General Teaching Council website
                   I was invited to this consultation meeting to offer the GTC advice on the design of their website
                
            
            
        
                             
                             
                             | When | Feb 17, 2000 | 
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| Where | London | 
My contributions:
The GTC Web Site: Purposes, Content, Services, Stages of Development
| Teachers' need | The issue | The evidence | 
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| to identify their needs (but not 100 times) | filling in search forms and registering on many commercial sites is difficult to sustain and is a barrier to efficiency and take-up | how many logins and passwords do you have? | 
| to find resources which match their needs | why should the search for resources(people, materials, CPD) be laborious, when the results could be automatically 'pushed' to you according to preference? | CNN News etc | 
| to be engaged in their CPD through reflective practice | computers can help through tools which make abstractions more concrete and through aggregates which reveal how one fits in or stands out | mPowerNet online profiling model | 
| to store a model (profile) of themself on a trusted, independent organisation's server | making judgements about oneself is tough - confidence in the security of data is vital as is the knowledge that it is solely to serve the teacher's needs | Research at ULTRALAB / APU SoE | 
| to participate in online debate and professional discussion | online access to a wide range of teachers is clearly beneficial, particularly for isolated specialisms | SENCO forum and many others | 

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