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We held a meeting last week where we explored the potential of weblogs to assist the community planning process - based on the edubuzz model -although not necessarily using the same platform.
Community Planning is a process which helps public agencies to work together with the community to plan and deliver better services which make a real [...]
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I visited Dunbar Grammar School this evening to attend the launch of the Dunbar Grammar School - School of Ambition programme.
I was hugely impressed by the programme and the plans for the coming three years.
The school has set up seven companies around the theme of the creative and performing arts:
Catering
Film and Animation
Dance
Theatre
Music
Broadcasting
Corporate Identity
As HT Paul Raffaelli stressed [...]
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One of the delights of keeping a Learning Log are the comments and suggestions you receive from other people.
And so it was when Kenneth McLaughlin left a comment on one of my recent posts.
Kenneth pointed us in the direction of Agile Software Developments:
The modern definition of agile software development evolved in the mid 1990s as part of [...]
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We held our first meeting of the Creative Arts and Education Group.
As has become a pattern for first meetings it was more of a conversation about what people thought should be the purpose of the group.
The essential focus of the group is to enable us to give some shape and consistency to the wide variety [...]
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I took a wander down the Water of Leith walkway yesterday with my camera - I should point out that I’m on holiday.
On my way back up Constitution Street towards Leith Walk I passed South Leith Parish Church.
These four words seemed to jump out at me as I walked past.
What a great way to characterise [...]
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I met Wendy McAdie this morning from Jewel and Esk Valley College.
We met to discuss how we can support adult and community learning access to our schools. Evening access can be sorted with a service level agreement between each school and the college, which is supported by a clear policy which we’ll take to the [...]
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We held an Exc-el Open Group meeting this evening.
We discussed the permission forms which parents will be asked to sign to enable their children to participate and have their images displayed on school websites.
Christine - AKA guineapigmum - suggested that it would be good to speak to school boards about blogging/use of images/learning through the [...]
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We held our first of three seminars today to explore links between Community Learning and Education. What was striking was that there are so many existing links between community education - in all its forms and our schools.
The Museum Service support many curricular projects - they even offer a mobile service such as this display [...]
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