Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2007 16 Comments »
I was speaking to someone today who had spoken to a colleague who had declared that they had never read my blog and certainly had no intention of doing so.
It’s interesting the response that some people are having to the blogging phenomenon. I think a key factor which is influencing some people is that blogging is [...]
Posted in Blogging, Exc-el blogs on Jan 21st, 2007 6 Comments »
I received these posts from Hilary Holt - the message says everything - Over to you David
Subject:
information please!
Date:
Sat 20/1/07 6:47 PM
From:
“Hilary Holt”
To:
dledingham@eastlothian.gov.uk
I read a reference on your blog that the East lothian site had information by Maureen Grainger and Claire Sime of Educational Psychology Service summarising educational theories.
I have looked at the site but [...]
Posted in Blogging, Communication, Parental Involvement on Jan 18th, 2007 9 Comments »
I’ve been getting some very interesting comments from a “Parent with Standards”. These comments have have been relating to bullying, bullying and good behaviour.
I agree with many of the points made in these comments but I’m intrigued by a couple of things to do with the choice of pseudonym.
Are you suggesting that there are very few parents [...]
Posted in Blogging, Exc-el blogs, Planning on Jan 13th, 2007 10 Comments »
I’ve spoken to a few people this week who expressed some concern about the recent Exc-el board meeting.
The problem centres on the meaning people ascribe to a “Board”. Unintentionally such a term smacks of a hierarchical and controlling body. On reflection I can see why people see such a thing as being contrary to the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Communication, HMIe, Ideas, Performance Indicators, Using data on Jan 11th, 2007 3 Comments »
We have been trying to use this blogging platform to fulfil our statutory obligation to complete our Standards and Quality Report on education in East Lothian.
The reasons for exploring this format were threefold: improve accessibility to the report; cut down on environmental impact of producing a ‘glossy’ report; enable people to interact with the report.
However, another reason has [...]
Posted in Blogging, Communication, Exc-el blogs, Partnerships on Dec 9th, 2006 2 Comments »
I was captivated by the recent BBC series which tracked some our North Sea fishing fleet who fish out of Peterhead. Not least because the Doric was the dialect of my father and his family.
Since then I’ve been keeping up with Captain Jimmy Buchan’s blog. As an outsider I now have some understanding of the [...]
Posted in Blogging on Dec 2nd, 2006 5 Comments »
I received a query from Arthur Male recently asking:
“How do you contrast the conversations you have on Don’s Learning Blog with the conversations you have person to person when you are engaged in understanding educational experience?”
To which I replied:
“I may be misleading myself, and perhaps it might be best to check with others, but I [...]
Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2006 12 Comments »
Because they don’t have friends! - so said Freda Ross Head Teacher of Pencaitland Primary School on Tuesday when I pointed her towards my blog entry on SELS. The disciplinary papers are in the post!
But does she have a point ?- the majority of exc-el bloggers are male. Why are women more reticent to blog [...]
Posted in Accountability, Blogging, Culture change, Head Teachers on Nov 8th, 2006 2 Comments »
We hold our first Head Teacher Conference of the session tomorrow.
I’ll be presenting first thing on accountability and how we might develop our self and school evaluation process.
The paper and powerpoint are available for comment.
What is of some significance here is that the paper was generated completely as a series of blogs taking into account [...]
Posted in Accountability, Blogging, Social media on Nov 5th, 2006 5 Comments »
I came across this interesting Bloggers Code of Ethics from The Online News Association
I’ve tweaked it a bit but it seems to capture almost everything for me, particularly as it sets out integrity as the cornerstone of credibility. It suggests that “Bloggers who adopt this code of principles and these standards of practice not only practice ethical publishing, but convey [...]
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