I have been meaning to write this post for a while- it is intended for those of you who would like to know a bit more about the benefits of using Facebook and Twitter.
For a few years now I have been using the social networking site Facebook; and I love it. It is my main [...]
This week I, along with a number of colleagues, ventured down to London to represent Learning and Teaching Scotland at the International Handheld Learning Conference 2008 . It was held at the Barbican Brewery.
Ollie Bray (East Lothian)
Ian Stuart (Argyll and Bute)
Mark Pentleton (East Ayreshire)
Derek Robertson (Learning and Teaching Scotland)
Laurie O’Donnell (Learning and Teaching Scotland)
Ewan McIntosh [...]
Today we held our NQT ICT induction day. During the course of the day each Probationer attended four separate sessions. These were as follows:
Intro To ICT in East Lothian: Karen Robertson
Online Publishing- hosted by David and I
Glow: Martin Brown and Karen-Anne McAlpine (Glow team)
Child Protection: Education and Children’s Services
David and I hosted four sessions on Edubuzz. Here [...]
If you are a reader of our EduBuzz sites, and you use an aggregator, please can you pop over to David Gilmour’s site.
Netvibes is my preferred choice, but I would welcome your thoughts on alternative aggregators.
As I mentioned I attended a number of Seminars at the BETT show. Here is my summary of the best ones (I apologise if they are not entirely accurate, but I am reading my scribbled shorthand)
Day 1.
Derek Robertson was there spreading the word about the hand held learning trials that he is currently leading throughout [...]
On Friday we ran a follow up TeachMeet for the staff at Musselburgh Grammar School.
We decided to adopt a ‘drop-in’ style for this particular session. The afternoon was spent working with the staff supporting their projects and helping them to develop their ideas. One of the main things MGS are working on is their website. [...]
On Tuesday we held a second meeting to discuss the Sony PSP trials that are due to start at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. Derek Robertson from Learning and Teaching Scotland is leading the pilot. He has written a review of the initiative here on the Learning and Teaching Scotland’s Consolarium Web-log.
In addition to Derek’s summary, here [...]
Pop over to Jim Henderson’s page.
Nothing wrong with a bit of satire!
Last night saw this month’s EduBuzz open meeting. As I mentioned on Sunday, these meetings are open to anyone who has a genuine interest in East Lothian’s EduBuzz online community. The meeting was chaired by Don Ledingham (Head of Education in East Lothian)
Here is a brief summary of my notes:
EduBuzz Front Page- The front page [...]
The platform that supports EduBuzz is called Wordpress. On Friday I ran a session on ‘Online Publishing’ at the Musselburgh Grammar School Teachmeet. One particular set of resources that I directed staff towards was the Wordpress tutorials that Andrew Brown has developed. Although they are based upon a single user platform, the majority of the footage [...]
