I really enjoyed the online session yesterday - even though it seemed to last forever! It was great to put voices to names - and to meet online with folk I know from other contexts.

I greatly appreciated being talked through the Elluminate software - having facilitated a planning meeting with it earlier in the day. Thanks to our facilitators, a lot of the features are now much clearer - great job.

During the earlier meeting, I was unaware of the opportunity to have more than one mike on at a time, or how to record the session.  My colleagues fed back that they prefer to work on Skype and voted to use it next time.

I have been working on the Primary Science Teachers’ project that I mentioned before. There is a f2f and an online component, the latter was hosted on Ning, but funding cuts and Ning’s charging rates mean moving to Grouply.  Because we have a new group of teachers starting in a couple of weeks, I have set up a wiki to tide things over in the interim, till the Grouply site is ready.

I am intending to get the new group to set up individual blogs to reflect on their progress, as well as asking them to contribute to the group’s online space.

I am concerned that in moving from Ning to Grouply, we might lose some of the teachers in earlier groups, some of whom are resistant to working online, because of the hassle involved in moving.  I hope that having a 3 month overlap between Ning and Grouply will allow time for the change to be made with minimal disruption.