At SETT ‘06 I saw an application called Crazy Talk at one of the stands. Totally bowled over by this application I bought 25 licences for the Consolarium so that I could share them with my early adopter partners. The reason that I liked it was that it made bringing digital characters to life so […]

What was the name of the first dog in space? You don’t know…well the children in a P.2 class in Aberdeenshire do and they were able to tell me all about him. (Answer at the end of this blogpost!)
A previous blogpost talked of the Nintendogs project that we  initiated in two P.2 classes up in […]

The Consolarium received an invite from Morag Giblin at the University of West of Scotland, Ayr Campus to come and kick ot the B.Ed4 Contemporary Isses in Education module. We were asked if we could deliver three sessions that would involve a presentation exploring the rationale and practice of using games in the class and […]

In order to nurture and grow games based learning developments in classrooms throughout Scotland it’s important that we are able to take the Consolarium ‘On Tour’ so to speak so that teachers and education managers who maybe can’t get to Dundee can engage with the debates about games in the classroom and best of all […]

A working relationship with Perth & Kinross Council has already been established in relation to a visit to the Consolarium having already taken place and Perth HS’ involvement in the Winning Game project that we are curently in the process of supporting. Discusions with Jim Scott and Jim Hynd at Perth HS led to a […]

Now that the LTS Dundee office has moved premises the Consolarium has found itself temporarily homeless although it can be set-up for some visits. This meant that a pre-arranged visit by the ICT Education team from Angus Council to the Consolarium had to be changed so that the Consolarium went to Forfar!

Another really good session […]