Archive for 'Support'
On the Mound or Rock Bottom?
I had a really enjoyable visit at St Mary’s Primary School in Haddington today. One of the classes I visited was a Primary 6/7 class with their teacher Patrick Griffen. Patrick has started an interesting system for working with the class this year, and the pupils were very keen to tell me about it. [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2007 under AiFL, Curriculum for Excellence, Enterprise, Ethos, Schools, Support, elcouncil.
Comments: 2
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
Law Primary triumphs again
Photo courtesy of Amber Louise.
I led the Digital Video TeachMeet Roadshow at Law Primary on Friday. Just as we have our Guineapig Mum in East Lothian, Law is our Guineapig school! They were the first to experience and provide feedback for our TeachMeet format in November when we delivered our Digial Images Roadshow. [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2007 under Change management, Curriculum for Excellence, Ethos, Film, Schools, Support, Technology, elcouncil.
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Learning Hubs - a sustainable solution.
My first visit to the new Edinburgh City Council building today to attend the latest project board meeting for Learning Hubs -121. Much of our discussion involved considering pilot projects amongst the four Local Authorities involved. Pilots can be important for proof of concept, but there have been several already - Maine in [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2007 under Curriculum for Excellence, Schools, Support, Technology, elcouncil, glowscotland, networks.
Comments: 7
An animator in East Lothian?
I am currently investigating a joint funding initiative to employ an animator/film-maker in East Lothian for 2 years. Lesley Smith from the Arts Service is co-ordinating the bid for this post to support the work we have been doing for many years in East Lothian through our work in schools, our input from Oscar [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2007 under Animation, Curriculum for Excellence, Enterprise, Film, Schools, Support, elcouncil.
Comments: 2
A new look for Glow mentors?
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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Posted: February 5th, 2007 under Animation, Curriculum for Excellence, Enterprise, Glow, Schools, Support, Technology, elcouncil, glowscotland.
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Coaching for Improvement
I was fortunate enough to begin my series of coaching sessions today. The aim of the 6 sessions is to have a coach support you through changes or improvements that you identify. These could be work related or personal or an attempt to get your work/life balance right. Ultimately, it is not about giving advice [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2007 under Change management, Coaching, Ethos, Support, elcouncil.
Comments: 1
Technical Support in Schools
Before the Christmas holidays I was involved with the IT department in interviewing and recruiting 4 IT support officers to provide technical support in schools. Two of the posts were to replace two offcers who had moved on and two were additional posts. It is hoped that three of the new officers will be in [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2007 under Schools, Support, Technology, elcouncil.
Comments: 2
Self-publishing guidelines
Elizabeth Cowan and I spent a good part of the day looking at self-publishing guidelines for staff and pupils in East Lothian. Like many Local Authorities, we have generic policies and guidelines in place for online communication but with the advance of technologies such blogs, wikis and podcasts in education, we identified a need to [...]
Posted: December 4th, 2006 under Curriculum for Excellence, Policy and Guidelines, Schools, Support, Weblogs, elcouncil, networks.
Comments: 2
Learning Management System
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 [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2006 under Coaching, Curriculum for Excellence, Ethos, Glow, SSDN, Schools, Software, Support, Technology, elcouncil, glowscotland.
Comments: 1