Mullett's Corner

It's been a few months now, my Chromebook still goes with me to every single meeting at work. From keeping notes on & offline using Google Keep, to collaborating (Google Docs of course) on a discussion paper while sitting in the local Coffice with a colleague  +Aaron Burrell . My use of Google Apps has exploded and I now use a plethora of Googles tools and extensions to optimise and make my work effective and efficient. I guess there's almost a slight smugness about it. Mainly because all the things I worried about before no longer exist and everything I do use in my Google suite is so incredibly easy, it's almost laughable. But somethings wrong, I feel rather alone with it all, yes other members of my team BOTH (yes three people in the team) use Google Apps effectively, but that's it. It frustrates me, knowing that the rest the institution I work for still work using, certainly in my eyes, archaic technologies in their everyday work. Slow machines running ...

Derek Bruff -  http://flic.kr/p/dfYsNB I've noticed something here at work, witness to an imbalance of available resources. We provide a lot here at our institution for students, student inductions talking about all types of technology, inside and outside of the institution to help their learning. We provide drop-ins for students in a dedicated area within the library, a large support network and the introduction of more effective informal learning spaces. Now don't get me wrong, we provide staff with a lot of resources, hub and spoke, which is used with varying success where we are placed in specific divisions or schools. Staff, and students for that matter can access our blogs which detail projects and pilots. We also get a lot of traffic through word of mouth. We have had some great progress with 'some' staff who walk away and run with what they have learnt, dedicate the time and succeed.  The rest... 'I don't have time", the complaint I...