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Welcome to our new Digital Curriculum Team blog; providing a Kent perspective on Learning Platforms as headlines sweep across education. I shall keep you informed of the fast pace of developements and offer a co-ordinated point of contact to schools within Kent.
First of all some background, why me and who am I. My name is Donna Rogers I am a member of the Digital Curriculum Team, which is headed by Alan Day.
I come from a strong ‘Managing Change’, processes and people skills background in the private sector. I moved to education in 2000, joining a rural primary school, which at that time was quite ICT timid. Working closely with SMT I have helped lead the school through several ICT evolving stages, fostering a clear vision for improvement, stated in educational terms and translated this into technology requirements. While co-ordinating organised approaches beneficial to teaching and learning I used the 'BECTA Self Review Framework', developing a whole school vision which led to ICT Mark accreditation in March 2005.
I have worked and used Learning Platform technologies both in the classroom and then as cluster project manager over the last 3 years. This experience led to a secondment to Kent County Council’s - Children, Families and Education division co-ordinating local authority approach to Learning Platforms. Advising primary and secondary schools towards their vision, strategic approach and preparation of multi-vendor emerging technologies.
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