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Rugby: Scotland vs Italy

Posted in Scotland, sport, tagged , on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We won!
Just!
Hurray!

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A normal Friday

Posted in CPD, blogs, learning and teaching, libraries, tagged , , , on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was a typical day in my working life, because there isn’t a typical day. The books on the desk are still glaring at me, there are classes booked in to swap books over and I’ve got lots of mail (electronic and paper) to catch up with after being out of school yesterday at a meeting.
Collect [...]

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What do librarians do?

Posted in learning and teaching, librarians, tagged , , on September 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Several pupils have asked when they can borrow the new books on my desk, and look puzzled on hearing that they’ll be available as soon as I get a chance to catalogue them. What they want to ask is, “But what else are you doing? What’s stopping you from doing these books? I want them!”
Short answer is [...]

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Information Literacy: why? what? how?

Posted in Scottish Learning Festival, information literacy, investigations, transferable skills, tagged , , , , , on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Back in the early 1990s (I’m deliberately specifying the century, folks) at Robert Gordon’s, I read a lot of reports by Sharon Markless about “information skills” and thought how wonderful it was that children were actually being taught how to research.
Then I started working as a school librarian and I realised information skills were the latest thing, [...]

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Stone skimming

Posted in investigations, learning and teaching, tagged on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Was watching an old episode of “Coast” yesterday which was talking about stone skimming. The world record is apparently 38 bounces. 38! I’m always happy if the stone bounces once!
This morning, I looked up stone skimming to see if the record still existed (it does) and found out that the “World Stone Skimming Championships” took [...]

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School blog

Posted in Scottish Learning Festival, investigations, school website, tagged , on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Throughout SLF07, I’ve been impressed with the way that some schools are using blogs as communication tools for their communities. We’ve been discussing better methods of keeping in touch with parents and former pupils for a while now and blogging could definitely provide an answer.
So another project that I’m going to put in place on Tuesday is [...]

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Scribble

Posted in Scottish Learning Festival, investigations, librarians, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Back to SLF07 and one of the highlights – something I think I can use. The Scribble social networking tool on SCRAN might be just the thing for a project at work.
We’ve got an Advanced Higher English group coming from a number of schools, some pupils not able to come to every lesson and four [...]

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Daldorch

Posted in ASD, tagged , , on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

HB is just back from Daldorch and is well impressed. Daldorch House School is a residential school for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. It sits in eleven acres of Ayrshire woodland. Idyllic.
Today was the opening of the Senior Campus. There are now studio flats for the senior kids who can cope with their own space, but [...]

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Blogs and bans

Posted in blogs, learning and teaching, web 2.0, tagged , , , , on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ewan’s seminars are a call to blog! A message to education to find ways of using social networking technology, not ban it. At a later seminar with Sharon Markless she’s surprised to find the number of schools that block Bebo and the like. An Education Advisor, who has been on the end of several such comments all day by [...]

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The essential Librarians!

Posted in Scottish Learning Festival, librarians, tagged , , on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Congrats to Ewan McIntosh for the first mention of Librarians at SLF07, as “essential” because we “understand the web”. Sweet, especially given Ewan’s job title.
And thanks for showing us the Tonga Cipi Tao vs New Zealand haka. Fabulous.

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