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For those of you out there interested in generating surveys and analysing responses, there is a great online tool called Surveymonkey.

Surveymonkey will create online surveys for you. You can choose between multiple choice reponses, rating scales or open ended text. The basic package is free but you are limited to 10 questions and a 100 responses per survey. The survey is published as a web page with a specific address that can either be included on a web site or added as an email.

I have already enrolled and have used the survey to gather information from schools and I certainly recommend the program.

You can access Survey Monkey at the following website http://www.surveymonkey.com

Thursday June 7th 2007 at the Earles Court Conference Centre.

Probably one of the best conferences I have attended.

As mentioned in previous blog entries, the virtues of ‘personalised learning’  are widely extolled but there is still a lot of confusion about the meaning behind the term. With the pressure on  to choose  a suitable Learning Platform for proposed Managed Learning Environments, it is important than ever, that school communities  develop a shared understanding of what this term means.

With this aim in mind I attended the conference yesterday and was pleased to see a staff representative from Langley Park School for Girls and Newstead Wood School for Girls in attendance.

Key speakers at the conference included Kathy August (Principal Manchester Academy), Kathy Baker and Andrew Hudson (General Teaching Council for England), John Baumber (Executive Principal-The Brook Learning Partnership), Sonette Schwartz (Headteacher Cornwallis School Kent) Liz Cresswell (Deputy Head Teacher Brighouse High School ) and Kai Vacher (Specialist Schools Trust).

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Following changes made by the QCA to the current A Level subject criteria, OCR have revised all their A Level specifications to make sure they comply with the new criteria.

OCR have provided summaries of the revised specifications as well as comparisons explaining what has been changed.

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