Tomorrow I take up my new post as eLearning Community Facilitator for Edinburgh University and the STEP programme. I am very excited about my move and I hope to share as much as possible with you here.
I would like to thank all my friends, colleagues and pupils that I have worked with at Knox Academy [...]
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 [...]
As John Connell reported yesterday, an Autopsy was performed on a dead Fulmar bird by Dr Jan Andries Franeker, a senior scientist at the Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem studies in the Netherlands. It was broadcast via video (GlowMeet) on the Glow portal.
Yesterday my Higher Biology class and I were lucky enough to participate [...]
A very big well done to all at Musselburgh Grammar School and Depute Head Teacher Ollie Bray for their on-going ground breaking work.
Full article here
I am looking forward to seeing this project rolled out across East Lothian’s High School clusters next year.
The rollout of Glow is now well underway in East Lothian. We will be holding drop-in sessions at Prestonpans Education centre for staff. The first session will be this Monday (27th October) 4-5:30pm. The sessions will be run by David Gilmour and Elizabeth Cowan. I will be there after school.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
And I am back after a relaxing break.
Between two great holidays, plans for the Glow rollout, NQT Induction days and buying my all new (white) Eee PC I am not sure where to start. During the next few weeks I will share as many thoughts as possible.
Today David Gilmour and I ventured through to the LTS [...]
