The ScotEduBlogs site is dear to my heart. An opensource effort by teachers in Scotland to aggregate and redistribute the posting by Scottish educational blogger of all shapes, ages and sizes ScotEduBlogs has become an more than every day read for me.
At the Scottish learning Festival side dish TeachMeet07 4th Edition I made a plea […]

These are the slides I used at TeachMeetPerth Last week. You can see the images on a Flickr set.
I first got the idea for OpensourceCPD from TeachMeet at the Scottish Learning Festival in 2007 [you can see some pictures here]. Ollie Bray is widely quoted as saying that TeachMeet was his best Continuing Professional Development […]

Have you ever seen a theremin played outside Bill Bailleyesque comedy? Let me recommend this short video featuring Pamelia Kurstin.
Lest you fear that the timbre is going to be a little samey throughout, try to hang on until at least 2:45 when the sound changes dramatically. At 14:15 there is a lovely arrangement of Billy […]

My esteemed colleague across the water Dr. James Frankel, flagged up an interesting story from the NY Times which featured a mobile with a ring tone of such high frequency that people over the age of 30 were unlikely to hear it. This way young owners of the phone could get away with having their […]

We previewed the Asus EeePC last month, a tiny computer which is cheap enough for most areas to buy in en masse. They’ve since sold out until January! Bill Kerr carries a great analysis between it and its closest competitor, the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ machine which has been designed for use in the Third […]

As I’ve mentioned before I post a set of interesting links onto LTS’s Masterclass community every week or so. Masterclass is still looking for new members. I thought that the links I just posted there give a fair flavour of what is going on in some of the educational blogosphere and that I might share […]

The Edublog Awards are probably the closest thing we have in the Edublogosphere to an “Oscar” ceremony, but I wonder if I’m the only one thinking that there is something missing? What I want to know is, why there aren’t categories for pupil entries… and is it time to start a separate Awards ceremony for […]

In this video snippet see how some principals and headteachers-to-be are learning the skills on the job.Â
You can view this video below or by visiting the Connected Live Blip.TV Channel.

Every year the Scottish Learning Festival welcomes visitors from across the world. What is in it for guests from outside Scotland?
You can see the video below or on the Blip.TV Channel.