Tuesday, January 29, 2008

That was a week that was.

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Only third week into new year and I got to spend it all in Scotland. On Monday I met with the Scottish Funding Council and reviewed their ne...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The National Education Network

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I took a photo of this graphic when I was down in London at BETT and meant to have a look at some of the resources behind the different fro...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

SQA DIVA , World Economic Forum , UNESCO and DAVOS

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While I was on my travels this arrived The World Economic Forum and UNESCO have created the Partnerships for Education Initiative , which ...

Emirates Palace Abu Dhabi

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Emirates Palace Originally uploaded by joecar 80 On domestic front not the best way to start the new season with being away from home ...

BETT 2008 The UK Educational Technology Fair

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I attended this with Bobby Elliott Qualifications Manager for Computing . We use this event as an opportunity to meet many of the senior US ...

New Year Message

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I have had a busy couple of weeks - either out of the office or back to back meetings with usual follow ups. I have been watching a few post...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

VCT - Virtual Classroom Tours

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We have reached our first milestone of over 50 VCTs en route to our end of year target of approaching 100. At moment they are bound for http...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Cisco Public Services Summit

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John Connell has posted on Cisco Global Summi t. I was fortunate enough to be a guest at this event in 2005. I suppose related to my previo...

SQA Elfs

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It's panto season and the office night out season and in between times the vocational world rumbles on. I have been very fortunate to wo...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Sports Store Game Shortisted for BETT Award

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Over 250 Scottish Secondary Schools 15,000 Pupils 70,000 live games currently 50/50 mix of girls and boys playing Most game playing and le...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Scottish History

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"The announcement that SQA is at long last prepared to introduce a compulsory Scottish element to the Higher history examination is wel...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Partners in Learning and Internet Safety

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Good to see some coverage of Microsoft Schools for the Future Conference in Helsinki in today's Herald Walter's piece links well ...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Computing Crisis

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Westminster E- Forum Keynote Seminar Is there a UK IT Skills Gap – Some headlines I summarise not all but some of what was said today at the...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Big Portfolio Changes from Outside but we're winning

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October has arrived and we are in the midst of finalising development plans for next year. HN Modernisation almost completed, new National C...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Curriculum for Excellence

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Attended an intriguing and challenging presentation from Brian Boyd on Tuesday night around some of the challenges emerging in considering ...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

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My avatar in Scottish Learing Centre Pavillion Originally uploaded by joecar80 A busy four day week involved a presentation to the new...
Monday, September 24, 2007

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Two weeks back from a glorious holiday in Sardinia - well done Ryanair for getting families of mortals to places like this ( I know global w...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

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The week ended well with a meeting with the Scottish Social Services Council and the promise of some additional resources to help with the C...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

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A different weekend. How to confuse your partner - catch a Ryanair Flight from Prestwick to Weeze in Germany and jump in a taxi to Arcen in ...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

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In the mid 1980's I was teaching English and Communication and using a lot of video and other technologies - remember hypercard anyone ...
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