Renfrewshire ICT Blog

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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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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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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If you work in Renfrewshire you can now book a place on the ICT showcase.   Log on to http://renfrewshire.cpdservice.net to book your space.  If you don’t work in Renfrewshire and want to join us then email me at gordon.mckinlay-ed@renfrewshire.gov.uk.  Find out more at http://www.ea.renfrewshire.sch.uk.
The showcase will take place on Tuesday the 20th of February from [...]

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I spent some time today preparing the presentation on GLOW  for use at our head teachers’ meetings over the next three weeks.  I had intended using something I had done before but the fact that my hard drive has died makes that difficult.  This will be an important chance for us to talk about the [...]

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So you didn’t get to SETT because you couldn’t get out of school.  Well, you don’t need to miss outcompletely.  LTS have put a huge selection of audio files on their website covering the seminar programme.  The RSS link allows you to subscribe to the podcast or you can download the files one by one [...]

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