[Year 12 IT Apps] OT-- Staffr ICT AUDIT

[ken price]

Hi Andrew,

There are several skills audits available from Becta and others at
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/ictrubrics/, some of which could be
built as online tools.

Having done this several times before, I think the main issue with these is
that they assume all teachers need a common set of skills, and I'm not
convinced this is the case.

For example, if you find all your Art teachers have no database skills, what
action would this prompt? And why? What might be your response if they say
"yes, we acknowledge that we can't design a database, but we believe that
our subject area benefits more from deeper use of image manipulation
software and more sophisticated web searching, and that's where we will
putting our PD  efforts"?

So in the end - what is the real value of the ICT skills audit? Would a PD
needs evaluation be more useful perhaps, or something along the lines of the
UK Self-review Framework
http://matrix.becta.org.uk/GMATRIX_983187_35403584/1203470671959/rebrand/matrix/srf/index.cfm
?

Ken

On 2/18/08, WEIR Andrew <andrew.weir at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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>  Dear all,
> Apologies for the off topic post but I needed to ask the question.
> In the past there as been mention of staff ICT audit tools, Can anybody
> remember what they were.
> I am really looking for an option we can run internally on either as a
> moodle questionnaire or a php page.
> Want to try and get a picture of ICT skills so that we can target the
> training.
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
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>
> *Andrew** Weir*
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