Scottish Learning Festival News

Remember to check-in with TeachmeetSLF09 that gathers from 6.00pm till 9.00pm Wednesday 23 September at BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DA

Short presentations, chat and social networking (in person) will be happening.

Twitter #tmslf09

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A new page on the SLF website called SLF Live has been published.

Here you will find a selection of:

• messages from Twitter using the #SLF09 tag
• images of SLF09 from Flickr
• selected blog posts relevant to SLF 2009
• audio messages that have been uploaded to SLFtalk
• podcasts/interviews that have recorded by children at SLF 2009 with Radiowaves

You can also find LTS on Facebook and YouTube.

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SLFtalk  is a digital audio project for the Scottish Learning Festival.

Cards like this will be distributed at the event to give people the details needed to publish reflections, conversations and discussions – using mobile devices.

This facility has been set up by colleagues John Johnston and David Noble and further information and podcasts can be found at http://slftalk.posterous.com/

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Young Radiowaves reporters from Rimbleton Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School are looking forward to visiting SLF 2009  and interviewing V.I.P.s, teachers, guests and even some exhibitors.

The interviews will be posted on the Scottish Learning Festival channel on the Radiowaves website.

Alternatively, you can subscribe to the  RSS feed to be kept up to date with any new podcasts as they are posted.

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Hear an exclusive interview with Frank Dick, OBE.

In a question and answer session, Frank sets out some of the strategies that he will be expanding on during his keynote speech.

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Young Radiowaves reporters will, again, be out and about during SLF, interviewing  speakers and presenters.

Pupils from 2 schools in Fife will record, edit and publish their interviews live from the SECC.  The schools were chosen from the winners of the End of Term Awards 2009.

Examples of previous work

Pupils were asked to create an audio documentary about environmental issues. They scripted, recorded and edited these pieces with music and sound effects.

• The Future is Unwritten: Rimbleton Primary School
• Don’t Break My Heart!: Kirkcaldy High School

We look forward to hearing the results this year.

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Over the past month, Guitar Heroes have been practicing and posting their scores on the Consolarium Challenge (Glow login required).
Now they are coming to the Education Showcase at the Scottish Learning Festival 2008 for a grand final.

All contestants are from Baldragon Academy in Dundee: -
David Whyte
Craig Davidson
Ryan Simpson
Shaun Caldwell

See them battle it out at 16.00 on Wednesday 24 September in the Education Showcase area in the Exhibition Hall at the SECC.

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Jesse Rae and Brick FM will be broadcasting live by ISDN  from the Scottish Learning Festival 2008.

Presented by the ‘POWER GROUP’ of two schools in the Borders (One primary and one secondary), they will turn the SECC into a Global Radio Station, connecting with schools as far away as Africa and the USA.  Individuals or groups of students from other countries will be invited to take turns at presenting their own programmes. This will be in the form of reading, singing, music and in their own language.
The ‘POWER GROUP’ back in Scotland will record the Global shows in real time and cut live to CD for the broadcast around Glasgow area on Brick FM 105.5 FM.

 A live feed will be available via the Scottish Learning Festival website during the event and Jesse Rae will present the seminar ‘Be yer sel’ on Wednesday 24 September at 1.30 pm.

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A third set of audio recordings from this year’s Festival are now available on the Scottish Learning Festival website.

Seminars:

• D1J Twinning between Denominational and Non-Denominational Schools
• A2C Our Journey to Excellence along the Microtech Road 
• D2G Leadership for Learning
• A1B Towards the Curriculum for Excellence: Using an Interdisciplinary Study to Combine Learning Outcomes
• A2D Help! They Know More than I do: Meeting the Needs of our Most Able Pupils
• H1A Arts and Culture Integrated across Children’s Services: Current Practice and Opportunities
• A1I How Feuerstein Methodologies can Develop the Four Capacities of the Curriculum for Excellence
• A1J Creating the Curriculum for Excellence through Literature in Learning

There are more presentation slides/notes appearing on the seminar pages as soon as they become available.

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A second set of audio recordings from this year’s Festival are now available on the Scottish Learning Festival website.

As before, these are unedited recordings from the seminars, without introductions in many cases, which sometimes have varying sound quality. But if you were not able to make it to the event, or were busy at other seminars, you can get a good idea of what was covered.

Seminars:

• L1I Early Years Curriculum: Opportunity or Challenge?
• D2H Harvard Reflections 
• F1H An Inconvenient Truth: Education Response
• N1J Use of Voting System Technologies to Support Learners
• A2E Teaching About Islamophobia in the Classroom
• B2A Literature in Learning: A Year of Scots at Letham Primary School
• B2C Creating a Pedagogical Meeting Place in Primary 1
• C1H Using E-assessment to Support Teachers and Learners
• B1G The Child at the Centre and the Self-evaluation Framework

Also, there are more presentation slides/notes appearing on the seminar pages when they become available.

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