Scotsman newspaper: Education has whole-heartedly embraced blogging

Published: July 27, 2007, 5:11 am

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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 the pivotal role the education sector has taken in pushing this new way of thinking and working is brought to the fore:The education sector appears to have whole-heartedly embraced blogging. Ewan McIntosh, a teacher and new technologies specialist for East Lothian Council and Learning 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 be

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