Scottish Learning Festival News

Fancy yourself as a games designer? Now is your chance to design, create and market your own computer game with great characters and compelling storylines. Your game only has to meet two criteria for your chance to win some great prizes.

1. It should be an adventure/platform/puzzle game with a story behind it.
2. The player should be able to control a character and solve a puzzle or collect items to progress to the next level / complete the game.

If you are a pupil at a school in Scotland then you can enter your game in one of four categories:

1. Primary Individual
2. Primary Group
3. Secondary Individual
4. Secondary Group

Find out more about the Digital Games Design Competition on the Consolarium blog.

Calling all Jenson Button and Lewis Hamiltons of the future.
Would you like to race head to head, in front of a live audience and win the title of SLF10 MarioKarter Champion?

This year at SLF10 there will be a Mario Kart Grand Prix for Primary and Secondary pupils. In order to qualify you must be in the top 4 verified time trial times.

Teachers must submit a photo of a pupil’s verified Time Trial time. These times will be logged on a leader board held on the Consolarium Glow Group and blog so you can track your position against the whole of Scotland. The four fastest primary pupils and four fastest secondary pupils will be invited, with school representatives, to compete in a live race final at SLF10.

Find out more about the SLF10 Mario Kart Challenge on the Consolarium blog.

The deadline for submitting seminar proposals for this year’s Scottish Learning Festival has now passed. Thanks to everyone who submitted proposals for SLF 2010. The review process is now underway and more information will be available shortly.

The theme for SLF 2010 is Curriculum for Excellence: Enhancing experiences, raising standards. We are now accepting abstracts for proposed participation. Visit the Scottish Learning Festival website for more information on the theme and details of how to submit a proposal.

Here is a further list of seminars that have their associated presentations added to this site:

• A1A: Improving Scottish Education 2: Pre-school to Early Primary
• A2E: Healthy Minds – Moray Mental Health Framework Pilot Project
• B1H: Curriculum for Excellence: Vocational learning through SQA’s National Qualification Group Awards
• B3A: Developing Financial Awareness Accredited through Youth Achievement Awards
• C1B: Curriculum for Excellence – Making the Change with Critical Skills
• CD41: HMIE: Excellence in Equality and Diversity Education
• D1A: Numeracy across Learning: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice
• D2B: Working in Partnership to Reduce Childhood Obesity
• E1Y: Interdisciplinary Project, 3-15, with the Main Focus on Science and Technology
• G2D: 16+ Learning Choices: Progress so far…….
• J1C: Shared Responsibility – International Partnerships and Developing Global Citizenship
• L2A: Recognising Achievement
• L2G: Curriculum for Excellence and the Relationship to PRD and CPD with a Focus on Distributed Leadership
• L2H: A Tapestry of Learning: Teaching for Understanding (TfU) and AifL
• N1I: Sciences: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice

If there are any more, they will be posted on their respective seminar descriptor pages.

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Here is an additional  list of seminars that have their associated presentations added to this site:

• B2D: Glow in the Classroom: Personal Reflections of Changing Practice using Glow
• C1B: Curriculum for Excellence – Making the Change with Critical Skills
• C2F: Podcasting and Pre-service Teachers
• D2B: Working in Partnership to Reduce Childhood Obesity
• G1B: Exploring Conflict and Child Soldiers in the Classroom – Why and How Should We Approach this Topic?
• J1D: Environmental Sustainability: Good Practice and Ways Forward
• J1I: Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach in Secondary Schools – Schools’ Global Footprint
• L1A: Making the Experiences and Outcomes Glow
• N1G: Religious Education in Roman Catholic Schools: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice

More to follow.

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Please find the slides from Ferre Laevers’ keynote presentation about using an experiential approach at all levels given at SLF 2009 on his seminar page. 

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Returning in 2009, Conference in Pictures was a pictorial gallery capturing the meaning behind the words at SLF.  A selection of images made during SLF 2009 are now available to view on the SLF website.

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Please find the slides from Carol Dweck’s keynote presentation about developing ‘Growth Mindsets’ at SLF 2009 on her seminar page. 

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To save you hunting about – here is a list of seminars that, so far,  have their associated presentations added to this site:

• Assessment Developments Around the World and their Relevance for Current Scottish Developments
• StaffWise: Staff Wellbeing in Scottish Education
• Sharing Standards and Expectations: Practical Approaches to Moderation for Excellence
• Excellence in Partnership – Skills Development Scotland
• A Global Perspective on Education: Key Messages from OECD PISA
• Use of GLOW as an Authority-wide Networking tool for Science Teachers
• Job, Education and Training (JET) Programme

More to follow.

A few more presentations have been shared by presenters via www.SlideShare.net.

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