John Connell points to a superb step-by-step guide on the classroom management issues for getting your class started blogging, from Al Upton.

It’s fun to see that the blogging system Learning and Teaching Scotland worked with East Lothian Council to build is now being used to document the LTS Consolarium’s PSP trial taking place in Campie Primary School. It shows once again how having the tools available, having the encouragement in place, and students and teachers who […]

 By rob
Last December I had the privilege of presenting some notions around the ‘Bebo Boomer’ at the Online Information Conference, the largest information professional conference in the world. I’ve got around to publishing this crammed 20 minutes of ideas, where I wanted to see if business and public service organisations were prepared to harness the […]

All this week you can take part in the Economist.com’s debate, considering the proposition ‘Social Networking: does it bring positive change to education?’
You can read the PRO, CON and MODERATOR statements, which affect the lot of every young person in Scotland, on the site. Ewan, of this parish, is leading the argument that social networking will […]

Two days in to the new year, and already my mind is reeling at the eduthinking going on. In particular, some diagrams from two different sources may help clarify some of the issues that I believe education faces this year.
The first post of the 2008 from David Warlick has him thinking about the differences between […]

… on a blog. Happy new Year to you all from Connected Live, including all those who filled up my phone memory this morning when the network finally came back on.
Point of note: more Christmas cards and New Year wishes received via mobile phone than on cardboard and paper than ever before, with more […]

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 […]

It was just a matter of time… the students have started really turning the tables on the teachers with the launch of a new blog dedicated to looking at education from a pupil’s point-of-view!
As some of you may know, I had the privilege of teaching Sean (The Bass Player) last year. Although not the most […]

Since launching earlier this week the Student 2.0 blog has really pulled in the crowds. Sean is one of the eight highly readable and thought-provoking students having his say on education, and he’s from Perth, Scotland! Until now he had been publishing his thoughts on his own blog, but is now getting an even greater […]

As the working week ends at MGS, I found myself present at the Teach-Meet Roadshow featuring digital video, online publishing, digital photography, animation & podcasting. I sampled the podcasting workshop.
An interesting site which David flagged up was find sounds from where little snippets of music and sound can be downloaded to spice up your podcast. […]