http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium Just another Ltsblogs.org.uk weblog Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:04:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week has seen my colleague from the University of Dundee, Dr David Miller, carrying out the post-tests in participating schools in Dundee with me making my way to Stornoway to carry out those in the Western Isles. The life of a Development Officer for LTS is not an easy ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/06/17/dr-kawashima-post-tests-the-western-isles/ Time flies when you're playing Brain Training in the classroom it seems. The extended research study into the use of Dr Kawashima's Brain Training that I am doing with Dr David Miller from the University of Dundee is coming to an end. I can hardly believe that it's been ten ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/06/17/dr-kawashima-the-post-tests-begin/ [ltsflash intranet/Newsround] Watch the CBBC Newsround report from an Aberdeen school showcasing how its using games-based learing across the curriculum to encourage game designers in the future. http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/05/14/cbbc-newsround-report-on-games-design/ Recently it was announced that LTS' very own Laurie O'Donnell was given the great honour of being named as one of the Global Six by the George Lucas Foundation. Laurie was recognised for his work in leading developments with technology in Scottish Education. The people at the Foundation were particularly ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/04/27/edutopia-comes-to-dundee/ The Consolarium now has a presence in Glow, our national schools intranet. If you are a teacher in Scotland and you have access to Glow then please feel free to join our national group. Just select this link, login and when the page appears click the 'request access' button We are ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/04/16/consolarium-glow-group-now-live/ The past two weeks have been rather hectic, with the promise of more of the same next week. I'm writing this post from the Western Isles EDC offices in Stornoway having completed another leg of the LTS extended Dr Kawashima project. Last year we carried out a small-scale intervention using Nintendo ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/04/15/kawashima-project-kicks-off/ 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 ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/03/25/crazy-talking-and-exploring-art-design/ 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 ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/03/22/fantastic-learning-in-p2-via-nintendogs/ 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 ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/03/21/consolarium-visits-uws-ayr-campus/ 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 ... http://ltsblogs.org.uk/consolarium/2008/03/21/consolarium-visits-argyll-bute/