Stenton Primary School have been podcasting some interesting descriptions of monsters that they have created. The pupils at Athelstaneford Primary School will draw the monsters from these descriptions. The team here at John Muir house have been so impressed with these podcasts, we have decided to join in. Here is my drawing of Lewis’s monster.
I might [...]
Over the last few months Karen Robertson has been developing a Responsible Use Policy for East Lothian. This can now be found on our Edubuzz Wiki. As this is the first draft of this policy, we would very much welcome any feedback either via comment or email.
This week I attended an eLearning Alliance meeting in Perth. The meeting was lead by Bill Esdale from Techknowledgey.
During this meeting we looked at some new software.
Crazy talk is an application that allows the user to take an image (or portrait) and digitally bring it to life. In East Lothian we have five ’stand alone’ licences that [...]
This morning I visited Campie Primary School. Campie are hosting a trial of the Sony PSP. They are exploring the potential of this hand-held device as a learning tool. Today we were also joined by Derek Robertson from Learning and Teaching Scotland. Derek has written a summary of his visit on the Consolarium Weblog here.
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The final highlight of BETT was the TeachMeet on the Friday night. In Scotland we have hosted a number of these un-conferences. These were ably coordinated by Ewan McIntosh. The idea is that anyone can share cool ideas they have or great ideas they’ve trialled in their classrooms. All they needed to do was to [...]
Mark Pentleton is a colleague of mine. In addition to being a ‘Curriculum for Excellence Officer’ for East Ayrshire Council. Mark also runs his own company, Radio Lingua-
‘Radio Lingua Ltd provides educational content for language learners across the world and is the company behind some of the world’s most popular educational podcasts including Coffee Break Spanish [...]
Studywiz:
“Studywiz is a dynamic Becta approved learning platform for schools. It is a key tool in transforming education to address 21st century needs”.
I am aware that some Authorities are starting to use this Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) . As they had a stand at BETT I was curious and just had to explore.
My Studywiz guide [...]
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 [...]
On Tuesday we held a second meeting to discuss the Sony PSP trials that are due to start at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. Derek Robertson from Learning and Teaching Scotland is leading the pilot. He has written a review of the initiative here on the Learning and Teaching Scotland’s Consolarium Web-log.
In addition to Derek’s summary, here [...]
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