Finnberry does Ed-Tech

On 1st May, I began my new role as Area Manager - Digital. I still work for the council, which means I have to be careful about what I blog about, but I do want to share some of the things I am doing and learning in this new role. The first month has almost gone and it has flown by. My old job was extremely fast moving and it was easy for a week to fly past without me noticing. Well this is a different kind of busy and I much prefer it. When I was managing two busy adult learning centres, I had hundreds of different things that would all land on my desk, claiming to be urgent on a given day. For the last month, I've had one main task (with a few little extras) to concentrate on. It has been really great to be able to focus on one thing for a sustained period of time and not have other things pulling me away from it. Project Initiation Document So what have I spent the last three weeks doing? My new job has several IT projects attached to it. The first one is a hardware and infr...

I've got a number of projects going on at the moment, both at home and at work. I'd been using some free Gantt chart tool but it was one of those where the free version had more limitations than usable features, so I started looking for something else. That's when I found Trello. It's not at all Gantty but I like the layout - really visual - and it's easy to use. Home screen Like most other online tools, you have to register and then log in to use it. When you open Trello and log in, you go to your home screen, which looks like this... I've got four active projects at the moment and I've starred two of them, so that they are always at the top and easy to find. To enter your project, click on the picture. Incidentally, there's a huge bank of background images to choose from, so I like to find something appropriate to each project. Project When you start a project, you get a blank screen, where you start by adding column titles. For this hous...