Welcome to my eFolio
Way back in 1963 I started out on my career as a teacher of Design
and Technology. I have always been a 'problem solver' and
thus when computers first arrived on the education scene, in about
1980, I was one of the first to see how computing could make life
easier for both teachers and pupils. And this has been my
mission ever since!
Here in the UK over the last two decades a steady revolution has
been unfolding in our schools.
Many schools started using a stand-alone computer in their school
office for simple administrative tasks and, significantly, the
transmission of end-of-year data to the Local Authority which they,
in turn, would pass on to the pupil's next school.
Concurently, schools were also begining to use computers for simple
curriculum management tasks, like examination results, and slowly
became used in classrooms. Soon, small numbers of computers
were networked together in one room - and we saw the primitive
evolution of the 'computer lab'.
However, for many years, because of fears about
security, the Admin systems and curriculum systems were kept
quite separate. It is only in recent years that office
administrators and senior staff have begun to accept that
integrated systems or VLEs give considerable benefits to all
stakeholders
This portfolio, therefore, documents my 'life-work' particularly in
the development of computing in education and, in particular, the
inestimable benefits that the e-Portfolio has to offer at this
time.
