Blogging IT

Stenton primary are currently podcasting wonderful descriptions of monsters for children at Athelstaneford to draw. View their post here. Not to be outdone, I thought i would have a go. Stenton Primary - can you guess who’s monster I have drawn?

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We have recently decided to review the ‘various’ Acceptable Use Policies that have grown in our authority in the last few years as technology and the Internet have developed. We have tried to streamline the paperwork as much as possible, to make it accessible and relevant whilst still stiking that balance to ensure [...]

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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I met with the PTs of the English departments this afternoon to begin to look at the technology requirements of the modern English classroom. The task was to look at current provision, consider current curricular ‘requirements’ for technology and to look towards future developments and to consider the implications. We recently [...]

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Good news, the first schools have been signed over to East Lothian from BT as we strive to roll out our upgraded Wide Area Network across the Authority. North Berwick High are to be first with the switch over to be attempted this Friday and tested over the weekend. Gullane [...]

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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. [...]

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 [...]

We have just had received new dates for work to commence (again) to upgrade our Wide Area Network.  Five out of our Six Secondary schools have had dates confirmed.  Currently, our network is creaking and I share everyones frustrations with the hold ups we are experiencing.  Here’s hoping this is the sign that things are [...]