{"id":633,"date":"2009-12-04T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2009\/12\/04\/heads-of-computing-annual-meeting\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:38:00","slug":"heads-of-computing-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/heads-of-computing-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads of Computing annual meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, we organise an event for Heads of Computing in Scotland&#8217;s 43 FE colleges. We held this year&#8217;s event today. Around 40 people attended, which is pretty much someone from every college in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The day seemed to go well, although we won&#8217;t know for sure until we get the results from the post-event survey. If you attended, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/J9GHCHM\">complete this short questionnaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the event was the recent HMIe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/aspect-report-for-computing.html\">Aspect report<\/a> on the teaching of Computing in the college sector. Walter Patterson summarised the report&#8217;s findings, and Ron Dillin led a workshop on the report&#8217;s recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t just the Aspect report. My own presentation outlined the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/operational-plan-for-201011.html\">current and forthcoming developments in Computing<\/a>, including the new NPAs in Computer Games, to assist the Heads with the development plans for next year. Nigel Kennington gave a presentation on HNC\/D Computer Games Development. Colin Buchanan did a demonstration of a new online forum. And, of course, I reminded everyone about the <a href=\"http:\/\/computing.groupsite.com\/\">SQA Groupsite<\/a> (now thi 108 members) and our <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sqacomputing\">new Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll upload and share the presentations once I have collated them. Thanks to everyone who took the time out of their busy schedules to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, we organise an event for Heads of Computing in Scotland&#8217;s 43 FE colleges. We held this year&#8217;s event today. Around 40 people attended, which is pretty much someone from every college in Scotland. The day seemed to go well, although we won&#8217;t know for sure until we get the results from the post-event survey. If you attended, please complete this short questionnaire. The focus of the event was the recent HMIe&#8217;s Aspect report on the teaching of Computing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}