Laurie O’Donnell

There is an article by Melanie Reid in this morning’s Times Online covering George Lucas’ testimony to the US Congress.
Under the headline ‘The Force is with Scotland’s School’s intranet, says George Lucas’ the articles goes on to say:
‘In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an education system, the […]

Our press officer Lee-Ann has just sent me a pdf of a small news article in today’s  Herald with the above headline.
This is really the Glow section of the LTS website (or what we call the LTS Online Service). It looks pretty good and the new sections ‘Glow in Your Area’, ‘Glow in Action’ and […]

 This one really made me smile
George Lucas mentioned Glow in his testimony before  the US Congressional committee on telecomm and the Internet a couple of weeks ago.
His testimony (6 pages) makes really good reading but the mention of Glow is on page 5 for those of you who are impatient.

On 24 June The Scottish Government public expenditure watchdog Audit Scotland published a review of 20 major capital projects including  Glow.
Overview
Audit Scotland noted that Glow had already been the subject of a number of external reviews including several using the OGC Gateway Process and that the programme was characterised by the close working relationship between […]

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The second book in my pile of books to read over the Summer was Charles Leadbeater’s ‘We-Think’.
Charles is signed-up to be one of the keynote speakers at the LTS organised Scottish Learning Festival in September. The inside cover of the book describes Leadbeater as ‘one if the world’s leading authorities on innovation and creativity’ so […]

I took  most of this week off to catch-up with stuff around the house and the garden. It was the first week of the school holidays in Dundee so a great time to be on leave.  I still haven’t got over the feeling, from my time as a teacher, that the first week in July […]