Thursday, October 27, 2011

Microsoft Partners in Learning Opportunities for Teachers

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o There are  rich learning opportunities available from the private sector . Through the DIVA Partnership we've been lucky to wor...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

#EduScotICT What more to debate about Wifi in Schools ?

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Just catching up with blogs and posts just  had a great week off with family around Scotland. Surprised and rather disappointed that no-...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

#dob11 The Connected Educator - I like learner better

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Sometimes I hear the cynic in me - "Over the last 7 or 8 years one way or another I 've seen every slide in this presentation - d...
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Saturday, October 08, 2011

Oldhall Scouts Celebrate 100 years

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Thanks to my friend Alasdair Marsden for photo I spent last weekend celebrating 30 years since I left school - I had in reality kept...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

#tmslf11 #slf11 Quick Post

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I managed the first day at SLF and well done GLOW TV for giving us footage of  the whole event . You can catch keynotes here. The futur...

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

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Here is quick summary of the things I discovered or revisited in last half of the ALT-C Conference  Karen Cator  presented an interesting...
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 ...