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 [...]
Following the success of the bird autopsy via GlowMeet , the Sea Bird Centre in North Berwick will be holding a second session. On Wednesday the 18th of March the Centre will host a GlowMeet especially for Early Years practitioners. Although the event is taking place in East Lothian, it is open to any authorities that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tomorrow will see the first day of the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC in Glasgow. Following the seminars and a good trawl of the stands in the main hall I will be attending the TeachmeetSLF08.
In Scotland we have hosted a number of these un-conferences. These have been ably coordinated by Ewan McIntosh. The idea [...]
The Scottish Learning Festival takes place on the 24th and 25th of September this year. As always there is a wealth of keynotes and Seminars. This year along with Alicia MacFarlane I will be hosting a seminar on our recent Sony PSP project.
‘Using the Sony PSP as a learning tool in the primary classroom’
If you [...]
