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Fasttrack DVD Production Completed and Distributed Nationally

2003-07-31

The Fasttrack Community was one of several developed for the National College for School Leadership by Ultralab and originally used the Think.com software, later to become 'Talk2Learn'. The Department for Education and Skills (DfES), who were the 'owners' of the Fasttrack project

The Fasttrack Community was one of several developed for the National College for School Leadership by Ultralab and originally used the Think.com software, later to become 'Talk2Learn'. The Department for Education and Skills (DfES), who were the 'owners' of the Fasttrack project, requested a training DVD to help users learn about how the community software worked. The project was funded by NCSL. We discussed how this project might work and decided with the DfES that it would be far better if the people engaged in the Fasttrack process were the ones who explained how the community software worked, and described how it helps them (or not) with the things that they do. Consequently, Matthew Eaves and I found ourselves filming in different parts of the country interviewing 'Fasttrackers' and finding out what they did when they went on line. We went from Canterbury to Reading to Skipton to Cambridge - a real 'points of the compass' kind of project. It was important to aim the content of this disc at the intended audience and so a deliberate approach was taken to show the Fasttrack people in their own environment at work and reflect realistically how they used the online community throu…

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