Comments for Schooloscope http://hello.schooloscope.com Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Shutters Down by Matt W http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-45 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:25:40 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-45 Mr Headteacher, thanks for your feedback. I’m extremely sorry to hear your concerns, and can only reiterate what I’ve said previously. This is a visualisation of data collated from a variety of official sources, including – but not limited – to Ofsted.

You are absolutely correct, to get the best possible feel for a school, visit it, engage with the staff and children. The intention of Schooloscope has never been to replace face to face communication, but to begin a conversation.

We value all the feedback we’ve received from this project, and hopefully your feedback here will help others intending to develop such an idea further.

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by Mr Headteacher http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-44 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:53:28 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-44 Schoolscope offered sweeping statements, inaccurate judgements and over-simplified information about schools. Many schools were concerned about the misleading information, and the ‘pseudo-analysis’ on this site, much of which was counched in negative terms. A waste of money, and as a primary Headteacher myself I’m glad to see the end of this site. If you want to find out about a school, go and visit it…talk to the Head, talk with the staff and children, and get a feel for the place.

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by Matt W http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-40 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:27:16 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-40 Thanks for your kind words and offers of help, all!

Schooloscope was commercially funded, so my focus right now is to find a commercial future for the site — either by sponsorship or acquisition. It’s important that I look after the interests of investors, in order to encourage more speculative investment in public service websites in the future. I’m going to give those routes best efforts before looking at other options.

Ben, Katy — thanks both for the interest! Could you drop me a line by email with thoughts on how this could work? Like, if I secured sponsorship, would you look after things day-to-day… or otherwise? My details are here: http://berglondon.com/studio/matt-webb/

Matt

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by Katy http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-39 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:57:43 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-39 Hi, We’re a small, open data-focused development firm, and we’d love to keep the service alive. We’ve recently taken on the running of PublicWhip to prevent its closure and would be happy to do the same, or similar, for Schooloscope.

Kindest regards
Katy @ Raraunga

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by Elizabeth Green http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-38 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:08:24 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-38 Your site was an inspiration. I’m really sad to read this. I think you’re right that it was a success as a demonstration project for the need for better school data communication. Do you have more information proving the success? I’d love to talk offline about user response/traffic data/etc.

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by Paul Codd http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-37 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:44:12 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-37 Could it be set free, let loose as it were as an open source project? Perhaps you guys might have enough spare capacity to stay involved in a management capacity, or just providing leadership or advice – or turn it over to the unwashed masses to do their own mashups? That way it could maybe even expand and eventually handle data from other countries!

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by TriforceOfNope http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-36 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:44:17 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-36 aw man this is a terrible news, I am truly shocked ! :’(

I just learned about it, how powerful/wonderful/useful it was, and now I read no one came to pick it up !

Not even the gov, despite the obvious excellent public service it would be (transforming a giant pile of papers into useful information), damn it, at least you showed everyone it could be done – will you write some advises for anyone wishing to make a similar project ? nothing would be lost that way :)

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How I ended up here (despite being french and not a parent) :

first the RPS Sunday Papers
=> http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/07/the-sunday-papers-181/#more-68691

which leaded me to
=> http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/08/03/the-robot-readable-world/

=> then to
http://interconnected.org/home/2011/01/28/furby_and_the_fourth_kingdom

=> then back on berglondon (loop !)
http://berglondon.com/blog/2009/11/23/chernoff-schools/

(and now I have 16 pages, each with at least 2 to 3 pages of extremely-interesting text… damn you Internet ! damn you multiple hyper-linking ! When am I supposed to play video games ?! :P )

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by Ben http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-35 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:01:00 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-35 How would I go about taking over the website?

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by Fraser Pearce (@_frazor_) http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-34 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:38:29 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-34 This saddens me greatly, as it was such an awesome tool for a new parent such as myself who has moved to a new area and doesn’t know the schools well as I didn’t grow up in the place that I now live.

Have you approached anyone at Alphagov about taking it on?

]]> Comment on Shutters Down by Lee Phillipson http://hello.schooloscope.com/2011/08/03/shutters-down/#comment-33 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:00:10 +0000 http://hello.schooloscope.com/?p=485#comment-33 I find schoolscope to be a fantastic resource, very helpful for my family when choosing a new home in an unfamiliar area. It is such a shame that it can not continue, thanks to your team for the work and time to create and maintain the site.

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