P3 bloggers at Haddington Infant School are now each being provided with a Blogroll containing links to all 90-odd P3 student blogs across the 4 P3 classes. You can see an example here at Andrew’s blog.
Peer feedback and peer assessment are powerful formative assessment practices, and Robert Whiteside is doing this to enable these children [...]

[ February 22, 2007; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Location: Prestonpans Education Centre

Time: Thursday 22nd February 2007, 4.00 to 5.30pm

Includes:

adding audio and video to Posts and Pages
using Plug-ins such as

Event Calendar
Democracy Poll
Sidebar Widgets

managing Sidebar contents
Using different presentation Themes

If you’ve an Exc-el / eduBuzz blog, you can now embed PowerPoint slideshows like this from SlideShare into Posts and Pages, thanks to a Plug-in from Koen.
Here’s how to do it. First, activate the SlideShare Plug-in from the Plug-in menu. Next,
For embedding a slideshare object in a blog post enter
[#slideshare id doc#]
into the text area. [...]

[ February 15, 2007; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] This is a course about how we can make a school web site much more than just a static notice board. It will show how to use new web tools to provide a dynamic, interactive window into the life of the school.

Pencaitland Primary blog shows the sort of thing that can be done.

Details: ECS371 Making [...]

[ February 2, 2007; 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Course: Introduction to Internet (ELFT)

Location: Prestonpans Education Centre

[ January 26, 2007; 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Description: ECS347 Word Processing 1 (Early Learning Forward Thinking)

Location: Prestonpans Education Centre

We are delighted to officially announce that we have managed to recruit 4 new ICT support officers to provide technical support to schools.  Three of the officers have just started and one more will join them by mid February.  The new officers who will join Stephen McNeill and Katie Walls are Chris Brown, Derek Wilson, Terry [...]

Around 200 teachers took part in a survey just before Christmas to provide feedback to the IT department and Education about the level of technical support currently provided to schools.  The Survey was conducted nationally by SOCITM (Society of IT Managers) and this time round involved 8 Local Authorities from Scotland and England.
A full report [...]

On 12th and 13th January, I spent a couple of days at the BETT conference in Olympia, London. The conference is the largest Education technology conference in the UK and is big!  I remember walking into the main hall several years ago - the first time I visited and thought - how do I manage [...]

These have been modified with scripts from Automattic’s WordPress Widget pack. You can now activate and use Sidebar Widgets on both themes. Activate them by going to the Plugins menu. Then go to Presentation / Sidebar Widgets to drag the ones you want from the widgets toolbox.