Posted in GLOW, ICT, Ideas, LTS, Learning and teaching on Aug 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
I was chatting recently with a former colleague about “A Curriculum for Excellence“. He has responsibility for developing learning and teaching at his school and was telling me that they are going to give every pupil comprehensive course support materials for each of their certificated subjects - once the course has been completed. The teachers didn’t want [...]
Posted in CPD, ICT, Parental Involvement, Partnerships on Jun 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
East Lothian Council, in partnership with Lothian and Borders Police, will be hosting a series of Internet safety and responsible use training sessions for parents with pupils in P5 - S6 across the county. This is in response to growing concerns, expressed by individual parents and parent councils, about how to make sure young people [...]
Posted in Curriculum for Excellence, ICT, Ideas, Partnerships, Vocational on Jun 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
I met this morning with Chris Mullender, a games developer from Dunbar, Ollie Bray, Graham Sales (a student of gaming technology at Abertay University) and David Gilmour to explore how we might make better use of gaming technology within the East Lothian education system.
I was intrigued to find out that schools would be much better making use of [...]
Posted in Assessment, Culture change, Curriculum for Excellence, ICT, Ideas on May 31st, 2008 3 Comments »
I recently bumped into a former colleague and briefly chatted about “A Curriculum for Excellence”. My friend has responsibility for developing learning and teaching at his school and was telling me that the school are going to give every pupil comprehensive course support materials for each of their certificated subjects - once the course has been completed. [...]
Posted in ICT, Words on Nov 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
I got caught out tonight by my youngest son (17) who asked me if he could have some of his friends round on Friday night for a “wee night”. I thought I was being funny when I asked why he wasn’t having a “big night in?”.
He looked at me with pity as only 17 year old [...]
Posted in ICT on Nov 8th, 2007 9 Comments »
Apologies if you can’t see this ASUS PC 701 YouTube at school - (we must do something about that)
- see John Connell for more info’
Perhaps we are getting closer to MiWiFi?
Posted in ICT, Ideas, Inclusion, Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2007 6 Comments »
As ever Ewan MacIntosh is worth watching.
He’s currently working in New Zealand - (sshh - don’t mention the rugby) - but still found the time to put up a post about Berkley University placing lectures on YouTube
It’s just one small step from here to think about putting up entire courses on the web for East Lothian [...]
Posted in CPD, Edubuzz, ICT, Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
Teachmeet is the ’unconference’ approach to professional development in East Lothian. TeachMeet, involves short, sharp demonstrations of one technology, showing its whole potential in no more than seven minutes. The team then reverse engineer what went into the product of the teachers’ learning, leaving plenty of time to play and discover new skills. Crucially, they leave time at the end [...]
Posted in Admin, Communication, ICT, Ideas, Management, personal on Oct 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Spot the likeness?
Actually I’m talking about a skill I’ve developed over the last few years which probably saves my life.
I’m referring to the ability to dictate correspondence. I was out of the office all day yesterday and then had a meeting from 5.00-6.00, followed by a parents’ event at a primary school.
When I rolled into [...]
Posted in Blogging, Communication, Community Learning, Culture change, ICT, Ideas, Learning Logs, Planning, Social media on May 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
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 [...]