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 [...]
Something to lift us out of tonight’s horrible weather!
(Thanks to Mr W for the J-Peg)
Today I spent the day at Prestonpans Education Centre for Day 2 of our Glow Operational Training, and I am still buzzing!
As I you will be aware, there are two administrator roles in Glow. These are the Accounts [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I read this article in the Edinburgh Evening News this morning:
“A NEW sign language designed to revolutionise the way science is taught to deaf children in schools has been developed in Edinburgh.
Teachers and language specialists have collated a glossary of more than 250 signs, which can be accessed over the internet.Under the £25,000 move, complex [...]
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 [...]
This morning I popped out to North Berwick High School. Robert Jones is a Maths Teacher and Glow mentor there. Over the weekend Robert had been questioning how Pupil writing would compare when using a ‘text‘ device to that of a keyboard. The use of ‘text’ communication is ever increasing and this ‘End-Of-Term’ experiment could be [...]
Today I spent the day at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. The school will be trialling a set of thirty-five handheld Sony PSPs with a class of P6/7 pupils. The purpose of today was to allow staff to learn more about PSPs and look at the potential use of them to enhance teaching and learning. Tomorrow we [...]
This afternoon I had my first ‘play’ with the Glow portal since June.
Here in East Lothian Dave Rawson (East Lothian’s Glow Implementation Officer) has been working away planning and testing. It is not just as simple as one might think. There are huge implications for the Authority. One of our primary decisions involves the ‘switching’ [...]
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 [...]
