A very big well done to all at Musselburgh Grammar School and Depute Head Teacher Ollie Bray for their on-going ground breaking work.
Full article here
I am looking forward to seeing this project rolled out across East Lothian’s High School clusters next year.
I have just finished School for the day so I am having a rumage through the ‘tweets’ in my twitter account.
This just came through from the ‘Beeb‘.
One Laptop Per Child is upon us!
Photo Credit: BBC
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 [...]
The International Handheld Learning Conference 2008 takes place this week (13-15th) at The Barbican in London. From East Lothian, both Ollie Bray and I have been asked to host spotlight sessions by Learning and Teaching Scotland. My session will be similar to the seminar that Alicia MacFarlane and I hosted at the Scottish Learning festival:
‘Using [...]
Many thanks to Lynne Lewis for blogging about this. If you fancy getting your hands on a free USB stick click on to memory4teachers.
The Scottish Learning Festival takes place on the 24th and 25th of September this year. As always there is a wealth of keynotes and Seminars. This year along with Alicia MacFarlane I will be hosting a seminar on our recent Sony PSP project.
‘Using the Sony PSP as a learning tool in the primary classroom’
If you [...]
As you maybe aware we recently ran trials of the Asus Minibooks. Five machines were allocated to a number of teachers within the authourity. We asked our members of staff to investigate the suitability of these machines as classroom tools. In June I decided to splash out and treat myself to an all new 4GB [...]
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One of the projects that Elizabeth and I are currently working on is the refresh of the PC desktops in Primary schools. As part of the process we are visiting the Headteachers and ICT Coordinators in each Primary School to discuss what their preferred choice would be between a ‘like for like’ machine [...]
Ian Usher has written a super review of this machine. You can read it here.
Photo credit PC Adviser
Our trials of the Asus Minibook are ongoing. This week we will be recalling the machines and installing Windows XP; comparisons to follow…
In the meantime, here are Stephen Fry’s thoughts…
(Thanks to Douglas for the link)
“This is a computer designed as an introductory machine for children or adults, as well as a simple cheap do-it-all machine along [...]
