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.
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 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
