Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Scotsman newspaper: Education has whole-heartedly embraced blogging

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:12 am

  Tags: Communication Tools, Ltsfutures, Scotlearnfest07, World Of Ewan, Edubuzz, Blogging, Business, Edubuzz, Lts, Ltscotland, Marketing, Press, Scotsman, Lts

  and Teaching Scotland (LTS), describes part of his job as getting employees in the Scottish education sector blogging. "When I arrived, there were maybe 20 employees at East Lothian blogging about their working day, but now they've got more than 350 staff doing it," he says. "Some of them blog in their free time but most of them will also

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• Scotsman newspaper: Education has whole-heartedly embraced blogging

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:11 am

  Tags: Communication Tools, Ltsfutures, Scotlearnfest07, World Of Ewan, Edubuzz, Blogging, Business, Edubuzz, Lts, Ltscotland, Marketing, Press, Scotsman

  and Teaching Scotland (LTS), describes part of his job as getting employees in the Scottish education sector blogging. "When I arrived, there were maybe 20 employees at East Lothian blogging about their working day, but now they've got more than 350 staff doing it," he says. "Some of them blog in their free time but most of

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• UK Education establishment is getting it

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Ltsfutures, Mobile, Rss, British Council, Learning Teaching Scotland, Tarig Krim, Lts, Ltscotland, Netvibes

  You know the efforts of thousands are paying off when Learning and Teaching Scotland, the education agency in Scotland, feature in their news roundup a report by the British Council on why everyone really should start reading their news, social network and blog information through Netvibes. A great thumbs up from the Establishment for Tariq.

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• Google Maps to help locate Scottish schools

  Published: September 6, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Digital Image, Giving Information, Ltsfutures, Learning Teaching Scotland, Free Our Data, Google Maps, Latitude, Longitude, Lts, Ltscotland, Postcodes, Lts

  goes into the Government-LTS project, Scottish Schools Online, which gives LTS a fighting chance of keeping a Google Map up-to-date. Ideally we would be able to release that original KML file and let people play around with it, something I personally would love to see. But there are some really practical and rather serious reasons why we

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• Want to share your ScotLearnFest07 thoughts via mobile?

  Published: September 13, 2007, 6:02 am

  Tags: Mobile, Scotlearnfest07, Connectedlive, Lts, Ltscotland, Scotlearnfest07, Twitter

  How would you like to share your thoughts with thousands of Scottish teachers on the cool things you find at the Scottish Learning Festival in the SECC, or online? Connected Live, the new service from Learning and Teaching Scotland launching this Monday, is all about giving more voice to people in education, including those who maybe haven't

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• When state sector gets into UGC: Connected Live is, well, live!

  Published: September 18, 2007, 4:14 am

  Tags: Digital Video Animation, Ltsfutures, Scotlearnfest07, Weblogs, Teachmeet07, C4inthewild, Connectedlive, Lts, Ltscotland, Scotlearnfest07

  of the Festival, while our LTSers will be recording more sessions than ever in full audio podcasts, forty in all. Over the coming months we'll add to that with summary interviews with over 60 speakers. We'll also have our guest bloggers writing the occasional post to keep you up-to-date on the seminars you weren't able to make, and the

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• Connected Live sums up the Festival

  Published: September 26, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Digital Video Animation, Ltsfutures, Podcasting, Scotlearnfest07, Weblogs, Teachmeet07, Learning Teaching Scotland, Connected, Connectedlive, Lts, Scotlearnfest07, Secondlife

  I've been finding LTS's new web project, Connected Live, quite a challenge to help bring together, but its coverage of the Scottish Learning Festival both last week and now is second-to-none, thanks to the wide range of interesting folk writing for the main blog, the Tartan Podcaster's superb mini podcasts, and some great captures from the film

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• Thinking out of the (x)Box: Gaming to expand horizons in creative writing

