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 [...]
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 [...]
This morning I visited Campie Primary School. Campie are hosting a trial of the hand held device the Sony PSP.
The purpose of this trial is to investigate the potential of the Sony PSP in the context of learning. In December Derek Robertson (from Learning and Teaching Scotland), Karen Robertson Alicia MacFarlane and Steven Wood (Campie) [...]
Pop over to Jim Henderson’s page.
Nothing wrong with a bit of satire!
Tonight my colleague, Elizabeth Cowan, and I attended a Twilight session at Prestonpans Education Centre. The session was hosted by Ollie Bray (Ollie is a Depute Head Teacher at Musselburgh Grammar School). This evening Ollie gave us lively presentation on Google Earth and how to maximise its potential use in the classroom. In the past [...]
Courtesy of Neil Winton, I have just heard that Marratech, Glow’s Video Conferencing tool, has been bought over by Google.
I think that this is very good news for Glow.
I will be holding a Video Conference for all East Lothian Mentors, 6pm on Monday (23/04/07). Please drop me a comment if you weren’t on this afternoon’s [...]
The Ascent of Man (1973) was a groundbreaking BBC documentary series, produced in association with Time-Life Films, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski.
It was thee book (at the time, not DVD) that I read/studied many a time whilst at Uni (the cover has changed slightly, it now has DVD in the right hand corner).
However, [...]
This may not be any big secret to a number of you, but I felt it was worth a mention on my blog. As we know, the internet has lots and lots of information. There are lots and lots of ways to filter this information, allowing you to find the particular facts etc, that you [...]
