Today was the third annual Curriculum Planning Day for the Geography department. These days are designed to enable the team to construct the curriculum. This post will outline some of the tools that were used during the day. Any day that the team are together, whether it be an off-site planning day like this one, or a residential, there is always the opportunity to strengthen the team. We used two collaborative tools today: Microsoft’s Office Live Apps and, an old favourite, Google Docs. They were used for two reasons, the first was to familiarise the who department with how the tools could be used with pupils, and because I think that it’s a nice way to work (okay, I just lose paper!). Office Live a a recent innovation. Through the Skydrive I created a shared folder: This contained all of the documents needed for the day. I prefer using Office Apps because more people are familiar with the layout of Office documents. With some of the team ...
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