More Twitter wisdom from my network:

@shirlpj: new vle in develepment for our centres - my advice is get people as involved as you can from the day 1- then more likely to use.

@infoseccynic: a few years old http://tiny.cc/qDCoD but talks about technophobic teachers. Not too different to converting anyone generally

@dajbelshaw:  Focus on what learners want (personalise?), train staff to deliver it. Involve parents. Give the VLE a ‘community’ feel.

@didactylos: needs absoulte support from Senior Policy - bets is when the school makes a commitment e.g. all Year 7 work will be on the VLE, show how 24/7 access works by stats about student accessing out of hours, celebrate any success, get students involved in work. Don’t underestimate level of training needs, get team of ‘experts’ helping the others informally and formally. Show good practice from elsewhere.

@gbrown057 find ways of demonstrating huge advantages rather than threats.

@celinelatrine establish forum for pupils to feedback on VLE, what works and what doesn’t- use this info to inform its direction.

@dawnhollybone: involve all to make it a true community, person pages open it up train all those involved

@gbrown057: make sure all participants feel acknowledged, start off in a non-threatening way.

@4goggas: Work with good techie to get structure *right* use templates for staff ease and hold students back until there’s enough content. People might disagree with me on my last point re VLE’s - but we believe children get bored and disillusioned quickly & easily.

@dajbelshaw: Why not get students (esp. 6th form if you have them) in to help generate content?

@louis_educator: get the students to have significant ownership?

@barton1875: Make it easy to use. Make me want to use it. Training and more training.

@markbezza: Start small with essential functions. Add bells & whistles slowly as users get used to embedding the VLE into their teaching