{"id":899,"date":"2007-07-31T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2007\/07\/31\/new-online-groups-2\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T15:12:00","slug":"new-online-groups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/new-online-groups-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New online groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I returned from my secondment, I said that I would re-invigorate the online communities and I’ve now set up a number of new groups to support various SQA awards. I’ve chosen Jiglu <\/a>to host the groups since I prefer this service to Yahoo Groups – but neither one is as good as Smartgroups (RIP) in my opinion. Here are the groups…<\/p>\n

There is a group to support the new National Certificate in Digital Media Computing<\/a>, one to support HNC\/D Computing<\/a>, one for HNC Interactive Media<\/a>, and one for HNC\/D Information Technology<\/a>. It’s straight-forward to subscribe to these groups – simply visit the home page and select “Join space” (left-hand column). Please note that you have to register with Jiglu<\/a> before you can join a group (or “space” in Jiglu terminology).<\/p>\n

The existing groups will continue. There’s a generic mailing list<\/a> hosted by Yahoo (for all Computing-related qualifications), and a dedicated Jiglu group for Internet Safety<\/a>. I would particularly encourage you to subscribe to the mailing list (it currently has over 650 members) since this is where many announcements are made.<\/p>\n

None of these groups replace the traditional means of communication. Every important development will be notified in the usual way (letter to centres and\/or e-mail to SQA Co-ordinators). But they provide a uniquely interactive means of communicating with you and also for you to provide support to your colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I returned from my secondment, I said that I would re-invigorate the online communities and I’ve now set up a number of new groups to support various SQA awards. I’ve chosen Jiglu to host the groups since I prefer this service to Yahoo Groups – but neither one is as good as Smartgroups (RIP) in my opinion. Here are the groups… There is a group to support the new National Certificate in Digital Media Computing, one to support HNC\/D…<\/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\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}