http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01 The on-line home of East Lothian's learning community Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:59:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en East Lothian Police want you to be safe over the holidays, and would like to ask you to be sensible! Find out more about their new B-Safe B-Sensible campaign. http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/06/25/b-safe-b-sensible/ Today we've entered Edubuzz.org for the BECTA ICT Excellence Awards Support for Schools category. This category aims to reward those organisations who support school improvement with ICT, encouraging the systematic and innovative use of appropriate technologies to deliver learning and teaching, communicate with the wider school community and improve ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/05/02/edubuzz-entered-for-ict-excellence-awards/ Preston Lodge High School  students are helping engage young people in the local Longniddry Gala by creating an attractive, interactive web site based on an edubuzz weblog. The project started with an approach from Richard Walsh of the Gala Committee, who had noticed Preston Lodge's lively prestonlodge.net site, and approached the ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/05/01/preston-lodge-helps-local-gala-day-engage-young-people/  East Lothian is starting to find out what it's possible to do with Glow. Mentors met after-school again today for an informal session where Dave Rawson , ELC's Glow Implementation officer, showed some of the things that he's been doing, and some things going on in other authorities. This screenshot, for example, shows ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/04/30/glow-kicks-off-in-east-lothian/ Tranent's Sanderson's Wynd  Primary P7 have just published the podcasts created for their "What's New" project. This set of video enhanced podcasts, produced with the assistance of professional podcast and theatre staff, take podcasting in East Lothian schools to a new level. The end result is a high quality piece ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/04/28/sandersons-wynd-primarys-got-podcast-talent/ Yesterday blog number 1000 was created for a P7 student at the small rural Innerwick Primary School. It was part of a set of 7 for the P7 members of Lindy Lynn's composite P4/5/6/7 class, reflecting the increasing use of blogs to provide web publishing tools to individual students. The blogs ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/04/18/edubuzzorg-passes-the-1000-blog-milestone/ Total visits to edubuzz.org for March 08 - including everything from authors posting to search engines crawling - were up over 100% on Mar 07. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to that! http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/04/14/visits-for-march/ TODAY 14th April, 4pm, John Muir House EduBuzz Open Meetings are open to anyone with an interest in improving East Lothian education by building a networked learning community. To date we've welcomed staff, parents and students. The purpose of the meetings is to provide an informal forum where participants can ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/04/13/open-group-meeting/ The edubuzz blog system has now moved home, and the service is back. Basic tests have been successful, but if you notice anything wrong, please get in touch or leave a comment. The changeover meant taking the system down from last thing yesterday until earlier today. Apologies if that caused ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/04/12/edubuzz-blogs-move-home/ Law Primary's P7 students have been blogging from Loch Insh Watersports and Outdoor Centre this week. They've made good use of digital photos, audio and video to tell the story. Again this has proved very popular with those back home, with plenty of comments from Mums, Dads, brothers, sisters and ... http://edubuzz.org/blogs/home01/2008/04/10/law-p7-blog-from-loch-insh-over-100-comments-in-3-days/