Yup, you’ll have to have a First Life between 2pm-6pm BST today as the whole of Second Life is undergoing some maintenance, so the Scottish Learning Festival in Second Life is also on hold until this evening.

I am here blogging live from the Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow. So far today, I have visited one Seminar and one Keynote. Derek Robertson ran the Seminar. During the course of the hour Derek enlightened us with his latest developments. Gordon McKinlay has written an excellent review of Derek"s Seminar here. I have also […]

It is about 7 am, I’ve been up for a while with pre-presentation nerves and am pretty excited about what the next couple of days will teach me
It is quite hard to focus on what I am going to be doing and yesterday’s prep found that I’ve double booked myself a couple of times today.
I’ve […]

There are many other ways of attending the Scottish Learning Festival. Here’s a reminder about one of the more original ones!
Don’t forget that the Scottish Learning Festival is also appearing in a Second Life near you! There is a dedicated island sponsored by Learn4Life that will be giving you yet another way of being at […]

It may now be called the Scottish Learning Festival and the word “technology” no longer features in its name but thanks to technology I’m already learning… and it’s still two days until the show opens!
For me, the learning started when I heard that this year the Festival would feature on Facebook, the social networking […]

With only a few days to go until the biggest Scottish Education Festival, there are many things to look forward to… But how can you get the best out of your time there? If you read on, I’ll try to give you some tips that I’ve picked up over the years.
Like many of us, I’ve […]

When you see your fellow teachers and the ‘big keynoters’ this week at the Scottish Learning Festival, have some sympathy.
This week sees my first outing for sharing what I’ve been up to since July at the BLC07 conference. I’m bushed, stressed, desperate not to misrepresent people, ideas or facts in the presentations, yet terrified (slightly) […]

Over on ScotEduBlogs news, posts about what bloggers will be doing at the Scottish Learning Festival are starting to popup. It’s got me thinking about what makes the Festival special for me.
Andrew tells us what he is doing and challenges us to do the same, Mr Hood and Stuart have responded and Ewan […]

I was meeting with one of our event organisers, Martin Jack, a few weeks ago to firm up what we would and wouldn’t be able to cover in our Connected Live coverage of the Scottish Learning Festival. With over 150 seminars to try and capture, along with keynotes and spotlights no-one wants to miss, we […]