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On secondment as Depute Headteacher to Musselburgh Grammar School for sessions 2006 - 2009. Find out what life is like at the end of the bottom corridor as I share my thoughts on School Leadership, SQH, Outdoor Education and New Technologies for Teaching and Learning.

Do Learning Styles Exist?
Interesting little video link from Tony suggesting an alternative viewpoint to why teachers shouldn’t worry that much about the learning styles of their students. In the video Professor Daniel Willingham presents an interesting argument. YouTube video embedded below:
Two Great Books by Scott McCloud
As I continue my research into Graphic Novels and using Comics in Education I have just finished Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art and am really looking forward to its sequel Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets. Both Books are by Scott McCloud...
Shifthappens: Did You Know? (The Scottish Version)
Andrew Brown has been working on a Scottish version of the Shifthappens: Did You Know? Presentation. It’s great to have a version with more Scottish examples. I’ve embedded the presentation below as a slideshare file. Did Ye KenView SlideShare presentation...
Google Chrome: a new web browser
Google has launched its own web browser. Google Chrome was released in Beta form in more than 100 countries today. More information is available here on the Google Blog and there is also a nice little cartoon showing what Google...
Teachmeet 2008 @ The Scottish Learning Festival
Ewan alerted me to the fact that things have started to get moving over on the TeachMeet08 site. Anyone is invited to add their name to the list of attendees for an evening of sharing exciting and innovating ideas from...
Electing a US President in Plain English
I don’t know about you but the whole US election system just confuses me! Luckily, the boys at Commoncraft have created a nice little video to help me understand it better. If you’re a Modern Studies teacher you might find...
The use of Games Based Technologies in Support for Learning @ MGS
This year at Musselburgh Grammar School I’m trialling some Games Based Learning Resources with the schools Support for Learning (SfL) Department. There are a few reasons for this and one of them is that most SfL classes a bit smaller...
S6 Leadership Weekend: Dalguise 2008
I’m just back from a great weekend at Dalguise with the S6. We started this leadership / teambuilding weekend last year and this year everything just continued to get better. The PGL Staff were fantastic and our students really flourished...
Comic Life now in East Lothian Schools!
I was about to ring up out IT Department this morning to order a 250 site licence of Comic Life for the PC. I’ve written about this before and we are keen to get using Comic Life with classes to...
Hiking Alaska’s Wrangell- St. Elias National Park and Preserve
The last time I was in the Alaska Wrangell’s was 1997. Even though I was part of a climbing expedition I was dropped off by bush plane by myself about a 45 minute flight from anywhere. The Wrangell- St. Elias...

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