I’m a mid 50’s individual with a portfolio career in two parts – one part has been as a cave explorer, participating in around 20 major overseas expeditions, mostly to the arc of countries from Central Asia down to New Guinea: I have a particular passion for the caves of the G.Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Borneo.
The other part has involved working as a teacher, managing big training programmes for adults and young people, being a management and training consultant, running a Climbing Centre, and being the Director of various small businesses including SBLN Ltd, the pioneering Internet training organisation that established the Cyberskills programme (now owned by Fujitsu). When I was MD of SBLN, we were involved in the Web for Schools project and trained 700 teachers from 15 countries (and through them over 2000 students) to undertake collaborative online project work. This was in the days before web-authoring tools and, even then, the power of this medium was obvious.
For the last few years I’ve worked outside education in the field of small business support programmes and I have seen how the potential for collaborative project working, as an educational medium, could contribute to meeting the needs of UK businesses, particularly through enhancing communication, creativity and innovation. By contrast, watching my own kids learning ICT at school has been a frustrating process…
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Kevin Redpath
// Jul 11, 2008 at 11:10 pm
>Sorry guys, it appears I’m too late, they’ve taken it down. I thought I
>had a day left.
>D
Well, that provided a bit of excitement while it lasted. Just finished three shiny video e-business case studies for SWRDA and dutifully sent off the flash files for hosting on their website. A few days later I get an email. ‘ Er, we have a problem Houston. Not a technical one but more of a financial one…..’. Now tell me. You are the CEO of a regional public quango, t/o about £146 million pa, but you can’t find >£100 to give the ICT team to enable them to host a few flash files. I think we should all stand up and ask for a refund, or at least commission an independent audit on the general level of insanity.
Be good to have a chat with you at some point about a new idea I am working on called The Zero Carbon Conference Company. Planning an event next February in Taunton.
Keep your pecker up – at least it doesn’t rain in caves…..
K
PS – A really impressive blog….
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