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Entries Tagged as 'EduBuzz'

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Internet Safety Sessions This Week.

Last week we held the third and fourth Internet Safety Sessions at Ross High and Dunbar Grammar School.
One parent’s feedback:
“I was at the session at Ross High last night. It was excellent and I was mortified by how much I learnt! “
Tomorrow (Wednesday of 18th June) we are hosting the fifth session for parents and […]

Monday, June 9th, 2008

EduBuzz Open Meeting: Today

Monday 09-06-08 (4pm)
Large Meeting Room- John Muir House, Haddington.
This afternoon we will be holding this month’s EduBuzz Open Meeting. These meetings are open to anyone who has a genuine interest in the latest developments in East Lothian’s online community. If you haven’t been to one of them before, and you are curious, please feel free to […]

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Internet Safety Training for Parents and Carers in East Lothian

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 […]

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.

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Our EduBuzz Wiki- 176th In The World!

Thanks to Ewan for letting us know! It is great that our East Lothian EduBuzz wiki is being so widely used. It has lots of useful documents, tips, links and guidelines. It will also soon host our Responsible Use Policy (RUP) which is currently been developed by Karen Robertson.
Well done and thank you to all of […]

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

PSP Trial- Campie Primary (Update 2)

This morning I visited Campie Primary School. Campie are hosting a trial of the Sony PSP. They are exploring the potential of this hand-held device as a learning tool. Today we were also joined by Derek Robertson from Learning and Teaching Scotland. Derek has written a summary of his visit on the Consolarium Weblog here.
You can […]

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

EduBuzz Readers: ATTENTION!

If you are a reader of our EduBuzz sites, and you use an aggregator, please can you pop over to David Gilmour’s site.
Netvibes is my preferred choice, but I would welcome your thoughts on alternative aggregators.

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 […]

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Teachmeet Road Show- Campie PS

This afternoon David Gilmour and I hosted a TeachMeet Road Show on Online Publishing at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. David led the session whilst I hopped around assisting the staff.
Campie are starting to develop their school website using our EduBuzz Wordpress platform- and so far so good! The aim of today was to give […]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

EduBuzz Open Meeting 21-01-08

Monday 21-01-08 (4pm)
Large Meeting Room- John Muir House, Haddington.
Tomorrow we will be holding this month’s EduBuzz Open Meeting. These meetings are open to anyone who has a genuine interest in the latest developments in East Lothian’s online community. If you haven’t been to one of them before, and you are curious, please feel free to pop […]