Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Keeping education moving in a war zone

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Blc07, Digital Divide, Glowscotland, Blc07, Glowscotland, Israel

  Har V'Gai school is set in the midst of the border with Lebanon, and owned by 12 villages. 1200 students attend, half from rural settings and half from the cities. Despite learning in a long-term, protracted period of crisis learning has continued to flourish. Dr James Backer explains how. The Israeli youth is an incredibly connected one, with

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• TeachMeet07 - 4th Edition of the ScotEduBlogs meetup

  Published: August 9, 2007, 7:42 am

  Tags: Channel4, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Scotlearnfest07, Edubuzz, Teachmeet07, Glasgow Science Centre, Channel 4, Channel Four, Ltscotland, Scotedublogs, Scotlearnfest07, Teachmeet, Unconference

  Glasgow Science Centre    Originally uploaded by krmuir TeachMeet07, the 4th Edition of the UK's biggest teaching and learning unconference, will take place in its most impressive, futuristic venue yet: September 19th, from 6.30pm at the Glasgow Science Centre [map]. Thanks to Channel 4 Education and New Media, who are

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• Freeing up educational data

  Published: August 18, 2007, 7:53 am

  Tags: Giving Information, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Weblogs, Api, Google Maps, Ltsfutures, Scotedublogs

  Stuart Meldrum had a great idea back in April. When new Scottish teachers are guaranteed a job in any one of five chosen Local Authorities you can still end up anywhere from the furthest flung island to the centre of the Capital. What was needed was a quick way to see exactly how far you could end up having to move. Cue Google Maps and some

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• Collaborative creatives and the future of education

  Published: August 30, 2007, 7:34 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Funding, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Andy Polaine, Creative Waves, The Lighthouse, Urban Learning Space, Australia, Cofa, Creativity, Education, Glasgow, Nsw, Omnium

  Andy Polaine set the scene with the importance of collaborative design and creativity in this new age, and now turns his attention to how education can innovate in a future we cannot determine. 'Slime mould and suburbs'There are lots of small things being developed independently on the web that are becoming one, much in the same way as slime

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• Creative Collaboration

  Published: August 30, 2007, 6:03 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Creativity, Digital Image, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Etwinning, Andy Polaine, Creative Waves, The Lighthouse, Urban Learning Space, Australia, Cofa, Creativity, Education, Glasgow, Nsw, Omnium

  We've moved from an era where the designer's exclusivity over design is being overtaken by the expression and worth of a designer's individuality being seen within a collaborative context, says Andy Polaine at the Urban Learning Space Seminars in Glasgow. Andy Polaine's Omnium Research Group at the College of Fine Arts in New South Wales,

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• Digital Holidaymakers

  Published: September 30, 2007, 6:39 pm

  Tags: Glowscotland, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Ulearn07, Curriculum For Excellence, Core Education, Acfe, Glowscotland, New Technologies, Scottish Education, Ulearn07

  Jings, I wish I had come up with this one. "Digital Holidaymakers". AB reports on Maggie Irving's addition to Prensky's rather tired and simplistic notion of "digital immigrants" and "digital natives", the 'them and us' that has offered the lazy, the ignorant and the technophobe a way out of just past the technology (I have some sympathy for

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• The national education agency: making efforts to connect(ed)

  Published: October 31, 2007, 7:51 am

  Tags: Curriculum, Glowscotland, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Scotlearnfest07, Teachmeet07, C4inthewild, Connected, Connected Live, Education, Magazine, Scotlearnfest07, Technology

  At Learning and Teaching Scotland one of my main roles has been trying to encourage as many avenues as possible to communicate with teachers, parents, learners, civil servants, whoever might have interest in what we do. Whether this was actually in my job description at first, I don't know :-) What I wonder is: do people want to communicate

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• How will we firefight when there's no water left?

  Published: November 17, 2007, 9:27 am

  Tags: Glowscotland, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Media Literacy, Media Literacy

  Teacher Trauma On Twitter    Originally uploaded by Edublogger Gordon has some Thoughts on Filtering which sets out why filtering 'unacceptable' websites is so difficult. I can't help feel, though, that he's mistitled his post, and that the attitude which is prevalent in school systems around the world still aims to the

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• A different kind of personalisation: let's learn from our kids

  Published: November 20, 2007, 5:02 am

  Tags: Creativity, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures

  When adults sit down to design a VLE, intranet or new website with some degree of user interaction, the notion of personalisation, if it's acknowledged at all, is often restricted to a palette of possible templates, the ability to add a photo or MP3, or perhaps a 'flashbox' la Bebo, where users can import some content from a photo- or

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• CPD Reflect for Glow: the national intranet gets a-bloggin'

  Published: November 27, 2007, 2:22 am

  Tags: Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Weblogs, Cpd

  About a year ago I was helping Con Morris, a colleague working on the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) part of the LTS Online Service and the national intranet Glow, trying to point out why a blog was a valuable source of CPD for both the writer and the readers. A year on, and Con is not only a great blogger, but the CPDReflect

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• The future of video conferencing: asychronous communication

  Published: January 28, 2008, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Communication Tools, Digital Video Animation, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Mobile

  As a languages teacher video-conferencing was always a technology that I had wanted to exploit, but until recently we've never had the bandwidth or plentiful, cheap webcams to consider it something any teacher could do. Glow, Scotland's national intranet, makes it even easier to connect through video-conferencing by providing every learner and

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• The future of video conferencing: asychronous communication

  Published: January 28, 2008, 5:14 pm

  Tags: Communication Tools, Digital Video Animation, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Mobile

  As a languages teacher video-conferencing was always a technology that I had wanted to exploit, but until recently we've never had the bandwidth or plentiful, cheap webcams to consider it something any teacher could do. Glow, Scotland's national intranet, makes it even easier to connect through video-conferencing by providing every learner and

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• Online Communities: Conversational design

  Published: February 7, 2008, 3:18 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Communication Tools, Glowscotland, Lift08, Ltsfutures, Lift08

  I'm really struggling with the overwhelming desire to sleep after a copious serving of carbs at lunch and more jetlag kicking in. Thankfully, I don't feel under too much pressure to report back on this superb rundown of what features make online communities tick. If you run, facilitate or are thinking of creating an online community then Pedro's

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• Community-building - fine, but why should I?

  Published: March 3, 2008, 7:15 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Communication Tools, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures

  John Connell puts forward some sound reasonings behind why a national intranet like Glow is still needed in 2008, even with the permeation of free, accessible collaborative or community tools such as Skype. In his closing comment on the post he points out that, for him, the safety aspect of having everyone authenticated as a bona fide student or

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• Scotland's Literacy: true excellence for the 21st Century

  Published: February 22, 2008, 6:20 am

  Tags: Audience, Collaborative Learning, Curriculum, Digital Divide, Gaming, Glowscotland, Languages, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Media Literacy, Weblogs

  Those long-awaited outcomes for Literacy in Scotland's new Curriculum for Excellence are released today by Learning and Teaching Scotland for consultation. At first glance you may be disappointed with what appears to be a rather narrow definition of literacy: no mention of 'new literacies', a phrase that emanates nearly exclusively from my US

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