Neil Winton’s wikis

Mr Winton holds a place dear in my heart for sending a comment to my new infant blog – a message from someone I didn’t actually know! 
Anyway, his presentation on wikis was exciting and intriguing and I must apologise for my phone going off: I thought it was on silent alert (see Panic below). Really sorry.
The wikis as used at Perth Academy show the [...]

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Panic at the Science Centre

£4.50 for parking? I’d get the train, except I’ve got to be at the SECC for 9.30. So, I’ve decided to park at the Science Centre, which is marginally quicker to reach (and slightly cheaper), plus I get my choice of bridges on which to walk over the Clyde. Excellent idea (I love bridges).
Except… no wallet. Nowhere [...]

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IL skills

LTS are about to publish a whole pile of Information Literacy help and it looks pretty good. Bit confusing to hear it refered to as “Information and Critical Literacy” but I’m adaptable. Sadly though, although the posters and information looks really helpful, it’s still all very worksheet based, wordy and a bit worthy.
Where’s the relevance? Where’s [...]

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MIE

Moving Image Education – which is not media studies in case you were thinking that. MIE is the use of moving images as a tool in our education arsenal, simple as that. I came away from this seminar intrigued, but still a bit confused. Unfortunately I had to dive away to the last seminar or [...]

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I Sea … except I can’t

Sitting having a cup of tea, my eyes were continually drawn to a collection of what appeared to be model boats on one of the stands. On investigating I discovered that this was the outcome of “I Sea”, an interdisciplinary project between the Scottish Maritime Museum and S2 at Irvine Royal Academy, involving English, Art [...]

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SLF08 cont.. Missed but linked

An unusual Festival for me because I missed so many keynotes and seminars, which are my favourite part of the conference. For the keynotes, this was deliberate. I’d rather watch them online because I keep yawning in the Armadillo, and it looks rude. Not on purpose you understand: I’m just not used to listening non-interactively [...]

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It all starts with a railing

Started off with a fabulous presentation by the Heritage Education Forum along with a fabulous inspirer of young minds, Mairi MacIver, and some of the minds in question (I am always in awe of kids speaking at the Festival.)
Taking a simple concept and developing it into a cross-curricular extravaganza is my bread and butter – except [...]

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Scottish Learning Festival 2008

SLF time again – YES!
I love this Festival. It comes along at exactly the right time. You’ve just realised that the HUGE pile of work accomplished in the holidays is miniscule in relation to what has stil to be done; the budget needs spent soon; the LRC timetable is becoming existential (or possibly nihilist); and the gravity [...]

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To lead or not to lead?

I was told by a colleague during the week that the job of Librarian meant supporting learning and teaching, not leading.
Interesting. As the only Librarian in schools, we can often be the only one trained /familiar with certain tasks (and more often the only ones who know what we’re talking about :->). Most notably, we’re the only library [...]

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The power of touch and where to find it

I was helping my son with his homework last night. He had to add up the value of the coins pictured and he was having a bit of trouble. On a whim, I got out some change and let him add the coins instead, and was stunned by the difference. He was instantly able to add the sums in his [...]

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