Archive for 'Event'
Guitar Hero transition goes authority wide in East Lothian
Over the past two weeks, all clusters in East Lothian have been holding Guitar Hero transition events across the authority. I attended the Dunbar cluster event today, held at East Linton Community Hall. There was a real buzz as I walked into the hall and children dressed in anything from school uniform to full rock gear [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2009 under Cluster working, Curriculum for Excellence, Enterprise, Event, Games, Schools, Software, Technology, elcouncil.
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Literacy starts young in East Lothian!
Buggy Buddy books in action
One week ago today, we held a target literacy conference in East Lothian. Literacy is a key focus for the authority and this conference was the starting point for building a coherent strategy to ensure all our children are literate. One of the key outcomes of our Service Improvement [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2008 under Communication, Culture, Curriculum for Excellence, Early Years, Event, Language, Literacy, Parents, Schools, Talking and Listening, conference, elcouncil.
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Dunbar Grammar Achievement Awards
I attended the Achievement Awards at Dunbar Grammar, an annual event to celebrate the wide range of Achievements of pupils last session. This was about Achievement in the true sense, not only were awards given for attainment in exams but for achievement in sports, music, drama, dance and out of school activities. What was really [...]
Posted: September 12th, 2007 under AiFL, Curriculum for Excellence, Event, Schools, elcouncil.
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Can you make a difference? - to be continued …
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.
Posted: June 7th, 2007 under Communication, Curriculum for Excellence, Enterprise, Event, Film, Schools, Technology, elcouncil.
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Selling TeachMeet
Q. How do you sell a new approach to developing the use of technology in Learning and Teaching to schools?
A. Take a room full of Head teachers, a small but perfectly formed curricular team and show what is possible….
Posted: March 21st, 2007 under Animation, Curriculum for Excellence, Event, Schools, Support, Weblogs, elcouncil.
Comments: 3
Glow Mentor Day
Edublogger
What a really productive day today. We had our first full day Glow mentor meeting of 2007. This meant a very early start for me to set up and a fairly frantic journey for many of the mentors through the particularly awful Edinburgh traffic. We had a fairly heavy agenda as [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2007 under Animation, Change management, Culture, Curriculum for Excellence, Enterprise, Event, Film, Glow, Schools, Technology, Web/Tech, Weblogs, elcouncil, glowscotland.
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Can YOU make a difference?
A few years ago, we held an Event in East Lothian called the East Lothian Film and Animation festival. At the time, film (thanks to the easily accessible iMovie) was beginning to really take off in schools and we wanted to promote it with as many schools as we could in our authority. In the [...]
Posted: January 30th, 2007 under Curriculum for Excellence, Enterprise, Event, Schools, Technology, elcouncil.
Comments: 5