Re: Meeting with MoE in March

Allan Samaroo wrote:
> First things first.........ross, is the meeting with the MoE still on this
> month?  How closed doors is it?

My current thinking is to have an initial meeting under the guise of a
ELearning Research Group meeting at UWI. These are open meetings and all 
are welcome. This is because the initial contact was made regarding some 
work the research group is doing. At this meeting I intend to make 
everyone fully aware of CIS. I do not think, at this stage, that CIS is 
strong enough to warrant attention from the MoE, but since the project 
they are interested in will shortly be proposed as a CIS project this 
may soon change..

>  On of my lecturers works at the Valsayn
> Teachers College (VTC) in the IT dept there.............the VTC trains our
> primary school teachers in the curriculum etc...........I've spoken to him
> about CIS and he's very interested and has also given us permission to use
> the computer lab in the VTC to do whatever we want..........

Interestingly we recently submitted a proposal for some more funding in
which we said a relationship with VTC is importnant. This project is 
about curriculum development and is indeed something else the MoE are 
interested in. Can we meet before the MoE meeting. We need to present a 
unified and coordinated face to do this we need to ensure we are all on 
the same page to start with.

> back to my
> point, I think he will be an asset to the meeting with the director of
> curriculum as he can directly relate to both our field and the primary
> school teachers, plus he's been in the system long enough to understand how
> it works and how to use it..............

In principle I agree, however, as mentioned above I think it is 
important to meet first to ensure that this is the case and we are all 
pushing in the same direction.

> 
> He's interested in meeting you to talk about the general CIS........can we
> set up a short meeting this week?

As you can see I am typing as I read. You are clearly in agreement with 
me. I'll contact you regarding a meeting when I get into work tomorrow 
and get my hands on my updated diary (things book up fast when I am away).

Ross