Blogging IT

I attended the latest meeting for Glow key contacts today. We were updated on various outcomes of the pilots that many authorities, including East Lothian, have been involved in. One of the interesting presentations was from Anna Rossvoll from Aberdeenshire. She has been involved in the latest phase, like ourselves, but has [...]

I spent this morning visiting two of our classrooms in East Lothian with Phil Denning, our area inspector. Having met with Don and being a keen observer of East Lothian developments, he was keen to see how we use technology in Learning and Teaching, particularly with regard to the use of social software [...]

I visited Haddington Infant school today to look at the progress made by our little bloggers group - P3 pupils using the blogging platform for formative assessment. There were a few technical difficulties but I managed to see the second group in action. The class teacher, Robert, was ever positive but I could tell [...]

Photo courtesy of Ewan
I wrote a post a few weeks ago describing the plans for an Enterprise and IT project where pupils devised and participated in a campaign to improve their locality in some way. Technology was used to support the publication of the campaigns - podcasting and film being particularly relevant.

Apologies for a late post. On Thursday I went to visit Derek Robertson and the Consolarium at Learning and Teaching Scotland in Dundee. For those who have not been yet, the grounds are beautiful and it was a sunny early summer day, so the drive up was also scenic. The building, however, [...]