Wednesday, July 27, 2011

PISA Measuring Student Success Around the World

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I've been tracking growth of PISA for a number of years. The system has its uses as a comparator . But it is not without some flaws a...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Islay High School

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Islay High School came on to my radar about six years ago. We were working with Adobe to build capacity in to the Scottish Educati...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Piracy , Internet Safety and Identity Theft

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On way into work the other morning a well known Glasgow businessman told me that he was having problems with his home Internet account ...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

LIfe in A Day

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YouTube’s Life in a Day arrived in major cities in the U.K. and the U.S. yesterday. A great advert for humanity and our ever shrinking wo...

Hype or Not to Hype

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I agree with most of Steve Wheeler's ideas - and there is a lot to be inspired by in this presentation. But it also raises more questi...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

#showcase2011 Scottish Technology Showcase

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All the new things you might imagine -green forms of energy generation and storage, Telehealthcare, Cloud Computing , Data Centres , Innov...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Lest We Forget

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As America starts to build an appropriate national education and skills system . We should reflect on what we take too much for granted in ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

#teachmeet Five Years of Teachmeets

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Subheading could be five years of teachmeets and the world is a better place but it has not changed. Five years ago some folks working ...
Monday, May 23, 2011

The Case for Open Educational Resources and Open Books

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I would like to see Scottish Colleges and Schools plugged in more actively to the growing open educational resource movement. I have made th...

Talking Dog

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This week we've watched this clip every night - it cracks my kids up. We want to know where we can buy a talking dog ? We'd like...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

#open4ed Open for Education and RSC North and East Last Post

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Attribution: Image: ' One more from the Storr ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/59562171@N00/88904665 and with thanks to Carol Walke...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Technologies for Learning Strategy #ediff #TforL

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Now the election is over it is great to see some things starting to move quite quickly again. One area is that of technologies for learnin...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Amusing Guide to Making Folks Feel Old

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Battleship Potemkin is off the scale then ..

Typing Shop Abu Dhabi

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Typing Shop , a photo by joecar80 on Flickr. I'm sure they will move on to other devices - but worth a pause for thought. These shops ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Five Big Mistakes in Virtual Education

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Liked this as a presentation and for way it handles some challenges. Still not certain there is enough learning around this being shared bet...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Get Thinking through Images

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Just thought this was such a wonderful animated gif from Dr Strangelove . I found this and lots of other images that are food for thought at...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

ELearning Alliance

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Spent this morning with old and new friends at the E-Learning Alliance having a look at ;  their mission, the support they provide to memb...
Monday, April 04, 2011

The Role of New Media in Vocational Education

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I spend a lot of the time trying to explain things that George Siemens seems to have developed a knack for.  Link above links to two really ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Meta Data in Music and everything else

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3D Data from Decibel on Vimeo . I am not sure how this arrived on my desktop this morning - but it is a great example of how metadata c...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Scottish Parliament Dissolution

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The Scottish Parliament election takes place on 5th May 2011, and the formal election period begins on 23 March following dissolution of Par...