EdTechUK

Records Management Toolkit for Schools

Over at eGov Monitor, Elizabeth Barber of the Records Management Society introduces a records management toolkit to help schools achieve FOI compliance:

"The purpose of the Records Management Toolkit for Schools is to provide all the records management which schools need to fulfil their requirements under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The toolkit contains:

• a sample records management policy
• tips and hints about records management and how to implement a records management programme
• retention guidelines based on the minimum retention periods for all the different record series which a school may create. "

podcasting - it isn't going away you know

It's no secret that Apple are including podcast support in the soon to be released iTunes 4.9. For iPod owners, this means integrated subscription and automatic upload of feeds, currently something you need an additional application for. The move raises the profile of podcasting and will increase it's appeal to the more generalist user.

I've been enthusiastic about the potential of podcasting for a while now, so I'm waiting keenly to see if Apple has any nasty restrictive surprises up it's pristine white sleeves.

In the meantime I'm checking out another excellent edugadget walk through - this one's on iStory Creator from iPodsoft, a story and quiz creator for your pod.   

The i's are really starting to iAnnoy me however. 

Online & accessible

One of my many summer projects is going to be a literature and practices review of current online accessibility, prior to a wholesale audit of the College's electronic assets. And here's a great place to start: Forcing Standardization or Accommodating Diversity? A Framework for Applying the WCAG in the Real World, a paper by Brian Kelly (UKOLN), David Sloan (Digital Media Access Group, University of Dundee), Lawrie Phipps (The Network Centre), Helen Petrie and Fraser Hamilton
(School of Informatics, City University).