Posted in Blogging, Learning Logs, Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2008 3 Comments »
The moral of the fable of the Blind Men and the Elephant is that each of the blind men has a different perspective on what an elephant is - depending on which part of the elephant they are touching.
In many ways the various interest groups involved in education can behave as “blind men” as they tend to only [...]
Posted in Conferences, Learning Logs, School visits on Jul 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
I was invited to speak at the 2008 Scottish International Summer School on School Leadership being held in Edinburgh this week at the prestigious Surgeon’s Hall.
The event follows the Harvard model - which I attended last year.
Today’s programme focused upon Leadership for Learning. I was one of a panel of four who presented our own personal insights [...]
Posted in Brain, Conferences, Curriculum for Excellence, Ideas, Learning Logs, Learning and teaching, Personal Lessons on May 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
I felt enormously privileged today to be able to attend the Tapestry Conference in Glasgow to hear Jerome Bruner give a spellbinding performance.
For a man born in 1915 (93 years ago) he displayed humour, warmth and humility which would bely most men half his age - quite aside from his iconic intellect. In what was a [...]
Posted in Blogging, Communication, Community Learning, Consultation, Corporate, Edubuzz, Elected Members, Ideas, Learning Logs, Public Services, Social media on Apr 21st, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
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 Curriculum for Excellence, Edubuzz, Extreme learning, Ideas, Learning Logs on May 18th, 2007 4 Comments »
Our Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) met yesterday for the second session on Learning and Teaching. As I explained earlier this week we focussed upon Extreme Learning and experimented with the process and explored possible assessment models.
Reading the feedback it would appear that responses to the session are something of a curate’s egg - some people loved it and [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, ICT, Learning Logs, Strategic on Mar 19th, 2007 13 Comments »
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We had very useful Exc-el Open meeting this evening.
Look out for our forthcoming skype (or equivalent) conference - Ollie Bray will be setting this up - participants are welcome.
For me one of our most significant decisions was to move from Exc-el.org.uk to edubuzz.org during the Easter break.
I was personally fond of Exc-el as it’s been with us [...]
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 Learning Logs on Feb 9th, 2007 No Comments »
I was asked yesterday what exactly I mean by a ’learning log’.
I suppose it can be captured in a relatively simple tri-colon: “Where you’ve been; where you are; and where you’re going”
I’m not talking here of travel in any sort of geographical sense, but more about the journey which relates to our opinions, ideas and perceptions.
A [...]
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