P1-3 has been learning to use the Stop, Motion, Animation tool on the blue digital camera, which we bought with our Tesco vouchers.  For their first movie they used small world characters to create, “Accident in Happy Land.”  This required the children to systematically move the characters very slightly and take photos of each move.  [...]

Great features in an Alphasmart: -* children can start work in school, work on it at home and bring it back to school again * work is automatically saved and cannot be deleted in error * Co-Writer (installed on all Alphasmarts) aids spelling and enables the children to create a lengthy piece of work with [...]

An article about the SfL training week can now be found on the LTS website -  http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/inclusiveeducation/sharingpractice/
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East Lothian Education’s Exc-el development has gained momentum this month.
The 2-month-old WordPress-based Exc-el Edublog system is extending its reach into classroom teaching, with large numbers of students now able to contribute. Some have their own learning blogs, others are contributing posts for their class, and some are simply using comments to ask for help with [...]

There are about 3000 start-up companies sitting in Silicon Valley at the moment, each producing more or less cool, engaging web tools which could feasibly be used in the classroom. It’s great fun to play around with these but, if like most teachers your playtime is shorter than you would like, good opportunities might pass [...]

I am on secondment to the ICT in the Curriculum Team, with a remit of fostering and sharing creative practice in ICT in East Lothian schools.  A main focus will be supporting and recording the Extreme Learning projects, liaising between schools who are running pilots and so forth. Another strand is identifying and sharing other [...]

The presentation of the findings of the wireless laptop project was held on Friday 10 November.  The project goals were to find out information about the use of wireless laptops in the secondary maths classrooms of two of our High Schools - Knox Academy and Preston Lodge High School - as well as testing the [...]

Three meetings between the IT department and the School ICT co-ordinators have been arranged to support schools address some of the most common technical issues affecting them.  The meetings are as follows: 15/1/06      How to make an accurate IT Helpdesk Call/Common Printing issues19/2/06      Solving and reporting Network problems12/3/06      TBA The meetings will run from 4 to 5.30 [...]

During November some pupils in Knox Academy and Kings Meadow Primary have been taking part in the piloting of the GLOW Portal.  East Lothian is one of eight local authorities that have taken part in the pilot project.  Take at look at the following blog to find out how the pilot has progressed. http://edubuzz.org/blogs/glowboy/2006/11/29/the-primary-colour-of-glow/

You may be aware that Schoolmaster email went into liquidation some months ago. The company has now been taken over by Spider Networks. We intend to continue the service with them for pupil email accounts until the email services with Glow become available. The new service will be relaunched around Christmas and [...]