Jim in The Highlands was quick to note Channel 4’s move from £6m per year on educational television programming to a large part of £6m per year on online educational programming. Is educational TV dead on C4? Not quite, but it’s certainly undergone some serious surgery to make it recognisable to a 2008 teen. Channel […]

How many epiphanies are you allowed in a lifetime? Assuming that the answer is - as many as you’re prepared to let in - then, are they likely to have anything in common?
I’d say that the common factor in all those moments when I was struck by something so meaningful that it should really have […]

An interesting debate about the following anecdote, cited from Jimmy Wales’, founder of Wikipedia, keynote earlier this week, has started over on edu.blogs.com: does this anecdote merely serve to bolster one argument over another, or does it present a common sense solution? Answers on a postcard:
Think of the last restaurant you went to. Did you […]

At this time of year letters are issued to the parents of successful applicants for guitar tuition, including information on the price of recommended guitars. The quick way to do this is to open the letter of the previous year, change any necessary details and re-save under a new name. The resultant digital trail has […]

Some days you think you’ve nothing to say and then you chance upon an idea and off you go. I read with interest a new blog by a former depute whom I knew at Knox. Now at Liberton High School, Donald McDonald has launched Head’s Blog.
I was struck in this post by the idea that […]

Last year I flagged up a great resource for pupils and teachers of Music put together under the auspices of Learning & Teaching Scotland. At the time, I was struck by the A - Z Dictionary of concepts with audio samples. However, there is much more than I had realised on offer e.g. short essays […]

Our gaming for learning guru, Derek Robertson, has temporarily become LTS’s man in Singapore, pictured here catching up on some Christmas shopping. He’s earned a break, though, having taken some of Scotland’s gaming for learning work to the other side of the planet for the large ICET Conference and Exhibition.
As well as representing LTS, Derek’s […]

Pictures coming through from Friday night’s CIPR Magazine Awards, revealing that LTS’s flagship Connected Magazine has won a Silver Award in the Best Magazine or Newspaper category. Congrats to the print magazine team at LTS and our partners at White Light Media. I wonder what the future holds as Connected Live develops the magazine 24/7 […]

Over on the MFLE blog we see that this languages project to support Modern Languages teachers in Scotland has won a special mention in the UK’s eLearning Awards. I was lucky enough to be invited down to Thursday’s awards night as Development Officer of the site, along with Annelie Carmichael, the site’s Content Editor form […]

Today I received an email from the RSA alerting me to an interesting event which I simply can’t attend. Why do I enlist for newletters from organisations 400 miles away? The main reason is to remind me to keep in touch with what these interesting organisations are doing. By visiting the Index of audio lectures […]