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

  Learning and Teaching Scotland, East Lothian Council and some bloke called McIntosh feature in a story in today's Scotsman newspaper, Employers Bring Blogs In From The Dark [free registration required to read]. It's great to see some national press coverage of what has been developing in Scotland's social media landscape. It's even better that

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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

  Learning and Teaching Scotland, East Lothian Council and some bloke called McIntosh feature in a story in today's Scotsman newspaper, Employers Bring Blogs In From The Dark [free registration required to read]. It's great to see some national press coverage of what has been developing in Scotland's social media landscape. It's even better that

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• In The Wild @Channel 4: Coming to Glasgow

  Published: August 9, 2007, 7:08 am

  Tags: Channel4, Ltsfutures, Newcon, Scotlearnfest07, In The Wild, Learning Teaching Scotland, Channel 4, Channel Four, Innovation, Ltscotland, Scotlearnfest07, Sett, Youth

  I'm over the moon that Channel 4 have decided to bring the In The Wild event to Glasgow, as a fringe event to this year's Scottish Learning Festival. The last one in London was a huge success, a sell-out, with plenty of folk wishing they had made it. Now's your chance to take part! The afternoon, on September 19th, is being developed in

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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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• 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

  Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) have started to plot where schools are using Google Maps in the national directory, like this example of Abbeyhill Primary. It should not only help visitors to the schools, but also probationers wondering where they've been sent, providing valuable official information next to the map. So far the 'A's and

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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

  The best way to follow what's happening at the Scottish Learning Festival this week might very well be through Connected Live, the new rolling education news site for Connected magazine, from Learning and Teaching Scotland. It's just gone live this morning and, I think, it's looking pretty damned good. Small note to self: 09.12am: the service

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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

  A workshop title like that is bound to attract a few crowds, but most people's perceptions of games and gaming have more to do with the arcade or shoot-em-ups that they experienced when they were teens. How wrong (happily) could they be. In a few workshops over the past few weeks I've been looking at how certain games are incredibly effective

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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

  A workshop title like that is bound to attract a few crowds, but most people's perceptions of games and gaming have more to do with the arcade or shoot-em-ups that they experienced when they were teens. How wrong (happily) could they be. In a few workshops over the past few weeks I've been looking at how certain games are incredibly effective at

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• Don't let the Empire strike back on our curriculum

  Published: May 30, 2008, 6:12 am

  Tags: Creativity, Curriculum, Ltsfutures, Curriculum For Excellence, Don Ledingham, Ltscotland, Nesta, Richard Reeves, Scotsman

  "In the end, the debates about structures and tests are a sideshow. The challenge is to enable young people to develop the characteristics, motivation and attitudes necessary to support lifelong learning. Those who succeed in the labour market of the future will be those with a self-development mindset and character. Three attributes are

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