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New faces at Jiva..

As well as our shiny new website there are a couple of new faces at Jiva this week.

Theo joins us from web hosting company Krystal as a developer and apart from briefly killing the wifi on his second day is settling in and itching to get his hands dirty.  He is a graduate of Southampton Uni and greatly brings down the average age in the office!

The other newcomer is myself. I’m Matt and have joined Jiva as a community manager and blogger mainly for Beanbag but I’ll also pop up on other Jiva projects from time to time and this website regularly. I come from a background managing websites and other digital communications projects mainly in and around higher education and am looking forward to this new challenge.

Learning outside the classroom

The DCSF campaign to get teachers working outside of the classroom has been boosted this week with the launch of the Teaching Outside of the Classroom website. The aim is for trainee teachers to go on placements during their training at non-school educational sites, such as adventure centres and museums. The manifesto for this was launched about 6 months ago and the website is intended as a mechanism to allow interested organisations etc to sign up to be involved.

Via Ben Williamson on the Flux blog.

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