You can also visit the SUG (Sharepoint User Group). It's mainly business orientated but they're very helpful.
There's an update of Nottingham University's content creation tool, Xerte, available for free here
At the end of teacher interviews we would always ask what does this person bring to the job that the others don't? Where's the "value added" to this person? How will they add to and improve the education of the pupils and the ethos of the school? As a school governor If I asked that of prospective teachers, then I have to ask it of myself in the work I do. It's about self respect.
New teachers can be employed for a probationary period. I used to do it as a school governor. They would be told that they and their work would be reviewed after the first year. OK, it's probably not the sort of probationary period you'd get in industry, but the option is there.
Northgate reps are in our school tomorrow (06.12.07) for a meeting with the NM and myself. Tho' the head tells me that they haven't even decided if they're going to bid to manage the services in our LEA, I have a sneaky suspicion that they just might.
I really would like to hear from anyone in the Bristol area and N. Ireland, or anywhere else they are providing a service, just how they go about their business.
There was a vacancy for someone to maintain and populate a school VLE in one of my neighbouring boroughs, term time only, maxing out at £16.5K a year. For this they wanted someone who could find their way around the Macromedia suite of products, could liaise with teachers and put their ideas into action and develop new material themselves.
Just a couple of points here simonti, first, you seem to have posted this in the wrong forum, and second, if you're representative of the sort of person that exam-builder turn out I suggest you ask for your money back.