Reflecting ...

Had a week's holiday earlier this month (a few days in Weymouth, lovely weather, swam in the sea!), came back to my desk to a bit of a backlog. At the end of that week our lovely Schools Liaison Officer left us for pastures new, and my boss was off on her hols for two weeks, so there was quite a lot to sort out before they went. As a result, the Things got a bit neglected. However, fortunately quite a few of them were things I was already familiar with - here's a quick round-up of comments:

Screen-casting: This was new to me, and I can see that it could be very useful. The Cambridge Admissions Office used this technique to explain to applicants how to fill in the Supplementary Application Questionnaire, I seem to remember, and it was very successful. However, I don't think it's going to be something I will need in the near future - just as well, as the college system was very reluctant to let me load Screencast-o-matic.

Doodle: I've been using this for a while, mainly in the book groups I belong to (three, at the last count!) and guess what - I was introduced to it by a librarian! Brilliant tool, and I plan to indoctrinate my office colleagues as soon as a suitable opportunity comes up.

Google calendar: The Admissions team use this as a means of keeping everyone in the loop as regards who is in the office on a specific day, who is on school visits, when Open Days are scheduled etc. I have separate calendars for work and personal commitments, but the Admissions Tutor doesn't discriminate between the two, so occasionally we come across events such as children's dental appointments, Brownie meetings or Pilates classes too. Very useful, but we have found it a bit fiddly adding new people (new SLO starts next month) and giving them access to each other's calendars. Not always very intuitive.

OK, will stop there for now, and do Week 5 Things in a separate post.

LightShot is brilliant!

Thanks Ange! Just look at this pic of my very new great-niece as seen on Facebook:



All together now: aaaah!

Tweet tweet!

Well here I am at Thing 4 - rather belatedly. I have been on Twitter for a while now, and still don't really see the attraction. Although I have to admit that it's a source of entertainment on long train journeys, now that I can get it on my phone; it would be even better if I could work out how to RT things on the phone ...

Don't think we'll be using it to communicate with applicants any time soon - some of them seem to have difficulty in grasping the concept of replying to emails, so this would definitely be a step too far for them! For similar reasons, I don't think I'll be trying out the 'extras' this week. But thanks for the recommendations!