We held our Education Policy and Performance Review Panel (PPRP) meeting today in Preston Lodge HIgh School.
The panel consists of elected members who scrutinise the work of the Education and Children’s Services.
We met in the school to show elected members how ICT policy is translated into action in our schools.
We looked at two very different examples:
The first [...]
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TFT
Second time around (I wrote a long post for tonight but lost it the upload) This won’t be as long but will have the same jist)
My boys - 18 and 15 - both use
bebo to hang out with their friends a digital environmement. They share photos, music and ideas with their pals. When I asked [...]
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9.30-11.45 Out to see Willie Galbraith at Preston Lodge to finish off our chat about examination results at the school.
We focused on our authority generated figures which group results by subject for all schools and use the %of S4 as the standard comparison. Both Willie and myself agree that this gets rid of the discrepancies [...]
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Posted in CPD, ICT, School visits on Jan 30th, 2006 No Comments »
10.00-12.15 I met Stuart Hiles from Employee Development Department - East Lothian Council.
Stuart has developed a tremendous e-learning package which makes use of open source software called
moodle Stuart has been focussing on employee development using e-learning but I was very excited about the potential of the system for developing courses for pupils. Stuart is going [...]
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Posted in ICT, Planning on Dec 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Tuesday 20th December
Into the office before 7.00 to get one or two bits ready for the day - then off to Alderston house to set up projector etc.
The
event started at 9.00am. We had 15 particpants. I set the scene by reviewing the aims of the department and giving some background to the concept of
skunkworks which [...]
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Posted in ICT, Strategic on Dec 18th, 2005 No Comments »
ICT SKUNKWORKS
This coming Tuesday we are planning to hold an ICT skunkworks. A wide range of people have been invited to attend. The outcome of the meeting will be to have agreed a draft three-year strategy to enable us to make best use of ICT in East Lothian schools. Members of the group have been [...]
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Really interesting chat last night with a number of folk - must mention Jim McAlpine, Sally Fulton, Glen Taylor, Anne MacKintosh and Mike McCabe. At the bar - as you do -we explored the notion of status and the importance of status for headteachers and directorate. As I've explored elsewhere in this weblog the concept [...]
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Stirling Management Centre. left home at 7.00pm - traffic on the bypass bad as ever.
The summit has brought together representatives from almost all of our education authorities with a view to reflecting upon the strategic direction of the implementation of ICT with particular reference to SSDN Scottish schools Digital Network.
As I listened to the presentations [...]
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8.30am meeting cancelled which gave me the opportunity to meet with a few people in the department which Ive not been able to do for a few days.
10.00am 12.00 Education IT Management Group this is now the most important strategic IT group in the department which will link with the Masterclass group [...]
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Posted in ICT, Using data on Nov 7th, 2005 No Comments »
8.30-10.00am Directorate Meeting Lindsey Dick from Corporate governance came to the first part of the meeting. She is keen to implement a more flexible approach towards planning to fit in with different departments requirements whilst ensuring that there is some sort of corporate approach particularly one which makes it clear how things tie [...]
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