This week the blog posts about teachers’ return to school have been flying, but few teachers will have that first hard week more in perspective than Caroline Gibson, who spent her holidays working in Malawi with the Global Teachers Programme.
During her adventures she managed to keep an online diary of her learning, the new experiences, […]

Connected 21 is now online with articles and features on literacy, Gaelic, PE and computer games.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/connected/articles/21/index.asp

Between June 9-13 you have the opportunity to help young poets from Georgia and Glasgow’s East End with their poetry. In On The Street Where You Live, young poets will write about their neighbourhoods (or should that be neighborhoods?), and you are invited to leave your two stars and a wish comments to help them […]

Caroline Gibson is sharing her preparations before departing in three weeks for a summer of teaching in Malawi, from how to communicate in the native tongue to working out the kind of classroom equipment you need to play Scottish music cassettes when there is very little or no electricity.
Living with a host family, Caroline is […]

Want to be a better teacher? Want to know what’s really going on? Then you’d better be prepared to share…
Dean Shareski has just posted a really interesting presentation about the importance of sharing on Slideshare. As well as giving a great insight into why he shares as much as he does (and it’s a lot!), […]

Sometimes it’s hard for educators to see why anyone would be interested in what they are doing, how they are teaching and what their philosophy behind learning is. For Paul Park, a Saskatchewan teacher sent to Afghanistan with the Canadian forces, blogging for his students and family must seem an obvious thing to do.
This blog […]

Just last week I was introduced to Ben Saunders, who responded with a courteous and short email along the lines of: “I’m a little busy at the moment but would love to meet up for a pint.” He was, in fact, four days away from starting his 30-day dash to North Pole. Alone.
An attempt to […]

Here is the full transcript of the interview with Kay Livingston, Head of International Education at LTS, as part of the Broaden Your Horizons story in Issue 20 of Connected magazine. There are also plenty of Chinese culture and language links on the MFLE website:

Chinese language special
Teaching Chinese at St George’s School for Girls
What it’s […]

John Johnston, Scottish blogger and primary educator extraordinaire, is blogging and video-conferencing with his class from Georgia, USA, to mark the beginning of yet another collaboration with Carol Fuller, a teacher met through the serendipity of Musselburgh Grammar’s senior school Auschwitz blogging project four years ago, then a Sandaig-USA theatre project.
John’s moblogging the whole trip, […]

It’s not often you get a glimpse into - far less a listen to - pre-history. Michael Wood’s The Story of India (BBC4 last night - sadly not available on iPlayer) visited Brahmin priests in Kerala taking young trainees through vocal preparations for a 12-day celebration of Agni - the god of fire.
The prayers being […]