Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2006 No Comments »
We always like to know who's talking about Exc-el. And what they're saying, of course. But we haven't got
Trackback to help here - at least so far - so we'd need to trawl a number of blog search engines to find out. And that's a pain.
Talk Digger (
www.talkdigger.com ) makes this easy. Give it a [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Last year
Demos and the Scottish Book Trust published
Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation . You can download the introductory chapter
here . I was struck by the parallels between their description of a newly emerging hopeful Scotland and the Exc-el approach. See what you think - here are their definitions, from the introductory [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Gordon McKinlay, an education adviser in Inverclyde, has been "
working on looking at what other education authorities are doing with blogging in education ". He names East Lothian in his
personal weblog as one of three notable examples.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Chris Day found that the (eZpublish)
Online Editor doesn't work with the Safari browser on his iBook. I've since heard from
Karen Robertson that she has successfully used it with the excellent
Firefox browser on an iBook, but this isn't installed as standard in East Lothian. It won't be a problem for student blogs [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Other education authorities, from Borders to East Renfrewshire, are now taking an interest in Exc-el. We're also seeing interest from organisations such as Learning and Teaching Scotland and HMI, so have decided it's about times we explained what we're up to.
The most important thing people want to know is whether it's [...]
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