  Published: October 10, 2007, 10:59 pm

  Tags: Creativity, Gaming, Weblogs, Wiki, Learning Teaching Scotland, Consolarium, Consoles, Dr Kawashima, Games, Gaming, Lts, Ltscotland, Myst, Nintendo Ds, Riven, Samorost, Xbox

  Kawashima's Game Training. LTS's Derek Robertson has undertaken some small-scale case study work which revealed, in this example at least, some increase in attainment, but, more importantly, a great motivation on the part of students to undertake mathematics drills using the game. It's the kind of research that would be interesting to model on

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• MFLE: Shortlisted for eLearning awards

  Published: October 11, 2007, 4:22 am

  Tags: Languages, Ltsfutures, Learning Teaching Scotland, Awards, Elearning, Elearning Age Awards, Lts, Mfle

  stop. My first project for LTS is up for a top prize at the UK eLearning Awards. The Modern Foreign Languages Environment, which I helped redefine and rebuild two years ago and which, along with Content Editor supremo Annelie Carmichael, the superb technical team at LTS and Scottish CILT, I continue to manage, has been shortlisted for the

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• MFLE: Shortlisted for eLearning awards

  Published: October 11, 2007, 4:18 am

  Tags: Languages, Ltsfutures, Learning Teaching Scotland, Awards, Elearning, Elearning Age Awards, Lts, Mfle

  stop. My first project for LTS is up for a top prize at the UK eLearning Awards. The Modern Foreign Languages Environment, which I helped redefine and rebuild two years ago and which, along with Content Editor supremo Annelie Carmichael, the superb technical team at LTS and Scottish CILT, I continue to manage, has been shortlisted for the UK's

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• Thinking out of the (x)Box: Gaming to expand horizons in creative writing

  Published: October 10, 2007, 10:33 pm

  Tags: Creativity, Gaming, Weblogs, Wiki, Learning Teaching Scotland, Consolarium, Consoles, Dr Kawashima, Games, Gaming, Lts, Ltscotland, Myst, Nintendo Ds, Riven, Samorost, Xbox

  Kawashima's Game Training. LTS's Derek Robertson has undertaken some small-scale case study work which revealed, in this example at least, some increase in attainment, but, more importantly, a great motivation on the part of students to undertake mathematics drills using the game. It's the kind of research that would be interesting to model on

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• Asus EeePC: take a peek inside...

  Published: November 22, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Ltsfutures, Asuseeepc, Connected, Connected Live, Handheld Learning, Laptop, Learning And Teaching Scotland, Lts, Technology

  Over at Connected Live we've posted a video of our tour around the magic Asus EeePC, which I talked about on Monday. Go over and have a peek at what might be in store in a school near you (think social media, ultra portable, wifi-enabled and open source technology...)

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• From video trials to the real deal: getting the public service to Hollywood

  Published: December 7, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Digital Video Animation, Ltsfutures, Vlogging, Connected Live, Learning And Teaching Scotland, Lts

  revolution has taken hold at LTS, with Learning about Learning and Journey To Excellence featuring some world class speakers and thought-leaders speaking - for free - about their thoughts on where we could go. It's not quite YouTube, but using our own LTS flash video player. Hopefully, given that our content is likely to be relevant to

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• OECD's pat on the back for Scotland's education

  Published: December 12, 2007, 4:20 am

  Tags: Assessment, Learning And Teaching Scotland, Scottish Education, Edubuzz, Lts, Oecd, Pisa

  our school'. In our work at LTS we continue to try to give more autonomy to teachers to get their job done in ever more effective ways. The OECD agrees:Scotland consistently performs at a very high standard in OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and has one of the most equitable school systems in the OECD. These

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• OECD's pat on the back for Scotland's education

  Published: December 12, 2007, 4:20 am

  Tags: Assessment, Learning And Teaching Scotland, Scottish Education, Edubuzz, Lts, Oecd

  our school'. In our work at LTS we continue to try to give more autonomy to teachers to get their job done in ever more effective ways. The OECD agrees:Scotland consistently performs at a very high standard in OECD???s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and has one of the most equitable school systems in the OECD. These

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