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As I was in London this weekend visiting family and friends I decided to take a flexi-day on Monday (my secondment is not on teacher’s holidays). This meant I was able to catch-up with Ewan for a light refreshment in the afternoon and also attend the Teachmeet- London North East in the evening. I am always interested to [...]
I would like to say a big well done and thanks to Neil Winton for arranging Teachmeet North. As always these events are really useful for learning, sharing and networking. John Johnston has written a good summary here.
I would also like to say thank you to David Gilmour for taxi-ing the East Lothian posse up [...]
For those of you that haven’t already heard, Neil Winton is well under way planning TeachMeet North 19/02/2008, Perth, Scotland.
TeachMeet events really are one of the best ways of sharing good practice and networking.
Amongst the speakers is Andrew Brown from Learning and Teaching Scotland. Andrew is down to talk about:
‘Glow- Where are we now? -An update from around [...]
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 [...]
This afternoon David Gilmour and I hosted a TeachMeet Road Show on Online Publishing at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. David led the session whilst I hopped around assisting the staff.
Campie are starting to develop their school website using our EduBuzz Wordpress platform- and so far so good! The aim of today was to give [...]
I meant to post this link after BETT (I know this has been mentioned by others before, but I thought I would mention it again- just incase you missed it!).
ClassTools.net is a really cool (free!) website that you can use to add even more spice to your lessons using ‘Flash’. It includes the ‘Random Name selector’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As I mentioned in my last post RM had a large presence at BETT 2008. I would like to take this opportunity to thank RM for their outstanding hospitality throughout the event. Firstly, for the meal on Thursday night. It was excellent and the company was great fun- it is always nice to put a face to [...]
