I have details of my appointment with Death.
According to Death Clock, it is 18 Feb 2051, 9 days short of my 92nd birthday and 8 years short of receiving a congratulatory hologram from the President. Still, it"s a good innings. The details required for the calculation are so few (DoB, Gender, BMI, Smoker/Non-smoker and Optimist/Pessimist/Sadist) […]

Three of the Glow Mentors from Clackmannanshire explain what they’ve been doing at Scottish Learning Festival and the seminars, keynotes and networking opportunities they have enjoyed.
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Morna Crombie from Curriculum for Excellence and pupils from St Stephen’s Primary School in Dalmuir in Clydebank demonstrate interdisciplinary learning with a short drama combining food and health, physical activity and maths.
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Leon Cych, who’s been helping us with Connected Live’s Second Life conference space, has written up a really helpful guide for those wanting to view bonus videos and listen to podcasts in our Second Life emporium.
You’ll need to make sure that you’ve already signed up and downloaded the Second Life application to your computer, but […]

A pupil from Doune Primary School, explains how the pupils act a junior tour guides at Doune Castle to guide other school children round the castle and explain its history. They dress in medieval costume and have medieval weapons to shwo the visitors.
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A chat with pupils and teachers from Baldragon Academy in Dundee, which is hosting this year’s BBC Soundtown radio studio, and who were there to hear David Robertson from the BBC talk about the media industry.
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Aberdeenshire is engaging with gaming in education as a means of not only engaging children, but making a Curriculum for Excellence happen for real.
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An interview with June McGregor from the Scottish Music Centre, who talks about the Centre’s online composition chart which helps young people aged from 12-years-old share their own compositions in any genre with the rest of the world, and the other work of the Centre in promoting Scottish music.
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If you’re reading this, the chances are you’re already pretty sold on the potential of new web technologies in education. But how did that happen?
At last week’s Scottish Learning Festival I enjoyed hearing from John Johnston, at his talk Audience, Purpose and Conversation: the World Wide Display Wall, about how he got hooked. […]

Professor Stephen Heppell has been looking into the horizon with his feet on the ground for many years, and his inspirational keynote speech about where Scotland stands to gain educationally in its horizons is now live on the SLF website. There’s also a great video interview with him which takes you deeper into some of […]