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 [...]
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 [...]
As I mentioned I attended a number of Seminars at the BETT show. Here is my summary of the best ones (I apologise if they are not entirely accurate, but I am reading my scribbled shorthand)
Day 1.
Derek Robertson was there spreading the word about the hand held learning trials that he is currently leading throughout [...]
This week and weekend I, along with a number of other colleagues from Scotland, attended the BETT Show at London’s Olympia. BETT is one of the world’s largest educational technology events. It had been my intention to write one or two posts during my time there, however time simply did not allow.
One train journey, three [...]
It is that time of year again. Christmas parties, festive foods galore, Carol services, pantomimes and most importantly spending time with friends and loved ones.
On behalf of the team here in East Lothian I wish all of our colleagues and EduBuzz readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!
On Friday we ran a follow up TeachMeet for the staff at Musselburgh Grammar School.
We decided to adopt a ‘drop-in’ style for this particular session. The afternoon was spent working with the staff supporting their projects and helping them to develop their ideas. One of the main things MGS are working on is their website. [...]
On Tuesday we held a second meeting to discuss the Sony PSP trials that are due to start at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. Derek Robertson from Learning and Teaching Scotland is leading the pilot. He has written a review of the initiative here on the Learning and Teaching Scotland’s Consolarium Web-log.
In addition to Derek’s summary, here [...]
Last night saw this month’s EduBuzz open meeting. As I mentioned on Sunday, these meetings are open to anyone who has a genuine interest in East Lothian’s EduBuzz online community. The meeting was chaired by Don Ledingham (Head of Education in East Lothian)
Here is a brief summary of my notes:
EduBuzz Front Page- The front page [...]
The platform that supports EduBuzz is called Wordpress. On Friday I ran a session on ‘Online Publishing’ at the Musselburgh Grammar School Teachmeet. One particular set of resources that I directed staff towards was the Wordpress tutorials that Andrew Brown has developed. Although they are based upon a single user platform, the majority of the footage [...]
Monday 3rd December 2007- 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 these meetings before, and you are curious, [...]
