Christmas gets earlier each year!

Today i opened up discussions about what to do for a staff christmas party/event... Now as a working person i need to make sure i am ready fro christmas a long time before hand... so some suggestions have been made for what we could do and run by the few peoplein the office.

In terms of work done today, Andrew and I trialed our questionaire out ona couple of willing volunteers to see what we might need to add to it for when we actually start it up in terms of getting volunteers to phone the service users.

I also too a look at the access software that come as part of Skype to see how that could help a person with a visual impairment use the programme... in my opinion there appears to be little extra support provided and the supposed simplified graphics option makes it harder to view the bits it changes as apposed to easier.

Emails today were numerous and of course as usual it was good to hear from the people i met on the management course as to what they werw doing. I also booked two dates in the diary for a workshop and a meeting so hopefully they will be interesting (unfortunatly i did have to remove a date that was already in the diary due to a cancelation of the event)

Well that is quite comprhensive as to my days actiities so i shall leave it there
Tim

Its all about IT training

Today my day has been very geared towards IT and the traiing of it, apart from a brief irritating restbite in between observing wendy give an IT lesson and writting up my lesson plans.

I have now gaged an idea of how i should try to structure the lessons and what i would need to do to make them fully accesible. It was interesting to see how mch you can operate a computer without a mouse (admittedly i shold be much better at this but due to lazyness i havnet really put the effort in).

Registering for an NVQ is a total farse in my opinion... i feel like without Jess's (KTP modules 2 and 3 participant) help i would have never found out how to do it or where to go... ridiculous AND thanks to Andrew for helping me fill otu a totally inaccessible form anyways that should now start in about six weeks time according to Jess (ever so efficent down at Momenta)!

Well tonight i think i will continue trying to work on these lesson plans as i said last week working late has its benifits and whilst its fresh in my head i think i will get a fair aount sorted with it.

farewell for now
Tim

working late has its benifits

Last night i was sat at my kitchen table drawing up some plans and maps for the website and portal. Today i presneted them to some of the strategic managers and staff to show how things would work and i feel like it has clared up some questions that they had and it has deffinatly cleared up in my mind how it will work too... therefore i beleive taht although i havent ever really worked late/at howe before i can now see its benifit.

Brillinatly today as well i ordered my speakers which look amazing so i look forward to their arival... the sound that they give out will not only help in my presentations but selfishly make the music play sound good too!!!

anyway thats a short post today but the office is closing down now so i need to get out of here

back next week

Monthly meeting 1

Today was the day of my first monthly meeting with my supervisors fromthe charity and the uni (Sue and Les resctively). I think that the meeting went well with agenda items i had collated being discussed nicely. I look forward to most of the meetings following a similar vein. I shall have to type up the meetings minutes tomorrow morning so that any of the "emotion" from the meeting is left out of them, or so im told is best practise anyway.

Additionally in the morning i spent time again on my lesson plans for the IT training, im hoping to have them sorted by next week so tahti can start testing them out to see if they are accessible and informative.

I think im going to have to put my head down for the next few weeks though as i think it will be hard work up till the end of August so that i can get these lessons written.

I have a qustion for you to finsish with... What would you like to see/hear from this blog? I ask this as i have difficulty deciding what to write. your thoughts please

T.

Dedicated to wendy

Thank you to wendy who has shown support to this blog through out the dry period.

Anyway back to what i've been doing, today i wrote a report regarding how feasable it would be to survey all the service users on our database so fingers crossed that proposal goes ahead and we ccan get some positive results from taht.

Additionally i have rewritten my gant chart for the rest of this month and arranged the FIRST website meeting for early September. Spent some more time getting and giving feedback on the course i was on last week although i still have to show the video of my presentation (the spectacle that it is).

Communications with other course participants is still very high and i see that as a good thing as it keeps netwrokign oppotunities up too.

Looking forward to the introduction of wireless both in the offie and more iminatly home too as it will make it easier to write this blog for one but also allow me to work fromhome occasionally.


All for now
Tim

A long time coming

So i shant be appologising for the lack of posts as i have been well to be perfectly hoenst distracted by numerous other things however i am back on the blogger case.

Last week was again an interesting week with tme spent learning management techniques and indeed teaching them too... or at least giving a master class in the presentational style of improvisation! Got myself some positive feedback on it too so happy with that.

Whats next then for me and my blog i can imagine you are thinking... well the answer to that is making a real start and dent on the actual project proposal. The next few weeks i would apreciate peoples help with ideas for what we can maybe do with the IT lessons as we are hoping to maybe create some others to add to our repetoiur... I shall try and hold a meetig with Steve to get these moving so any ideas and feedback is welcome nay encoursged!!!!

Further to that i have a meeting with Sue and Les where hopefully we can bottom out some strucutre to the next couppe of months or so and in doing so increase my efficency exponentially.

On an non work related front internet and more importantly a bed should be iminant in the flat so i feel like a real Chester resident now rather than someone sleeping ona friends floor.

New post tomorrow but for now i am glad to be back on blogger
Tim

The apple era

Firstly some appologies to avid readers as i am aware people have been missing my regular blog posts. I have a number of excuses but that is all they are.... excuses! Further to that i have to appologise for a lack of posting over the next couple of weeks as i will be away o holiday and away on another managment confrence!

So how was the last confrence? Well despite clear aprihention and concern about how usefull it wold be i fully endorse the experience now! Made 15 great new friends and have some excellent stories. I am now looking forward to the second one.

So the first LMC went well and to make matters even better i had my apple mac delivered too so i am now writting my blog on that! WOO HOO Tomorow is the open day and a mild panic is going on inside as i have to pack for my holiday later on in the evening as welll.

Please let more people know about the blog so that its popularity grows and with that the KTP project gets better press!