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Entries Tagged as 'East Lothian'

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Responsible Use Policy (RUP)

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.

Monday, March 17th, 2008

North Berwick High Goes “Back To The 80’s”

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 [...]

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

East Lothian Has Got The Glow Bug!

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 [...]

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The Winning Game- Knox Academy.

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 [...]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Morning Driving…

0725 HRS, Seafield Road, Edinburgh.
Just one of the many things that are great about working in East Lothian!
Bit ironic though, as I was listening to ‘I won’t let the sun go down’- Nik Kershaw.
It is -1C here, the lingering sea harr has lifted; here’s hoping for another dump of the white stuff up North!
Some skiing [...]

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

RM ASUS MiniBook- Some More Thoughts.

I have now had a chance to explore the RM ASUS MiniBook further. We have five of these machines in East Lothian. These are being trialled by a number of teaching staff. In addition to my recent post, here are a few more of my thoughts.
Here are a few of my notes- bearing in mind I am reflecting [...]

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

East Lothian: Glow Op’s Training- Day 1

Today I, along with eleven other colleagues, attended the first day of East Lothian’s Operational Training of the Glow portal. The training was run by Jamie Kirkwood, Stephen Forsyth and Paul Rooney from RM’s technical team and Martin Brown from Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS). As I mentioned in my last post, we were learning [...]

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Glow Operational Training in East Lothian.

During the next two days we will be under ‘glow-ing’ our first formal Glow training here in East Lothian. The operational training will be given to twelve individuals from a range of key areas in education including: teachers, managers, technical and support staff.
Following this training we will begin working with our mentors in [...]

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Teachmeet Road Show- Ross High

Yesterday we held a second Teachmeet Roadshow  at Ross High School in Tranent. Due to the nature of this Roadshow we were required to bring in equipment from Prestonpans Education Centre:

 10 DVD Kits
20 Web Cam Packs
20 Digital Cameras
10 iBook Power Supplies (including no 4 )
10 G4 iBooks
24 USB Desk Microphones
2 LCD Projectors
4 iPods
10 Animation [...]

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

BETT 2008- RM Asus Minibook

Wikipedia 
RM specialises in providing products and services to schools, colleges, universities and government education departments & agencies. While RM is primarily involved in supplying information communications and technology (ICT) services to UK education, the group also includes companies providing educational software in the US and school management software in the Asia Pacific region.
RM is also [...]