Saturday, March 29, 2008

Where has March gone ?

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A criticism that can often justifiably be made of any non-departmental public body is that we are too preoccupied with our own bureaucracy a...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

When will education start working

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From Today's Herald - I fully acknowledge it is not all about qualifications and worry about a system that makes so much of statistics a...
Saturday, March 08, 2008

Scotedublogs

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John Johnstone , Robert Jones and Peter Liddle have been updating the platform that Scotedublogs sits on .They are stars and I was glad th...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Curriculum for Excellence

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We are getting close to looking at the what will, and how it will be assessed bit of a Curriculum for Excellence . This is worth a look a...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Literacy Outcomes and the Networked Teacher

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Interesting and pleasing to see that literacy outcomes include new media. Ewan captures these well here . I hope most teachers will embrace...

Reflections on Blogging

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I have been keeping a blog again for almost a year. I am mainly doing this to keep my own staff in touch with my movements and musings. I wa...
Saturday, February 09, 2008

Law, Social Care , McDonalds and Brussels

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Usual running around but three big things in last two weeks which are the result of some pretty hard graft over the last year or so. We ...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

What I do

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I was a guest at the Colquhan Dinner in Glasgow's Trade House on Friday night. It was a great night and twice I was challenged on wha...
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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