This weekend I along with Louise, Jonesieboy, David and Jennie will be heading up to Islay for Islay High School’s open day and the Education 2020 Teachmeet. I am really looking forward to meeting some new faces and catching up with the usual suspects. If you would like to attend the Teachmeet via flash click [...]
TeachMeetBorders!
“In just 3 days time the 12th edition of TeachMeet will be happening in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. The venue is the Langlee Centre in Galashiels, provided by Scottish Borders Council with - and here’s the great bit - unfiltered wifi access! Things will kick off at about 6pm and will run till about [...]
The BETT Show takes place at Olympia in London this week. Unfortunately I have not been able to get time off work to attend however I will most definitely be attending the ever popular TeachMeet on the Friday night. I met with David Noble on Friday night and both of us aim to get to [...]
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 [...]
Having just finished my marking for the evening I thought I would pop into my twitter account.
I saw this from ‘the beeb’ and wasn’t sure what to make of it…
“Screaming Jelly Babies and exploding puddings are being used to attract more recruits into science teaching”
Though Science can be associated with exciting experiments, is this really [...]
I was reading a ‘tweet’ from Andrew Brown this morning so I thought I would quote him;
“So ‘yes we can’ became ‘yes we have’ - thank goodness America”.
Anyway here is an interesting article that popped up in my aggregator from the ‘Beeb’ this morning.
Another Scot in the Whitehouse!
Photo credit: Transplanted Mountaineer
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 [...]
The International Handheld Learning Conference 2008 takes place this week (13-15th) at The Barbican in London. From East Lothian, both Ollie Bray and I have been asked to host spotlight sessions by Learning and Teaching Scotland. My session will be similar to the seminar that Alicia MacFarlane and I hosted at the Scottish Learning festival:
‘Using [...]
Many thanks to Lynne Lewis for blogging about this. If you fancy getting your hands on a free USB stick click on to memory4teachers.
The Mary Poppins Musical the musical is currently showing at the Edinburgh Playhouse. Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending this super show along with 50 keen 3rd year Drama students and my friends and colleagues John and Luke. This musical is one that I hadn’t seen before.
The story line is very similar to that of the [...]
