{"id":421,"date":"2011-07-25T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2011\/07\/25\/agm\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:12:00","slug":"agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/agm\/","title":{"rendered":"AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/meeting-with-scotlands-colleges-team.html\">Our meeting with Colin and Gerry from Scotland&#8217;s Colleges last Thursday<\/a> was part of the team&#8217;s &#8220;AGM&#8221;. Once per year we try to find a day to get away from our e-mails and telephones to discuss more strategic issues.<\/p>\n<p>Our relationship with Scotland&#8217;s Colleges is clearly one such issue, but we also discussed other things. We reviewed the membership of committees. We run three committees: the <i>Sector Panel for Computing &amp; IT<\/i>; and the <i>Qualifications Support Teams <\/i>for NC\/NPA and HN\/PDA awards. The Sector Panel and the QST for HN awards are OK, but we need more members for the QST for NC awards so please <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">contact Hilary<\/a> if you are interested in joining.<\/p>\n<p>We make a specific effort at these meetings to review our use of technology. For example, at our AGM in <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/team-training.html\">2009 <\/a>we decided to use Twitter to communicate with centres (there are now almost 250 followers). In <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/team-development-day.html\">2010 <\/a>we decided not to use something &#8212; we felt wikis were not ready for serious use as a collaborative writing tool (at least for our purposes). At this year&#8217;s meeting we looked at video communication, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/intl\/en-gb\/home\">Skype<\/a>, and agreed to try to use this more often to communicate with stakeholders. We can review the success of this idea at next year&#8217;s AGM!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bobby.elliott@sqa.org.uk\">Contact me<\/a> if you have any ideas about how the team can work more effectively with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our meeting with Colin and Gerry from Scotland&#8217;s Colleges last Thursday was part of the team&#8217;s &#8220;AGM&#8221;. Once per year we try to find a day to get away from our e-mails and telephones to discuss more strategic issues. Our relationship with Scotland&#8217;s Colleges is clearly one such issue, but we also discussed other things. We reviewed the membership of committees. We run three committees: the Sector Panel for Computing &amp; IT; and the Qualifications Support Teams for NC\/NPA and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}