[Marketing] targeting technically adept teachers

[Caroline Meeks]

Sean,

This sounds great.  Do we want to do it now or wait till Beta-2 is out?

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> Caroline, the other day on the bus we had talked about the advantages
> of trying to reach technically adept teachers - those who understand
> the classroom and are able to solve minor technical problems which
> would block a non-tech-savvy teacher.
>
> I think I may have found a contact list on the UK ICT Register site.
>
> Listed schools are noted for using ICT ("Information and Communication
> Technologies", a bit of a govspeak term) in education.
>
> As an example on their site here: http://www.ict-register.net
>
> There is a section "Other aspects of using ICT for teaching/learning"
>
> http://www.ict-register.net/browse.php?action=list&cat=2&subcat=12&osx1=&osy1=&postcode=
>
> And clicking on it I find this:
> http://www.ict-register.net/browse.php?action=one&id=1641&sch_id=307
> "...a member of the ICT department was a primary school teacher for 13
> years and can use this experience to work with primary school ICT
> Coordinators to establish what ICT support is needed. This ICT teacher
> can offer Inset for teaching and support staff, plan and teach lessons
> for primary staff to observe and involve local primary pupils in a
> Multimedia Club which takes place after school."
>
> Perhaps contacting some educators like this and asking them to do a
> focus group with SoaS could generate useful feedback (and help us
> build positive stories)?
>
> Or at the very least bring the IAEP list to their atttention and help
> us recruit contributors?
>
> Sean
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