Last week we held the third and fourth Internet Safety Sessions at Ross High and Dunbar Grammar School.
One parent’s feedback:
“I was at the session at Ross High last night. It was excellent and I was mortified by how much I learnt! “
Tomorrow (Wednesday of 18th June) we are hosting the fifth session for parents and [...]
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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Which one would you choose?
Yesterday afternoon Elizabeth Cowan (fellow ESO) and I visited West Barns Primary School. West Barns are looking to purchase some handheld hardware that will compliment their Smart Boards. As you may know there are two main types of Interactive White Boards (IWB’s) that are used throughout classrooms in Scotland (Promethean and [...]
I saw this on the ‘Beebs’ site before I left for work today. I wasn’t sure if posting anything would be positive (child protection is a heart here).
Having followed the McCann case for the past six months I now fully appreciate the power of online media and awareness.
Please click this link
I would like to say huge congratulations to my friend and colleague Jan Peaston. Jan joined our Biology department at Knox Academy on a temporary basis last year. Last week Jan was successfully appointed at Broughton High School. Broughton’s gain will most certainly be our loss! I would like to thank Jan for all her hard work and [...]
I haven’t written much on this webpage for a while, so I have a bit of a backlog of posts. There are a number of things I have been meaning to share, but for number of reasons, my webpage has had to take a back seat for a few days. I am not sure if [...]
On Monday and Tuesday, I attended a residential Glow Training Course based at Stirling Management centre. The attendees included 13 Mentor from various piloting authourities, 3 Educationalists from RM and LTS, and 3 technical staff from RM.
On Monday, we started with an introductory presentation. This mainly focussed on what our aims and objectives of [...]
Miss Watson and Mr Wren experience Nemesis!
On Thursday morning we departed London. On route back to Scotland we were scheduled to spend the afternoon at Alton Towers. I am sure most of you will be aware of how popular a destination Alton Towers is. I won’t give you a report on our experiences there, [...]
When working hard, Horses sweat, men perspire and lady (mentors)….
It has been a long day (my apologies if this post doesn’t read too well).
Aside to collating pupil SQA folios and teaching today, I was really pleased to meet with Elizabeth Cowan (EL Council) and our LTS Educationalist Dawn Adams at Knox. As I [...]
Courtesy of George Heriot’s Rugby Club, I have acquired a number of Glow Glasses! Any mentors or readers interested?
I would have uploaded an image of myself but I thought they looked quite good on my Oliver Postgate’s Clanger!
