Posted in CPD, Exc-el blogs, Leadership, Learning Logs, Personal Lessons, Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
We had a get together today at the Cosla Edinburgh offices for all of us going to the Harvard Leadership School. We have agreed to keep a “team’ learning log of our experiences.
Eight weeks today we fly out to Boston - it’s going to be great fun and tremendous learning experience - I feel very [...]
Posted in Blogging, Edubuzz, Exc-el blogs, Social media on May 14th, 2007 1 Comment »
We held an Edubuzz Open meeting this afternoon.
We made some key decisions:
Make use of the Edubuzz blog as the front page to the site as opposed to the current page (which we would aspire to in the future) - we felt the current front page did not enable people to easily understand the purpose and background to Edubuzz, [...]
Posted in Curriculum for Excellence, Exc-el blogs, Extreme learning, ICT, Learning and teaching on Mar 28th, 2007 3 Comments »
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I spent an afternoon with David Gilmour exploring possible Extreme Learning templates.
It was interesting how we went about the task with some reference to my post yesterday about the Amundsen approach, i.e. we spent a lot of time considering at “what ifs?” [...]
Posted in Exc-el blogs, Uncategorized on Mar 14th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve been contacted by a journalist from the Times Education Supplement Scotland (TESS)
She made contact as TESS are going to be doing an article on such sites as Ratemyteacher; bebo; etc websites and what education authorities are doing in response.
I tried to explain the rationale behind our aproach to Exc-el but made it clear that [...]
Posted in CPD, Exc-el blogs, Leadership, Learning Logs on Mar 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Using the wonderful wordpress platform which David Gilmour so ably manages on our behalf I’ve had a go at setting up a Learning Log for the team which will be going out to Harvard in July.
Hopefully we can populate the log with lots of useful information and give people an insight into the course and what [...]
Posted in Blogging, Community Learning, Consultation, Exc-el blogs, ICT, Social media on Feb 26th, 2007 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Blogging, Exc-el blogs, Social media on Feb 20th, 2007 4 Comments »
I’ve had a query from a teacher about the use of the web for educational purposes and the use of photographs including children.
Here’s what LTS have to say on creating and maintaining a school web site:
How safe is your website?
When creating a website the school is responsible for the care and the safety of every [...]
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 Curriculum for Excellence, Exc-el blogs, Extreme learning on Jan 21st, 2007 8 Comments »
We reconvene our Extreme Learning Group in late February.
Over the last couple of months we’ve been playing around with an on-line Extreme Learning project. Hopefully this will be completed by the time we meet but it has been useful in enabling us to try out the theory and smooth out some of the technical and [...]
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 [...]