Saturday, November 26, 2011

#sveaconf Next Generation Learning Conference

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The prospect of getting up at 3.45am to cross Scotland to  catch a very early flight from Edinburgh to Brussels was only challenge in g...

Telecare and Telehealth Conference #teleconf_2011

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A week after CompTIA and back at the same venue the cavernous Edgeware Road Hilton Metropolitan . An opportunity to talk about developm...

#EMEA11 CompTIA

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I combined a visit to the annual CompTIA conference with some other business meetings in London. A number of CompTIA certifications can b...

#govcamp SCOTLAND

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It is great to see initiatives beginning to move towards one another is probably the best description of what will hopefully become a ...

Scottish Stakeholder Group on Internet Safety

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We've been actively engaged with Government , Police, Education Scotland and a range of agencies through the national stakeholder gr...
Friday, November 25, 2011

November Madness

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This has been an unbelievably busy month and I am only finally getting around to doing some reflection. All change is not an understatement...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Life In A Day Now Available on YouTube

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On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world recorded videos of their lives to take part in Life in a Day , a cinematic experim...
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...