http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian A hopefully entertaining and educational insight into the life of a Science Technician at Musselburgh Grammar School Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:21:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my last post I wrote about a job advertised by Midlothian Council. My hunch was that for whatever reason a mistake had been made when advertising the post. At the time I had emailed their personnel department to confirm all the details were right and was given the assurance that ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/08/24/getting-to-the-bottom-of-it/ Flicking as I do through the jobs pages of the local councils. I found an advert for a senior technician at Lasswade High School. Quite amazing really. Over £21k for 30hrs a week and sessional to boot. With no mention of the salary being pro rata that would work out at ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/08/02/should-we-all-be-working-for-midlothian-2/ I am now on holiday. The only reason I make that statement is that even after 20yrs in education I still have to explain to people that as an local government employee of East Lothian Council I do not get the same holidays as the teaching staff. So what goes on ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/07/17/holiday-time/ The upgrading of our Schools Wide Area Network was completed today. Our computers were down for most of the day which allowed our IT department to weave whatever magic they needed to do to increase the bandwidth and thus the speed of the connection here. It all seems to have gone swimmingly ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/06/27/swan/ At Knox Academy last night there was an informal gathering of staff who were connected with the GLOW project in East Lothian. We were all there to get a briefing from GLOW mentors extraordinaire Tess Watson and Glowboy Dave Rawson as last week they attended a special training event for staff ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/06/13/learning-and-glowing/ Just before I left work last night I noticed that I had received my log on name and password for the latest phase of the GLOW trial. I logged on and immediately started exploring. I cant put my finger on whats different about it but was much easier to navigate around t ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/06/12/ready-to-glow/ I headed over to Fife yesterday to attend one of the quarterly meetings of the Scottish Technicians Advisory Group (STAG). Technicians from all over Scotland meet at the Scottish Schools Equipment Research Centre (SSERC) quarterly to discuss a variety of topics including Health and Safety, CPD opportunities for technicians and ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/06/07/over-to-fife/ Its been all go for a couple of weeks as the school prepares for the new term which started at the beginning of the week. Pupils and staff alike are adjusting to the new timetables as the cycle of learning starts again. P7's from our primaries are also visiting this week for ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/06/05/all-go/ Earlier this week the science department took delivery of 24 tablet PC's as part of a project to evaluate their use within a school science department. Our most excellent IT staff loaded them with the required software and they were then split up into groups of eight and distributed around the ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/05/17/science-keep-taking-the-tablets/ Along with approximately 3500 other East Lothian employees I received a letter at the weekend detailing the anticipated new grade for my job, based on the predicted outcome of my job evaluation. My salary is predicted to rise by 19p an hour in the first instance and then gradually increase over ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/brian/2007/05/16/equal-pay-how-ironic/