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 [...]
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RM specialises in providing products and services to schools, colleges, universities and government education departments & agencies. While RM is primarily involved in supplying information communications and technology (ICT) services to UK education, the group also includes companies providing educational software in the US and school management software in the Asia Pacific region.
RM is also [...]
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 Friday we ran a follow up TeachMeet for the staff at Musselburgh Grammar School.
We decided to adopt a ‘drop-in’ style for this particular session. The afternoon was spent working with the staff supporting their projects and helping them to develop their ideas. One of the main things MGS are working on is their website. [...]
The platform that supports EduBuzz is called Wordpress. On Friday I ran a session on ‘Online Publishing’ at the Musselburgh Grammar School Teachmeet. One particular set of resources that I directed staff towards was the Wordpress tutorials that Andrew Brown has developed. Although they are based upon a single user platform, the majority of the footage [...]
Tomorrow afternoon, in East Lothian, we will be hosting the next in our series of Teachmeet Road shows. This Road show is being held at Musselburgh Grammar School.
Our Teachmeet Road shows consist of several seminar type sessions. These are designed to allow staff to explore and share ideas and practice that is being used in schools throughout the [...]
For those of you that haven’t heard, Neil Winton has started planning TeachMeet North 19/02/2008, Perth. TeachMeet events really are one of the most best forms of sharing good practice and networking.
I bumped into Kate Farrell yesterday. Kate suggested that we might want to consider arranging a bus from Edinburgh depending on numbers?
If you would like to sign-up [...]
Although I was only able to attend the Scottish Learning Festival for one day, I was able to attend a number of fantastic seminars and the brilliant TeachMeet. One particular seminar which I found really useful was Derek Robertson’s. Derek is currently on a secondment with Learning and Teaching Scotland. During the course of the [...]
Nick Hood is a teacher of Physics at Kirkcaldy High School in Fife. I originally met Nick back in 1992 when I was a keen member of Forth Valley Branch of the Pony Club. Since those days, both of us have ventured into the teaching profession. Over the last year Nick has been designing and [...]
