9.
Details
of the BIVLC Team
BIVLC
Course Co-ordinator - Estelle
Ellwood
Estelle was employed by BT as a marketing manager for almost
20
years. She is a Chartered Marketer. She then trained as a teacher and
taught for the Chartered Institute of Marketing at City College
Manchester for 3 years. She then became Course Co-ordinator for a year
before her move to Cromarty in 2003.

Estelle is responsible for management of the BIVLC. She aims to
provide, develop and co-ordinate learning opportunities to meet the
needs of the local communities whilst working with other learning
providers. She is also responsible for the promotion of all
activities carried out by the BIVLC.
If you have any enquiries about the BIVLC or course availability, you
can contact Estelle on
Telephone 0701 741 7754 or by email
Here at the Black Isle Virtual Learning Centre we now have 1 very
experienced tutor, Caroline Elliott, who runs the majority of
our
courses.
We are also supported by a couple of guest tutors who come and teach
for us on an ad hoc basis.
BIVLC
ICT Tutor - Caroline Elliott
Caroline has excellent I.T. skills which were developed over the years
she spent managing the IT based activities at Coopers Technology
College in Kent. She has a wide range of certificates in ICT subjects
and is an experienced ICT college lecturer and trainer.

Caroline has been with the BIVLC since it first opened in 2003.
Caroline
teaches all
the Computing for Absolute Beginners courses and
all the Microsoft courses such as Word, Excel and Publisher.
She
has also
developed some new courses such as "Photo-Editing and Scanning" which
uses Microsoft Photo-Editor and the follow on from that course
"Graphics
within Word".
If you have a query about the content of one of Caroline's courses, you
can email
her.
BIVLC
ICT Tutor - Rick Ladds
Rick Ladds joined the BIVLC team in Spring 2007.

Rick recently moved to Culbokie from Cambridgeshire where he had been an
Analyst/Programmer for the MOD Civil Service and prior to that in a full career as
an Engineer with the RAF. Rick is experienced in all aspects of
computing from Programming to Project Management for both Administrative and
Real-Time Systems. He is a Chartered Engineer as well as a Chartered IT
Professional and a member of the British Computing Society.
Primarily Rick will be responsible for running the Outreach Courses.
(Courses held in other locations across the Black Isle)
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