Renfrewshire ICT Blog

You will be aware of the work of Professor Tim Brighouse through the two books issued to all head teachers over the last couple of years. The more recent book “How Successful Head Teachers Survive and Thrive” was issued to all schools at the start of this term. Professor Brighouse is a non executive director [...]

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Last night saw the GLOW launch in Renfrewshire at Gleniffer High School. About 250 people with representation from most schools in Renfrewshire attended the event. We heard from Alan Wait from Learning Curve about the importance of digital literacy in the 21st century. Paul Smyth gave a first live glimpse of some of what GLOW [...]

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A busy first week of the new session was dominated by an important meeting with representatives of the Glow national team. The training model which we have proposed for the implementation of Glow in Renfrewshire has been accepted and discussion is now focussing on the content and timing of the training we will deliver [...]

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Since I took over my new post as acting senior adviser I have not had much time to do anything with the ICT blog.  I am now taking matters in hand.  Our new staff tutor, Steven Wilson, is about to take it over so that schools in Renfrewshire can stay up to date with what [...]

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We have just had two days of schools digital video festivals @ Lapwing Lodge. Pupils from 12 schools have come together to create, from scratch, there own film. The aim is that they use the skills they have learned back in their own school. The days were led by Oscar Stringer and supported by Ann [...]

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Today Computing and Business Studies teachers from Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire met together at the Erskine Bridge Hotel to learn about developments in a curriculum for excellence. 
There were three sessions in the day.  Bernard McLeary, the chief executive of LTS gave the keynote address highlighting the major developments and timelines for the programme. 

Joyce Henderson [...]

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Tomorrow is one of our joint curriculum for excellence seminars with Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire.  The seminar is aimed at Computing and Business Studies teachers from across the three authorities and will take place at the Erskine Bridge Hotel.  In the morning, Bernard McLeary of LTS will give the keynote address followed by a curricular [...]

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Many thanks go to everyone involved in setting up and running last night’s ICT showcase.  We had 200 teachers plus a number of other in attendance.  David Muir and Ewan McIntosh gave a brilliant and stimulating presentation on some possible uses of web 2.0 in learning.    The previous posts give some of the detail.
Over the [...]

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It’s Monday morning and I have checked the final figures for the ICT Showcase on Tuesday evening.  We have 180 teachers booked with another 20 or so guests including parents and some folks from outwith Renfrewshire.  All the final details should be in place.  The evening will be videoed so we can create a DVD [...]

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We had a Masterclass training today in Abbey House.  Oscar Stringer was here and took everyone through a series of tasks and activities learning how to create enhanced podcasts using GarageBand on the Macintosh.
I was at the workshop for some of the day and have blogged what I was at on my blogger account.  I [...]

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