My third visit to Maidstone today and I feel like we're really starting to make progress already.
Tracy is getting rolling with the Training Needs Analysis and wants some help understanding how to assess IT training needs. SCIP has developed a simple framework for this as part of its ICT plans, which can be viewed online at <a href="http://www.scip.org.uk/ictplans/">ICT Plans</a>
We met with Doug Smart from the Kent County Council's IT support service. They offer technical support to schools as well as having three bases for IT training across the county. We hope to run some traiing there in January - the traiing rooms are the size of a typical school classroom but have only eight workstations - lots of lovely room for people and some nice little gadgets for tecahing like a large tablet screen pc for the tutor machine.
Caroline [Toher] and I then identified a couple ofm opportunities ofr building more links locally, especially on the back of the fundraising course she came to that I ran in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. Digital Maidstone has a new directory of funding information and we've arranged to visit David, the man behind it, when I visit next time.
We also made contact with the pople organising the Kent Funding Fair in February, so that we can deliver the 30 minute fundraising training course. This will help raise the profile of the project as well as providing a useful addition to the Funding Fair and help SCIP to begin building wider links in the area.
Next visit 21 November
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