Scottish Learning Festival News

As well as the web poll that was on the SLF site during the Festival, all delegates were asked to respond to an online survey during the week 6 – 13 October.

Results from the survey help us to recognise the needs of our audience, and find out which aspects of the Festival are the most appreciated.

Amongst the findings were:

• The SLF website provided a useful service (with ratings of excellent (39%) and good (47%).
• Most people using the website (83%) used the website primarily to register for seminars.
• Nearly everyone (99%) would recommend the Festival to a colleague.
• Before you arrived, you aimed to ‘keep abreast of educational initiatives’ (37%) and ‘obtain examples of good learning and teaching practice that can help in the classroom’ (38%).
• When you were there, you ‘networked with colleagues’ (60%).
• You felt that the Scottish Learning Festival enhanced your professional development in a very supportive (43%) or quite supportive (49%) way; leading to over half of you (55%) being able to ‘count attendance at the Scottish Learning Festival 2008 as part of your continuing professional development obligation’.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill in the survey, and with planning afoot for SLF 2009, the results will be taken into account.

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Many of you who have visited the LTS Online Service and the SLF website will have seen the voting poll displayed during the Learning Festival and the week after.

As a snapshot view - the sample of votes cast showed your favourite feature to be:

•  Range of seminars – 43% votes
•  Networking – 21% votes
•  Exhibition – 15% votes
•  CPD opportunities – 8% votes
•  Others – 9% votes
•  Learning in Practice area - 5% votes

Among the Other votes – there was support for TeachMeet and the Keynote speeches.

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Planning for next year’s Festival has already started. If you would like to take part in next year’s conference programme, information about the Call for Participation and how to submit your proposal will be available on the SLF website later this month.

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After the exciting build up that was documented in the Consolarium Glow group (Glow login required), the finals in the Gamezone Challenge took place at the Education Showcase at the Scottish Learning Festival 2008.

The Guitar Hero Champion ‘08 is David Whyte from Baldragon Academy.

The Mario and Sonic at the Olympics Champion ‘08 is Simon Tait from Cathkin High School.

The Dr Kawashima Champion for Wednesday was Steven Beattie, Dens Road Primary School, Dundee. The Dr Kawashima Champion for Thursday was Vicky Mackenzie, Lairdsland PS, Kirkintilloch.

See the Consolarium blog for full reports of these popular events, that were part of the Games based learning program for SLF 2008.

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