Renfrewshire ICT Blog

We are at the Scottish Learning Festival this week.  Steven and I have been on the Renfrewshire stand in Hall 2 and Gordon has been keeping his own blog up to date at http://gordonsramblings.blogspot.com.
If you are at SLF then find us and say hello.

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Masterclass participants from Renfrewshire are meeting today in Abbey House along with those who have recently attended SETT as part of the Glow group.  The aim of the meeting is to reflect on SETT (including teachmeet06) this year and to look at plans for the coming session.  This include Glow training, ICT staff development opportunities [...]

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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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A number of folk who attended SETT last week were inspired to start thinking about using web 2.0 tools in the classroom as well as for professional development.  I am very keen to encourage teachers to think about using these tools for their own professional reflection and for enhancing the learning in the classroom.  One [...]

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This was my first time at SETT. I will definitely try to go back in future, even if it is just for the twilight sessions. I went to seminars on eTwinning, Blogging and Motivation within a Curriculum for Excellence. I heard keynote speeches made by Lady Marie Stubbs and Peter Peacock. I caught [...]

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One of the presentations at TeachMeet06 last Wednesday related to digital video editing on-line.  This is a slant on digital video that I have never thought of.  What do you do if you don’t have a Mac with iMovie running?  The answer may be editing vido on-line.  This wiki has been set up to explore [...]

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The first seminar I visited at SETT was with Ewan Mackintosh – Web 2.0 (or 5 things in the live web which will engage your learners and why blogging isn’t one of them). The five things were: 1. The web gives your students an audience for their work beyond just the teacher, their peers or [...]

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Started off at Ewan and David’s seminar on Creating Communities where Bebo was discussed. It is meant to be for over 13s but many children of 8 use it. The least used feature seems to be blogs with children preferring to make comments on other blogs, post pictures of their favourite bands [...]

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I didn’t manage to get live on Wednesday but today that is different.  Thanks most go to Promethian and LTS for funding the wireless access codes that allow me to blog from SETT. 
The major amount of my time over the past two days has been related to Glow.  Yesterday we were treated to a presentation [...]

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