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 [...]
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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 [...]
Yesterday I was asked by Knox Academy to attend a twilight session at Prestonpans Education Centre. The session was held by Ewan McIntosh. Ewan covered three very useful aspects of the web. Rather than go into huge details (I am very short on time right now) you can click on the links below.
Google Cheat Sheet. [...]
Yesterday I spent the afternoon at BarCamp. This was the first BarCamp in Scotland. The idea is that everyone there should present a short session. There were lots of people speaking with the thread of ICT being common. The choice of who to go and see was a difficult one. My first port of [...]
My apologies for this rater late post. Between helping a frail relative, a virtual Tsunami in my flat (thank goodness for AA insurance!), writing 29 Higher and Advanced Higher reports and an HMIe inspection I am afraid I have had to put my webpage to the bottom of my priorities this week.
On Monday, I [...]
As you may have noticed, I am currently collecting information on ‘Useful Websites’. I want to create a catalogue of sites that are/will be particularly relevant to Science Teachers and Learners across Scotland. Initially, I am looking for sites that relate to my field; Science and Biology. This week I have asked my pupils to [...]
I am hoping that this post will be useful to some readers. Please bear in mind that this is my account of RSS with relevance to blogging.
RSS- With an orange logo that reminds me of the old supermarket chain Fine-Fare, it appears on many websites these days. Most of us have heard of it or [...]
