http://www.steeg.co.uk Torben Steeg Consultancy and Research News Feed en-us Copyright 2004, TSCR editor@steeg.co.uk webmaster@steeg.co.uk http://130.88.82.232/torben/images/tscr.gif http://www.steeg.co.uk/ 88 31 http://www.steeg.co.uk/blog.php?id=102 It will only take you a second to spot that there has been no activity on this site since the Summer of 2008; that's when I got a job as Head of Service at Bolton Science & Technology Centre (BSTC) - a job that has, until recently, kept me from the delights of blogging.During this time I have continued to run, with David Taylor, a Digital D&T Support Centre (the new form of the old ECT hubs) from BSTC and recently we have also been working very closely with Paul Spencer and the Support Centre at Edge Hill University.To support this work we have jointly set up the Digital D&T NW network; this is now where you will find news of courses we are running, forums to discuss aspects of Digital D&T in schools and to seek support, and so forth. It is also here that, when I can, I will blog. Please do come and join the network and get involved.I'm not going to kill this site - employment in a Local Authority doesn't seem all that secure in the current financial climate - whoever ends up as PM.... - so I may need it again one day 8-) http://www.steeg.co.uk/blog.php?id=103 Ning has started charging for sites and, worse in some ways, removed some of the features we use on the Digital &T NW site (particularly Events) to a high price bracket. I've tried a few alternatives in discussion with the other group administrators and we've decided that Grouply provides at least as good a range of features - so I've migrated the site.As the new term starts I hope the new site will prove to be as active as the old one. http://www.steeg.co.uk/blog.php?id=101 Firstly, Cheryl, John's wife, has asked me to add a response from her and her family to all the tributes that people have sent me; I've added this to the start of the page of tributes to John. Secondly, quite a few people have asked me about the possibility of making donations in remembrance of John. Cheryl has suggested that, as John was an active supporter of Oxfam, including doing work in schools for them, that a donation to Oxfam would be appropriate. You can do this any way you wish (for example through a local shop) but there are various ways to donate via the Oxfam website, including 'in memory'. http://www.steeg.co.uk/blog.php?id=100 There will be a remembrance service for John on 11th July at 1200. This will take place in Trinity Methodist Church, Trinity Rd, Sale, Cheshire, M33 3ED. This will be led by a minister who has been a close friend of John and Cheryl's since they were students. John's funeral in Canada was last Thursday and he was cremated yesterday; Cheryl will be bringing his ashes back to England and will, in due course, scatter them in the Lake District. A number people have asked me about charitable donations; John did a lot of work for Oxfam, including work in schools, and Cheryl feels he would want any donations to go to Oxfam; she is going to find out about a memorial fund for John and details will be announced at the memorial service and I'll post them here. John also has a Facebook site.... http://www.steeg.co.uk/blog.php?id=99 I have received many moving emails from those who knew John since I posted and mailed colleagues in the D&T community yesterday about his death. I've collated these here, partly so that I can let Cheryl know what John meant to so many people without burdening her with a pile of emails and partly as a form of a tribute to him. Please let me know if you would prefer your comments not to be recorded in this way - or wish to add to or amend them.