I am quitting a few forums.
Computing at School
Back in 2014, I joined computing at school. At the time it was hoped that I could not only contribute but also gain contacts that may lead to work and or other opportunities.
It seems, that there is little interest in or opportunity Torbay, Devon. Despite efforts to get a CAS group going in Torbay, this is from both myself and a CAS South West coordinator, This has failed to get going. I tried to promote CAS at a Lego we do event too. So it is not like I have not tired.
Here in Torbay we don't seen to be a priority.
Over the past few months, I have been posting items to the South Devon Forum, links to activities, (e.g Moon hack), tech jams and other events. Zero interest.
Frustrated by the lack of progress. On 11/6/2020, I decided to just quit the CAS forum and website. I made it clear why I had quit. It will be interesting to see if anyone bothers or cares.
Apparently, I could be an asset and useful to schools, but no one is interested. I was hoping that CAS would help me get by foot in the door. One local school like my skills, but have no budget, so for me it is just frustrating.
E-learning support forum / group on Torbay Together
About 7 months or so ago, I set up a e-learning support forum on Torbay Together.
I think 7 months is sufficient time to figure out something is not working.
The aim of this was to try to reach out to people who would like to explore online learning opportunities, provide a place for people to discuss, swap their experiences and suggestions for good courses and providers. Not everyone can attend college, not everyone can afford to. I had thought this may be really beneficial to, for example young carers.
Sadly, this has not got anywhere either. I am therefore deleting this forum too. Part the issue is, that, I have told people about it, they seem interested but then find the platform so complex they struggle to use it, trying to ask people who can help to help them, just ends up with people going round in circles.
So what will I be doing?
New e-learning forum on Mastodon
With fantastic support from the admins / staff / users on Qoto.org Mastodon Instance. The e-learning support forum is making some excellent progress. So if you are interested in discussing e-learning, there are 1000's of opportunities out there, lets get sharing.
Please sign up at the above link and mention me (@zleap) and that you're interested in the e-learning forum, we can then set you up on discourse, but we encourage people to join the general STEM conversation on Mastodon too.
By using Mastodon, I can keep the forum open to ALL ages too. Mastodon also does not collect huge amounts of information, and to be honest neither do most of the e-learning forums.
Why use Mastodon? – Privacy, and it just works.
Why use Discourse? – It just works.
Paignton Code Club
Supporting Paignton Library Code Club, This is currently virtual, for some reason despite our best efforts to promote there is little interest.
Nevertheless I will carry on supporting this as I am committed to this and the physical code club.
In the mean time, please, check out this blog on Monday, for the Code Club Raspberry Pi activities. If you Follow @PaigntonLibrary they will be re-tweeting. You can also follow me on @zleap2018
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You can find me on the fediverse by searching for @zleap@qoto.org">@zleap@qoto.org
Some of the reasoning for this action is that I keep reading about taking control and deleting things that are no longer relevant.
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