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I read somewhere that a cinema can make over a million pounds PROFIT a year on pop corn. Apparently, it has a much greater profit margin that turning poppies into heroin.

Wonderful... absolutely wonderful. A poem of a phrase.

No, indeed... just the vast majority of people who appear to voice their opinions on the matter... and not just here, either. So, the Top Gear team at your school aren't impressed and the learner drivers are? A ringing endorsement, indeed. I was initially impressed with it and evangelised avidly at my school... it does indeed have a superficial 'cleverness' about it. just like your teachers, I said that I WOULD use it. Then I actually DID start using it. Oh dear. If it works for the teachers, that's great. I, like your teachers, am using it... I take it from your upbeat mood that they are actually using it successfully and not still at the WOULD stage...? I'm hoping it will get better. It is the only system we have. I am hoping it will reveal some little nugget of wonderfulness that is, at present, keeping itself hidden...after all, like you there, that's what we've been lumbered with and we all have to make the best of whatever has been issued to us to use.

Because if enough people complain, then the powers that be might get the message that it is pants. I think you've just answered the question yourself.... you probably aren't going to convince them! It is not IT savvy people who determine the success or failure of a system, it's the rank and file users.

Your sole occupation? You are lucky... I'm a tech reacher, not an IT teacher, and I still have to deal with it on top of a busy timetable... along with knowing that, for me, it is pretty well useless. I reckon even building a model of Westminster Abbey out of toothpicks wouldn't seem too daunting if it were all one had to do! I don't have previous 'baggage' either, as I only had it foisted on me a few months ago. Sorry to seem a little cautious, zdenka, but as it is your sole occupation, it would possibly not be in your vested interest to be very negative about Kaleidos?!

Sounds great... might check that one out!

Oh, goodness.... don't... the risks just don't bear thinking about.

Ooh.... Health and Safety... I hope whoever is hanging them has done a risk assessment. High vis vests... orange cones with flashing lights... safety training... visors... hard hats... sealed-off exclusion zone...

Ludo? That's more like it... Football? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Old? Some of you young whippersnappers don't know what 'old' is... in my day, old was REALLY old... people knew what old was then. Nurse? ... NURSE! ....

And, unfortunately, it probably won't be while people think (sometimes mistakenly, sometimes not) that there are more familiar, less scary and more convenient ways of getting information than a learning platform. I've had the same situation with the faculty website I created... people don't know how useful it mght be because they will not venture there. No password is needed and all they have to do for the front page to come up is click on the link I send them. Yet, when I sit them down and make them actually look at a computer screen while I bring up the website, they go 'Oh, that's good... how long has that been there?". So, regarding Kaleidos.... fat ruddy chance of them looking at THAT.

I can see Kaleidos working for teachers who teach topics across different subjects (i.e. primary teachers). The overlap and the interconnectivity needed would be well served by a VLE. As a Technology/Art teacher in a secondary school, however, I have yet to be convinced that Kaleidos is better than what I am doing at the moment. I have found much easier and far less long-winded ways of sharing resources etc over the 'net than Kaleidos.

Then it will just go away... it is the silent majority who don't use it who will ultimately decide its future. In my thirty years of teaching I have seen many much better initiatives than Kaleidos go under simply because people wouldn't utilise them.

G-Jackson, I share your frustrations regarding getting bolshy staff to look at kaleidos... but I can see where they are coming from, too. When we have something to communicate to staff, we tend to just use email.

Would answer localzuk.... a good point, I'm sure... but sunny outside and here I am looking at posts on lanyards. logging off and going into garden.... bye and poss speak later!