Sometimes simple ideas are the best. Amid all the high tech and new ideas I saw at the conference a very simple and yet very effective idea in relation to meeting the teachers learning intentions. Nur Ilyana was one of many teachers from Singapore at the conference whose work in classrooms had been recognised by […]

One of the anticipated highlights of the conference was the presentation by Professor Angeline Khoo from NIE in Singapore. Her presentation was called Active Learning through Gaming. It seems that Professor Khoo is a World of Warcraft (WoW) player and the session was advertised as follows:
Looking back to the 24th of July, 2007, World of […]

I met a very interesting teacher at the conference who was giving a presentation and running a workshop. Mike Leishman is a computer teacher at Newman College in Perth, Australia and his presentation was about how he is using Web 2.0 applications in his school. His post-conference workshop was about how to programme with […]

I find myself in my hotel room in Sinapore looking out of my window as I type this blogpost. I’m on the 12th floor of the Orchard Hotel on Orchard Road in Singapore and I am amidst high rise flats, offices and building sites. This really is a futuristic looking city and very very busy.
I […]

Last week I took the Consolarium to a CPD event in Dundee. I was invited along by the ICT Staff Tutor team in Dundee to contribute to an in-service day that was to take place in a city centre hotel. The idea was that it would act as a mini-exhibition similar to the one that […]

Before I go anywhere with this blogpost can I ask you to have a look at this excellent example of collaboration between LTS and a local authority partner.
I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did!
Today I spent a superb day capturing case study materials in schools in Stirling Council. As with […]

The most challenging and in some ways satisfying task that I have been faced with so far with in this job was not so much the initiation of a series of games-based-learning initiatives with local authority partners but more leaving them long enough so that we could then go back to find out what had […]

We had the great pleasure of welcoming colleagues from West and East Dunbartonshire to the Consolarium today.
We spent some time discussing the role that new technologies and in particular, games, can play in teaching and learning in the classroom of today. Luckily enough we had some game literate people although this did not stop everyone […]