This morning I visited Campie Primary School. Campie are hosting a trial of the hand held device the Sony PSP.
The purpose of this trial is to investigate the potential of the Sony PSP in the context of learning. In December Derek Robertson (from Learning and Teaching Scotland), Karen Robertson Alicia MacFarlane and Steven Wood (Campie) [...]
Immersive Education was one of the many companys that I had on my ‘To Visit’ list at BETT. Here in East Lothian, we have purchased ‘Media Stage’ licenses for our English Departments.
Media Stage is a 3D virtual perforamce stage. Users are involved in script-writing, casting, set building, propping, directing, lighting, audio-recording, editing and camera skills:
Immersive Education:
Students [...]
This week and weekend I, along with a number of other colleagues from Scotland, attended the BETT Show at London’s Olympia. BETT is one of the world’s largest educational technology events. It had been my intention to write one or two posts during my time there, however time simply did not allow.
One train journey, three [...]
Thanks to Andrew Brown for this link. QP DVD have released this software and will be giving away copies to all those who mention it on their web-logs before christmas!
What fun I intend having with this on Christmas day! Our family dog better make sure he avoids the camera!
Today I spent the day at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. The school will be trialling a set of thirty-five handheld Sony PSPs with a class of P6/7 pupils. The purpose of today was to allow staff to learn more about PSPs and look at the potential use of them to enhance teaching and learning. Tomorrow we [...]
This afternoon I attended May’s EduBuzz meeting at John Muir House, chaired by Don Ledingham. As always there was a lot to discuss, though the development of EduBuzz in East Lothian was our main topic. This initiative has come on leaps and bounds within the last five months. This is largely due to the ongoing [...]
Yesterday I spent the afternoon at BarCamp. This was the first BarCamp in Scotland. The idea is that everyone there should present a short session. There were lots of people speaking with the thread of ICT being common. The choice of who to go and see was a difficult one. My first port of [...]
Tomorrow I am going to attend BarCamp.
‘BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees’.
If you are interested in the latest digital technologies and you think you have something to contribute, why [...]
The Biology Department at Knox Academy put on a fish dissection annually. We do this every February during a named lunchtime. We show the dissection under our video microscope on screen. It can sometimes be quite difficult to identify the various inner organs, so we have a prepared slide show on a second screen that [...]
Yesterday I attended the first ‘Glow day’ of 2007. The day was run by Karen Robertson and Ewan McIntosh . As you will see from my last post, there was alot of things to cover. During the afternoon, we were asked to form small groups depending on our expertise. I, along with Brian Cunningham [...]
