Thursday, October 30, 2008

To Blog or to Twitter

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Busy and very productive week - Interesting piece on Radio 4 as I drove in to office on Monday - is blogging dying and/or are users switchin...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Searchme This is Wow

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Searchme View in searchme: full | lite
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

HHL08 Hand Held Learning

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For first time in last three years there was not an SQA rep at Hand Held Learning Conference. However there was a strong Scottish contingent...
Monday, October 06, 2008

BETT 2008

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"by spring 2008 every pupil should have access to a *personalised online learning space *with the potential to support an e-portfolio...

Walt Disney - Chicken Little - 1943

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A friend sent this on this morning - parallels with panic in the financial sector. You can tell too that cartoons were for grown ups in 1943...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Do you want to see into the future ?

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Programme: Innovating e-Learning online conference 2008 and following from last post - here is a shameless plug for an online conference ....

BECTA Web 2 Survey

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The lastest BECTA study just makes me mad. - Web2 even Web1 is such a fantasic learning resource and yet learners in schools get more access...
Monday, September 29, 2008

$98 Linux Laptop from China - The HiVision MiniNote

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When you see this I think it confirms where learning is going and where schools in the UK need to go. Those who run IT in schools need to co...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Key note Scottish Learning Festival

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Fiona Hyslop - Cabinet Secretary 7,000 attendees best year yet for SLF 1400 at Fiona's talk Economic success and getting all young peop...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Scottish Learning Festival 2008

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There are a few main gatherings I have in my diary every year. What was SETT and is now the Scottish Learning Festival is one of them . It ...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Journalism and Education

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Read this - then read it again and again.. At the SQA we are of course totally "crazy" and we thrive on getting "black marks...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Ben Walker - You're No One If You're Not On Twitter

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Lyric amused me Picked up from Jane Knight http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/ But scarier there are even more songs on YouTube about Twitte...

Blackholes and Beer Bottles

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Heard the news today and remembered a friend who was working on this 10 years or more ago and who is sadly no longer around - and then spott...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Next Generation of National Qualifications

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Teachers the future shape of qualifications is in your hands .. I posted earlier on this when the consultation started - it is critical that...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide

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ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide Leeds, UK, 9-11 September 2008 I am missing ALT-C this week - but w...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Chrome New Google Browser

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Now sitting with five or six ( safari arrives every time i-tunes updates)  different browsers on my desk-top. To date I have liked Firefox b...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

The World of Chemistry

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This cheered me up and more seriously something for learners of all ages http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/teens/index.htm

Digital Media Academy

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What if I said Scottish schools and Colleges could do something like this right now ? and learners would get credit towards a range of natio...
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Monday, September 01, 2008

Like-A -Bike

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Sometimes simple ideas really work. My two year old goes out into garden puts on his bicycle helmet and races around the garden freewheeling...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The revised organisational framework for skills in Scotland

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This is dry but factual and thanks to Susie Hill and our internal research team for this excellent summary. A detailed view of who looks af...