About the team

Elizabeth Cowan Elizabeth’s specialist subject is the use of ICT tools to improve accessibility of the school curriculum for students with support needs. She works across East Lothian, helping classroom teachers and support staff match the right ICT tools to various support needs. Her blog is at http://edubuzz.org/blogs/ecowan.

Karen Robertson Karen is East Lothian’s education ICT curriculum manager, and manages the team’s strategic ICT developments and projects to maximise educational benefits. Karen’s role also includes supporting in-school educational ICT developments and running CPD courses on various ICT topics. Her blog is at http://www.bloggingit.net.

Ewan McIntosh Ewan is a new technologies research practitioner with Learning and Teaching Scotland. As well as researching technologies, you’ll find Ewan running CPD courses on social software, supporting teachers and promoting knowledge sharing between education authorities. Find out more at his blog, http://edu.blogs.com.

David Gilmour David works on development and support of Exc-el, including tailoring the web services to maximise educational benefits, supporting staff and running CPD courses on new technologies. His blog is at http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david.

Emma Griffiths Emma is a teacher at Stoneyhill Primary School who is also a member of the Microsoft Innovative Teachers Program. Her role is to support innovative use of ICT in teaching in East Lothian. There’s a summary post about her role on the Exc-el site, and more details on Emma’s page of the Extreme Learning wiki.

The team is based in John Muir House, Haddington and has a one-hour team meeting most Friday mornings.