Wednesday, April 30, 2008

PMOG, Creepy treehouses and Mobile Phones

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I have been having fun with PMOG ( passively multiplayer on-line game) over the last two years or so. It is not quite a game more a fun ta...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

LearningTown

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I have followed Elliot Masie since the mid 1990's - periodically reading his weekly postings. I have just joined this on-line community...

Scotland Glowing

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A great article in today's Herald on Glow. My wish is that we move faster at getting SQA inegrated into the system. We have a lot of go...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

The Next Generation of Qualifications

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We finally get underway with the consultation on new shape of assessment at SCQF 3- 5 in schools - the next bit of a Curriculum for Excellen...

Social Bookmarking Arrives on SQA Website

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Find something you like on SQA website - the finding still may be a challenge (there's a lot of stuff) - and now you can share it throu...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Internet Safety and Future of Computing

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An excellent article and an excellent leader in last week's TES on the Internet Safety Award . Some schools and Colleges have already a...
Monday, April 07, 2008

What Price National Assessment ?

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We are in the middle of reviewing one part of our National Assessment system through a Curriculum for Excellence . The new system will be ba...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Skills Development Scotland

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Skills Development Scotland http://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/ Skills Development Scotland is formally launched today (Tuesday 1 A...
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 ...