So it goes ...

With acknowledgement to Billy Joel and the Kurt Vonnegut ...(for the title of this post)

What seems like a very long time ago now Tricia Neal and I (and others)worked with Becta to begin to the fly the kite of online learning. We put together online conferences and invited suppliers to have their own online space attached to them.

Ahead of our time, we were not successful in engaging people in the affairs because of technical, cultural(in its widest sense) and personal reasons.

One of the things we tried out was trying to persuade schools and Local Authorities to have a 'blended' inset session in their own schools or centres where the session was prepared and directed externally but received and supported in the schools. No travel costs, no supply cover, food provided by staff themselves, short sessions. We felt we were on to something very positive ....... but no ... we were too early ...

Today trawling through my feeds I read on the 'Ideas and Thoughts Blog' that this suggestion is offered as a really positive way to use the materials of the K12 Online Conference ... I couldn't agree more and would be very interested to hear of anyone taking up the idea.