So, five weeks into my new school and the Head Teachers shows me a letter that he'd received saying that the school had been chosen to join a panel to evaluate and select a Learning Platform to be used throughout the county.
Well, tonight I looked carefully on the Becta website at the list of accredited suppliers. There was the company that is currently providing the county with a staff LP system. It works. It does what it says on the tin. There isn't much more to add to that one.
Then there was the company that currently provides schools with cached curriculum content. I can see potential there if they know what they are doing.
There were others too that talked the talk - but none of them showed any images of what their LP looks like (are they not yet built?)
And then, as a shiver ran down my spine, I noted the name of one more company accredited to provide a LP. It is a company famous for its locked down PCs - and for an inability to show any flexibility when it came to installing additional software. I really do dread to think of the restrictions, blocks and "security features" it would put into its LP if chosen. Oh - and for those still struggling to name it - it has two letters in its title. Any guesses?
