Helped a colleague weed their stock today – it’s one of those necessary administrative jobs where it’s handy to have another person to share the tedium – and was struck by how our own interests dictated what was removed. She is very much an outdoors person, and instantly removed anything which showed outdated sportswear: at [...]
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To weed or not to weed
Posted in books, libraries, resources, tagged outdated stock, weeding on July 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Vikings!
Posted in information literacy, investigations, resources, thinking, tagged Vikings on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a great time with 1st year making Viking posters. We started yesterday by identifying evidence for various kinds of Viking activity (as opposed to just copying from the books). Today each group took one topic each and after a quick discussion, went off to raid the resources. Six groups, six posters: Raiders, Traders, Farmers, [...]
Water Week
Posted in education, imagination, learning and teaching, questioning, reading, resources, storytelling, thinking, transferable skills, tagged Eco Schools, water on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A blether with a colleague turned into a fully fledged plan for an Eco Schools cross-curricular Week of Water. It would obviously need to be ok’d by SMT, but nothing here is too difficult or costly and most of it ties in beautifully with what’s already in the curriculum. Just brainstorming, we came up with [...]
SLF09: CANVAS
Posted in education, enthusiasm, For education, ICT, literacy, reading, resources, websites, tagged Art & Design, CANVAS, Glow, SLF09 on September 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m in love. I’m so much in love. The virtual world created for CANVAS is just stunning. The kids will love it too. We’ll never be able to get them out. Enough rambling. CANVAS (Children’s Art at the National Virtual Arena for Scotland) is a virtual art gallery created to house artworks from our schools. [...]
Getting Glowing
Posted in ICT, learning and teaching, resources, tagged Glow on April 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Glow has had to take a back seat for a while, but I’ve had a chance to do a bit more exploring tonight. I’ve discovered some strange things have been happening. I’ve been allocated my SCA username / password, but wasn’t told about it. The new username also has my name spelt correctly, but I [...]
After Glow
Posted in ICT, information literacy, investigations, learning and teaching, librarians, reading, resources, tagged Catalyst, English department, Glow, History department, JFK assassination, scones, Scotland History/Mystery on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First day back, stinking headache. Too much time spent in small room, staring at a screen might be the reason. Could also be lack of scones. All day I’m seeing investigations and activities and wondering if they would be best served on Glow, or fine where they are. S2 History are still working on JFK, [...]
Glowing
Posted in enthusiasm, For education, ICT, information literacy, investigations, learning and teaching, librarians, resources, school website, tagged Catalyst, Glow, information literacy, JFK assassination, mentoring, PSHE on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First day training as a Glow Mentor and I’m confused. Why are there no scones? In-service without scones just isn’t the done thing! Also, what’s the role of the website, if we’re all on the intranet? I see roles for both, it’s just figuring out what’s to go where, and what needs duplicated, and so [...]
Could you hand me a brick wall, please?
Posted in enthusiasm, information literacy, inspiration, investigations, learning and teaching, librarians, libraries, professionalism, resources, thinking, tagged brick wall, Filamentality, mindmaps, students on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I spoke to the students about how to get the best out of their school library – how to help the Librarian, what to expect in return, not forgetting “we are all individuals“. I thought my mindmap of notes just required printing, but instead it was nowhere to be seen. And I knew [...]
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