Islay High Open Day
Yesterday I went to the Islay ICT: ICT Open Day Islay High School is one of the Schools of Ambition and is well know for its innovative changes to school organisation and use of ict. I had a great day...
View ArticleOpenSourceCPD – Picnik – ScreenFlow
I have been working on OpenSourceCPD a bit recently. Mostly working on the On-site Cpd Opportunities. Nearly everything is labelled first draft being work in progress but I guess that is the beauty of...
View ArticleTeachMeet 10 East Lothian
On Thursday I went over to the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick for TeachMeet 10 East Lothian. The Sea Bird Centre was a great venue and what I cold see of North Berwick made me think it might...
View ArticleEDUtalk at the Scottish Learning Festival
Sharing Curriculum Change through the EDUtalk Project A bit of a mouthful, but this is the title of our Scottish Learning Festival Seminar. David Noble and myself will be running a seminar: Sharing...
View ArticleTMSLF2010 and the future of TeachMeet
On Wednesday evening I went along to TeachMeet and the TeachEat that follows. I’ve been lucky enough to have watched TeachMeets evolve (at least in Scotland, not made it out of the country yet) and...
View ArticleEdutalk at Teachmeet Strathclyde
Last night I went along to Teachmeet Strathclyde at Jordanhill college, I had signed up a couple of days before and stuck my name down to talk about edutalk.cc. I noticed there were nearly 70 folk...
View ArticleThe Impact of TeachMeet
TeachMeet has been shortlisted for a Naace ICT Impact Awards. This is in the Collaborative group project, In recognition of the way this radical form of CPD is transformative. For one reason or...
View ArticleConnected CPD – Don’t fence me in
Starlings roosting by Steven C Wilson Attribution-NoDerivs License I’ve written several version of this post now, thinking about blogging, e-portfolios and CPD I am not particularly happy about this...
View ArticleThe Headless Zone #DS106
DS106, digital storytelling 106: is an open, online course that happens at various times throughout the year at the University of Mary Washington, but you can join in whenever you like and leave...
View ArticleWalk into some free CPD
At the end of this month the EduWiki Conference 2014 (Wikimedia UK ) comes to Edinburgh. I posted a couple of weeks ago about the TeachMeet we are trying to organise in the evening TeachMeet EduWiki,...
View ArticleIs Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development?
@audreywatters : Despite all the pushes to “bring Twitter to the classroom” and calls to have Twitter “replace traditional professional development,” I’m less and less convinced that’s a good idea — or...
View ArticleTwitter, cpd, actor-network theory and flânerie
“BEST. PD. EVER!” Some teachers make bold claims for the way that Twitter supports their professional development, yet research into this area is rather limited. This study sought to gain a better...
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Skype just asked me to rate my call with @IaninSheffield I didn’t notice any audio glitches but may have missed then as Ian was fascinating talking about his PHD research on twitter use by teachers. If...
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