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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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In East Lothian we are expanding our edubuzz community at an exponential rate - with the intention of creating a place where people learn from each other by opening up an interface between users and providers and between the professionals at all levels in the organisation.
So at this stage in it’s development it might be worthwhile exploring a hypothetical leadership [...]
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So often in education we focus upon the hard data - figures -statistics - numbers.
So it’s really useful sometimes just to stop and listen to people’s stories.
If you want to read an interesting story about a mother’s perspective on her child sitting his Standard Grades a year early tune into guineapigmum.
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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, [...]
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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 latest Extreme Learning meeting on Thursday.
David Gilmour and myself have been working on the idea of on-line templates for learners to use as a framework for their Extreme Learning projects.
As I’ve previously explained the template concept proved to be too restrictive for learners; technically too demanding for teachers to support; and limiting [...]
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I was delighted to receive a comment from Vince Campbell a school principal from Sydney, Australia. As readers of this blog may be aware I’m an avid follower of the curricular developments taking place in that country so it was particularly gratifying to think that we might have something to offer our colleagues in Oz.
Greetings from Sydney, Don. I [...]
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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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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 [...]
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I came across this interesting Bloggers Code of Ethics from The Online News Association
I’ve tweaked it a bit but it seems to capture almost everything for me, particularly as it sets out integrity as the cornerstone of credibility. It suggests that “Bloggers who adopt this code of principles and these standards of practice not only practice ethical publishing, but convey [...]
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