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This weekend I along with Louise, Jonesieboy, David and Jennie will be heading up to Islay for Islay High School’s open day and the Education 2020 Teachmeet. I am really looking forward to meeting some new faces and catching up with the usual suspects. If you would like to attend the Teachmeet via flash click [...]

TeachMeetBorders!
“In just 3 days time the 12th edition of TeachMeet will be happening in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. The venue is the Langlee Centre in Galashiels, provided by Scottish Borders Council with - and here’s the great bit - unfiltered wifi access! Things will kick off at about 6pm and will run till about [...]

The BETT Show takes place at Olympia in London this week. Unfortunately I have not been able to get time off work to attend however I will most definitely be attending the ever popular TeachMeet on the Friday night. I met with David Noble on Friday night and both of us aim to get to [...]

I have been meaning to write this post for a while- it is intended for those of you who would like to know a bit more about the benefits of using Facebook and Twitter.
For a few years now I have been using the social networking site Facebook; and I love it. It is my main [...]

Tomorrow will see the first day of the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC in Glasgow. Following the seminars and a good trawl of the stands in the main hall I will be attending the TeachmeetSLF08.
In Scotland we have hosted a number of these un-conferences. These have been ably coordinated by Ewan McIntosh. The idea [...]

 
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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 [...]