A belated Happy New Year to you all!
As always I like to get out of Edinburgh for New Year. This year I decided to venture east to Slovakia. As with many of my travels I thought I would share a few thoughts.
The capital of Slovakia is Bratislava. You can fly directly to the city from [...]
It has been a while so I thought I would post another factoid. My good friend Phil is a trainee solicitor for Biggart-Baillie. During part of his ICT training he and his colleagues were given this Blockbuster style PowerPoint on IT Acronyms.
Can you name them all?
I thought I did quite well with only a couple [...]
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 [...]
Tomorrow will see the first day of the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC in Glasgow. Following the seminars and a good trawl of the stands in the main hall I will be attending the TeachmeetSLF08.
In Scotland we have hosted a number of these un-conferences. These have been ably coordinated by Ewan McIntosh. The idea [...]
During the weekend we ventured over to the Isle of Islay. We had been invited there by my friend and colleague Ian Stuart and his wife Caroline to watch the Annual Beach Rugby Competition -“Eat Sand”.
The rules of Islay Beach Rugby are as follows-
“Field Dimensions
The size of a Beach Rugby field depends on the decision of the league. [...]
A couple of weeks ago we ventured back to Fife to visit a family friend’s exhibition. Poppy and I have known each other for over 20 years. She is now a very accomplished Scottish artist. I am not a professional artist but I do like Art. Indeed, I gained a band 1A at SQA Higher level [...]
