Having just finished my marking for the evening I thought I would pop into my twitter account.
I saw this from ‘the beeb’ and wasn’t sure what to make of it…
“Screaming Jelly Babies and exploding puddings are being used to attract more recruits into science teaching”
Though Science can be associated with exciting experiments, is this really [...]
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 [...]
Photo credit: Darkest before dawn
Islay High School open day looks like it is going to be a very worth while and interesting event. Unfortunately I have a team away-day on the 13th.
Here’s what Ian Stuart (PT Technology and Design) says:
“In just over a weeks time we are going to have an ICT open day. This is being [...]
I was gutted to find out that Grange Hill is due to be axed by the Beeb. Its first broadcast was in 1978 and exactly three decades later, it is coming to an end.
Controller of CBBC Anne Gilchrist brought to an end much speculation about the future of the series.
“The lives of children [...]
Louise Jones is a friend and colleague of mine. She is the Health & Wellbeing Subject Supporter for The Highland Council, Education Culture and Sport Service and NHS Highland, Department of Public Health.
I first met Louise at Teachmeet 2007 in Glasgow after the Scottish Learning Festival. Lousie has recently started her own Weblog where she [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday we held a second Teachmeet Roadshow at Ross High School in Tranent. Due to the nature of this Roadshow we were required to bring in equipment from Prestonpans Education Centre:
10 DVD Kits
20 Web Cam Packs
20 Digital Cameras
10 iBook Power Supplies (including no 4 )
10 G4 iBooks
24 USB Desk Microphones
2 LCD Projectors
4 iPods
10 Animation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today I spent the afternoon at Humbie Primary School. Humbie is a small School situated about 15 miles outside Haddington in East Lothian. Following a meeting on Tuesday with a Representative from Genee, the staff at the school will be trialling a relatively new form of hardware called a ‘Visualiser’.
Visualisers are basically very high powered digital/video cameras that [...]
