CAS Community Leaders
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This is the community for all CAS community leaders. Here you are able to communicate with each other. Ask questions, share ideas and generally talk all things community leadership.
We will be using this community to communicate with you and we would encourage you to do the same.
To find a detailed archive of all the conversations that have taken place in this community head over to
CAS Community Leaders Online Discussion Forum
Here you will also find other conversations and resources to support you as community leaders.
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Hello! To celebrate all your amazing work we want to thank you all on our Social Media during National Volunteers Week (3rd-9th June). If you could fill this form out with a short quote on what being a CAS Community Leader means to you, that would be greatly appreciated
Friends,
I promised a brief up date on the survey that many of your kindly completed last term, here are some of the top line points and some of the thoughts and ideas we can collectively take away for this coming year.
The top lines from the recent survey
Over 75% wanted to continue being a CAS Community leader
That’s great! Thank you. Our involvement with the NCCE saw the opportunity to expand and build on the erstwhile CAS Hubs. One of the key contributions of CAS to the NCCE has been this network of local hubs. These hubs were established by CAS to provide support and training for teachers in computing, and have been an important part of the NCCE’s outreach and engagement work. As e move to new arrangements these community groups remain the foundation for CAS, acting as our “Computing Staff Room”. The place we can learn from others, seek encouragement and inspiration.
Over 78% would value more regular updates from CAS
Agreed, and noted! It’s not easy getting the balance right between too much and not enough communication but we’re working behind the scenes to improve on this and make it easier to disseminate some of the key information about what is happening in CAS. The website is clearly one of the places where news gets posted so do keep an eye out there and if there is anything further that you need you can always email (compatsch@bcs.uk) and it will get forwarded on to the right person.
The top three suggestions for improvement are:
This last one is a bug-bear for all of us right now! It does seem hard to get in contact with even those CAS members registered to our community. However, this has already been improved and on the homepage for your community there is now a link to “Message the Community” which will go direct to their Inboxes.
Part of the point of these bulletins is to suggest ideas for meetings which I hope is helpful …?
Finally the list of speakers … I’m on it and will work on that over the coming weeks and make this available on the Community Leader homepage.
Some personal highlights from the forum …
Discussions
Just the one this time as it is so central to all that we do and are doing as teachers in the classroom, but this discussion is fascinating and far-reaching and I encourage others to have a read and put id the 2d!
Resources
That’s all for now - I hope you have a lovely Easter holiday, with time to relax and recharge.
Best wishes
Simon
Hello Community Leaders , here something that might be of interest to yourselves and you communities. The importance of ethics and morals in IT - Can you help?
Friends,
I hope you managed a relaxing half-term managing to avoid too much marking and planning and return refreshed to the second half of the Spring Term? I’m not sure where the time goes.
It’s brilliant to see so many of you planning on hosting meetings with others in your area, either face to face or online. As ever in the CAS Community there’s a lot happening and it’s often hard to stay up to date. The intention here is to provide a quick summary of what has been happening, what is planned, ideas for meetings, how to get involved and connect and hopefully something useful you can take away and use in your own classrooms.
Thank you
Thank you to all of who who found the time to complete the short survey. It was really helpful. I’ll post out a summary soon.
Coffee and Chat
Our next informal get together will be on March 8th. Do sign up to join us. We’ll start at 4:30PM.
From the forum
How often do you manage to check in on the CAS Forum? There are a good range of topics and discussions taking place, and it’s OK to lurk, to like or even comment. Here’s what I’ve found interesting:
Resources
It’s great that almost every day teachers are sharing “stuff” they’ve used in their classroom. The whole rationale behind the CAS Resource library is precisely that! If it’s worked for you then it may well work for someone else. They’re not formally curated, that’s left to the community who download and use them to give feedback, adapt, re-upload and so on. Here’s a just a couple I’ve found interesting and useful:
Blogs
Classroom Opportunities
We’re always on the lookout for ideas to spark interest and activity, both for in-class and our computing clubs. Have you seen:
Have you thought …?
We all know how stretched teachers are right now but getting together to collaborate and share together can be so energizing. Have you thought about connecting with other Community Leaders in your area to hold joint meetings?
I hope that sparks some thoughts and ideas and I look forward to seeing you soon either in person, or at an online meeting or engaging through the forum and website.
Best wishes
Simon Humphreys
Community Leaders have a look at the latest updates on the CAS Website community Leaders page - Unauthorised Access - COMMUNITY LEADERS ONLY . You will need to login. Get in touch with compatsch@bcs.uk if you have any issues with Login.
You will two short vlogs on how to manage your profile and communicate with you community.
and if you haven’t seen it already an exclusive surprise for you all .
Stuart