Saturday, September 17, 2011

#altc2011 Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate review Part One

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It has taken me longer than I thought to get to reflecting on #altc2011,   really as the winds of policy change have been blowing strongly ...
Monday, September 12, 2011

#EduscotICT Schools in Scotland and Mobile Devices

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Still compiling a report on Alt-C conference . I was especially impressed by Miguel Brechner's update on the progress of the one lap-to...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

#EduScotICT Future of ICT in Scottish Schools Ramblings

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I just had a go at chipping some ideas in to an ongoing debate on future of ICT in Scottish Schools   . I am not sure if I put the right bi...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Barriers to Adoption of Open Educational Resources

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Just spent some useful time in a workshop with lots of colleagues looking at  some of the challenges around the adoption of Open Educati...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

#altc2011 Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate

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Last year I did quite a detailed post on the things I am looking for at the Association for Learning Technology Conference. http://www....

New Ways to Change the World or at least talk about it

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It is worth reflecting following some active UK Government discussion around greater regulation of twitter , Facebook  blackberry messagi...
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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