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 [...]
This morning I was out at Campie Primary School visiting Alicia MacFarlane and her P6-7 class. This morning I was there to help the pupils use the application CrazyTalk. As discussed earlier this year the pupils would use CrazyTalk to tell a story that they had written in Chapters. They are working in groups for [...]
Over the last few months Karen Robertson has been developing a Responsible Use Policy for East Lothian. This can now be found on our Edubuzz Wiki. As this is the first draft of this policy, we would very much welcome any feedback either via comment or email.
Louise Jones is a friend and colleague of mine. She is the Health & Wellbeing Subject Supporter for The Highland Council, Education Culture and Sport Service and NHS Highland, Department of Public Health.
I first met Louise at Teachmeet 2007 in Glasgow after the Scottish Learning Festival. Lousie has recently started her own Weblog where she [...]
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.
This afternoon David Gilmour and I hosted a TeachMeet Road Show on Online Publishing at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. David led the session whilst I hopped around assisting the staff.
Campie are starting to develop their school website using our EduBuzz Wordpress platform- and so far so good! The aim of today was to give [...]
The final highlight of BETT was the TeachMeet on the Friday night. In Scotland we have hosted a number of these un-conferences. These were ably coordinated by Ewan McIntosh. The idea is that anyone can share cool ideas they have or great ideas they’ve trialled in their classrooms. All they needed to do was to [...]
Mark Pentleton is a colleague of mine. In addition to being a ‘Curriculum for Excellence Officer’ for East Ayrshire Council. Mark also runs his own company, Radio Lingua-
‘Radio Lingua Ltd provides educational content for language learners across the world and is the company behind some of the world’s most popular educational podcasts including Coffee Break Spanish [...]
