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 [...]
Last week we held the fifth session at Knox Academy in Haddington.
One teacher’s feedback:
“I really enjoyed the presentation last night, it is to be discussed at my Departmental Meeting next week as we don’t have anything like this in my region at present. Excellent delivery of a very serious issue - well done! “
Tonight (Tuesday [...]
In June this year, East Lothian Council, in partnership with Lothian and Borders Police, will be hosting a series of Internet safety and responsible use training sessions for parents with pupils in P5 - S6 across the county. This is in response to growing concerns, expressed by individual parents and parent councils, about how to [...]
East Lothian Glow Open Meeting
Monday 26th of May 2008
4-5pm
Prestonpans Education Centre
This evening the team will be holding an open evening on Glow. Please feel free to come along and find out more. You can book your place by contacting Suzanne Todd on stodd@eastlothian.gov.uk
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.
Mr Cocker discovering that, in fact his “angel is a centrefold”.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am a huge fan of 80’s music. When I heard that North Berwick High School were putting on a performance of the musical ‘Back to the Eighties’ I knew I just had to get tickets.
‘Set in the [...]
It certainly has!- Very ‘theme 6‘ I think
Tomorrow will we will under go the first of our two days Glow Mentor training. We have twenty mentors in East Lothian. Among our mentors we have a wide variety of expertise. In addition to Primary and Secondary practitioners we also have support staff.
Andrew Brown and [...]
Further to my last post on The Winning Game, we are scheduled to commence the pilot in March. Our chosen pilot school is Knox Academy.
I would like to say thank you in advance to the PE Department at the school who will hosting the trial.
Our intentions are to share our thoughts and experiences on the Winning [...]
