with SD (stuff done) methodology to develop our VIS plan. Most of our most pressing “stuff” relates to our upgrade of VLE (GCULearn) which will happen in late July. Early this week we spent a really informative day with colleagues from Blackboard going through the changes in the April 2014 release. I had seen the main highlights at the #bbtlc2014 conference last month, but it was great to get some more time to go through them in more detail. Some of the new things will be great (particularly the student preview) but we are also now planning to do a few other things like using LTI and integrating some more third party services which we haven’t done before. We’re looking to trial MyKnowledgeMap with some of our student nurses when they are on placement and possibly WebPA too.
Anyway, as I have now have quite a long to do list, I best get back to that. I’ll be blogging more about some of the actions from our VIS plan as and when they happen.
