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More from our Glow mentor day on Friday.
Robert lost his specs when snowboarding but was happy with the replacements provided by Tess. These ‘Glow’ specs are modelled by Dave ‘Glowboy’ Rawson …they may just catch on.
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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 [...]

We are currently developing a Learning Management
System in East Lothian.  The hope is that it will be a system we can
use to track and evidence our CPD activity, link training to identified
need through ED&R, search and identify people with knowledge and
expertise within our authority and monitor the impact of training in
the workplace.
The question of measuring [...]

I attended  the East Lothian Celebrating Success event today.  The event takes place every 2 years and gives schools the opportunity to show the excellent work they have been doing and share ideas. The theme this year was A Curriculum for Excellence and the schools were to demonstrate something for at least one of the [...]

We had a really productive team meeting today to consider how we approach schools and work strategically within the authority to affect change and to support and inspire creative learning opportunities using technology - no pressure then!  We had the idea at our last away day of a roadshow we could take to schools which [...]

We held a meeting of East Lothian Glow Mentors yesterday - an away day at the Gothenburg Hotel - Prestonpans.  The aim of the meeting was to begin to address how we move Glow and other network tools forward in our schools.  We see this as a lever to affect change across the authority - [...]

I have blogged about the Learning Hubs initiative before.  Yesterday, I attended the first Project board meeting to move the project forward in East Lothian and our partner authorities.  Nigel Douglas provided us with an overview of the project and where we are to date.  He has been working to develop a sustainable model for [...]

This is my ‘better late than never’ blog about SETT (or the Scottish Learning Festival as it has been rebadged)! My impressions of the conference was that it was very professional and well organised.  In the past it has been - as I understand it- the little brother of BETT, but I feel the seminars [...]

We had the chance to meet with our Glow mentors today at the Scottish Learning Festival (SETT)  Having had the chance to ‘absorb’ the atmosphere and learn of the progress made with Glow, it was interesting to hear the views of the mentors in East Lothian and begin to explore the way forward.  As though [...]