Archive for September, 2007
Scottish Learning Festival 2007
Started writing this on the train home to Dundee after a great couple of days at the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC in Glasgow. Just getting around to publishing it this afternoon.
Some highlights of SLF for me were:
Michael Fullan’s keynote on the seven secrets of school improvement. I have always liked his work and […]
Posted: September 21st, 2007 under Diary, Education, Events, LTS, Technology.
Comments: 5
A Real Classic - Anna Karenina
A few entries ago I mentioned how much I had enjoyed reading Sebastian Faulkes’ ‘Birdsong’ but didn’t think it was a real classic.
Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ is well worth a read and don’t be daunted by the 800+ pages as it’s written in bite sized chapters (just like Dickens) and the mulit-layered story flies along […]
Posted: September 14th, 2007 under Books.
Comments: none
Visit to Singapore 2
Singapore is really quite an amazing place. A small island, 275 square miles (half the size of Fife), 85 miles north of the equator with a population of 4.5m people. Despite having no natural resources, not even its own water supply, Singapore seems to have prospered largely on the resourcefulness of its people […]
Posted: September 14th, 2007 under Diary, Education.
Comments: 1
A Visit to Singapore 1
Just a week before the Scottish Learning Festival [which looks like it’s going to be a great event again] I have had the opportunity to look beyond Scotland to see how we are doing.
I am aproaching the end of a visit to the Ministry of Education in Singapore and which allowed me to see round […]
Posted: September 13th, 2007 under Diary, Education, LTS, Technology.
Comments: 1