New Name for "Learning Platform"

[EduTech]

Hi all,

 

I would like to pick your brains for the afternoon, not litrally!

 

Our Director of ICT came to me this morning with a question i am finding hard to answer, or provide input on the case maybe.

 

She has asked if i can come up with a new name for The Learning Platform, she said she does not like it being called that as it is boring so wondered if i could come up with something different.

 

She knows of another school who call there's "The Learning Hub" so wants to do the same.

 

So do you have any idea's on what we could call our "Learning Platform"

 

James.

[bossman]

@EduTech:

 

You asked for this

 

What about the "The Learning Hub" hehe!

[steveg]

I wouldn't say its any more exciting than Learning Platform, but we were told to call ours a CLC or connected learning community.

 

Steve

[HodgeHi]

Central Location Of Teaching Services Edited June 22, 2009 by HodgeHi

[skunk]

Teaching Oriented Student Service.

[apoth0r]

"Virtual Learning Environment"

"E-Learning Area"

"Home/School Learning Centre"

 

 

"Get the teachers to use it before we rename it...." ;-)

Edited June 22, 2009 by apoth0r

[bossman]

@EduTech:

 

What about "Active Resources for Student Education" a little long but you could abbreviate it and ask all the students to log into it.

 

;)

[plexer]

Interactive Education Gateway.

[DAckroyd]

Ours has lots of names given to it but none are repeatable

[Jamo]

Friendly Alternative Integrated Learning

[bossman]

What about this one (Skunk) take some credit!

 

Teacher Oriented Student Study Educational Resource Service.

 

Now that seems a good one ;)

[localzuk]

Portal of the future?

[webman]

Virtual Online Learning Environment

 

Virtual Information Learning Environment

 

Student and Teacher Interactive Network of Knowledge

 

Hub of Educational Learning

[plexer]

Interactive Learning Tool.

 

Ben

[apoth0r]

"The Frothy Unrestrained Cauldron of Knowledge"

[EduTech]

Oh BossMan you do make me laugh! fantastic!

 

Just trying to work out if it would look ok with loads of (*) in the name

 

Keep them coming though guys, hey who knows it might help another school who would like to change the name.

 

Oh and somehow, i dont think any of the above are going to be ok if people work out what the Abbreviate to lol

 

James.

Edited June 22, 2009 by EduTech

[IrritableTech]

Does it have to be descriptive? Moodle doesn't explain what it does, but is a nice word and has become known as a vle.

 

If I had my choice, I'd call it Bob.

[jamesb]

If I had my choice, I'd call it Bob.

 

I dunno, Bob seems more like a server to me. Maybe Fred, or Murray.

[EduTech]

Not really to be honest, she was going to call it "Jims Thing" Joke obviously, but yeah

[DAckroyd]

I dunno, Bob seems more like a server to me. Maybe Fred, or Murray.

 

Bob's already taken as an OS name

[p858snake]

Hi all,

 

I would like to pick your brains for the afternoon, not litrally!

 

Our Director of ICT came to me this morning with a question i am finding hard to answer, or provide input on the case maybe.

 

She has asked if i can come up with a new name for The Learning Platform, she said she does not like it being called that as it is boring so wondered if i could come up with something different.

 

She knows of another school who call there's "The Learning Hub" so wants to do the same.

 

So do you have any idea's on what we could call our "Learning Platform"

 

James.

Thats what TAFE calls it libraries over here, and i never really got the point of the name since it's not really a hub just a book sorting service :shiftyeyes: and a couch provider, our VLE is called MyTAFE, yes... very original (but whats the point of naming a blackboard install that everyone hates).

[CyberNerd]

Our course management system (moodle), social networking platform (drupaled), email system (zimbra) are collectively known and the "online learning community" OLC

[elloyd69]

Teaching Oriented Student Service.

 

Haha........I like this!!

[NewOrder]

The reason they are called Learning Platforms goes back to the Becta functional specs and now used by Partnership for schools in BSF. It was to stop the confusion between, vle, mle and so on.

 

I guess you will be moving to your BSF providers LP in the near future, so why bother naming it.

[EduTech]

The reason they are called Learning Platforms goes back to the Becta functional specs and now used by Partnership for schools in BSF. It was to stop the confusion between, vle, mle and so on.

 

I guess you will be moving to your BSF providers LP in the near future, so why bother naming it.

 

I dont mind it being called Learning Platform, as that is what we use SharePoint for, and TALMOS is obviously our Learning Enviroment.

 

She is just one of those people who have crazy minds I dont have a problem with it being called something different as a whole but i dont have a very good mind for naming things unless it's servers

 

Which is why i asked here, but i kind of knew i would get the above replys they made me and my boss smile but i just dont know how she and the dep head will take it... to be honest they might not even catch on to the fact what they abriviate to

 

James.