End of the first day!!!

It's been a long and intense day - especially since I've been up so long but I feel like I've been opened up to a whole new way of thinking! Of course I knew about Ping Pong, and I'd used it on a course before - 2or 3 years ago but since then I haven't looked at it, haven't needed to really. But today has really opened my eyes to what the program can do and what I should be doing with the program. I never realised that there were so many functions hidden away - not that I had taken time before to really look. Time I suppose and lack of need but times are changing, courses are changing and so are the students, and this will be a new way to approach our outreach to the students.
At the moment I can think of a few new ways to incorporate this into my teaching plans - especially the postgraduate courses that I'm responsible for - it will make life a lot easier to organise the courses and teaching materials (which makes me wonder why  haven't used this before - nobody to blame but me but we live and learn and have courses like this). If I'm running a postgraduate course then  can make use of all the functions - literature resources, organise group work, discussion forums but I stumble more over how I can use this for my undergraduate teaching. Well I have ideas and new thoughts of how I could use it but my concern is how to get the course leaders and teachers who are a little more traditional and dare I say it set in their ways to try and incorporate these new ideas and approaches. Well that will be my task - they say Rome was never built in a day so it will be small steps to stimulate discussion and to encourage the use of this system. Talking to other course participants, I feel that we are trailing very much behind some of the other faculties in using IT in their teaching programs - keeping to tried and tested (but not necessarily better) teaching methods - I hope I can help to change this.