Scottish Learning Festival News

Another new function to assist you in the booking process this year.

After you have saved seminars to your wish list (using the link buttons on the right had side of the seminar web pages) go the the Wish list page.  Here you should find a list of seminars that you have selected.  Below the table is a link to save these details as an iCalendar file.

Once you have saved this to your own computer, you can import/upload/subscribe this file into your calendar so that you will be able to see all your bookings with their days and start times.

Unfortunately, at present, this does not work with Google Calendar, but is supported in Outlook, Hotmail Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar and 30 Boxes.

Further explanation can be found on our Online Service blog.

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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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Channel 4 Education  have updated the details of their Educational Briefing.

On Thursday 25 Sepember they are hosting 3 sessions starting at 12.30 with a networking lunch.
At 1.15 there is ‘Sex-Ed Up! discussing “How and when should we teach our children about sex?”
At 2.30 there is the C4 Education Showcase launching a series of new projects which are breaking new ground in public service broadcasting, education and the use of social networking services.

Go to Sexed and Connected - Channel 4 at the Scottish Learning Festival for futher details.

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After some scrambling - it is a pleasure to relay the news that TeachMeet08@SLF has a home. This exciting and inspirational gathering will take place in the Forth room at the SECC from 6 - 9 pm on Wednesday 24 September. There will be selection of long (7 minute) and short (2 minute) presentations and roundtables, sharing information on a wide range of technologies. There will be refreshments and a chance to meet and network with colleagues.

 Further details on the TeachMeet wiki.

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For those that could not attend the LTS Inspiration Session yesterday (11/08/08) on learning how to improve presentations, there are online bookmarks (via delicious) for the videos that were shown, and a list of supplementary resources can be accessed.

An overview of this event, and others in the series, is on the Connected Live blog: (LTS Inspiration Sessions: Run your own) - Scroll down to Month 4.  Comments welcome.

These lunchtime sessions were based around the world famous TED Talks, followed by debate and discussion about the video clip and how it relates to our work or education in general.  For a personal response to this session see Andrew Brown’s blog.

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We are pleased to announce that Channel 4 Education, one of our lead sponsors, are giving an Educational Showcase with the title of “Here we come!” Channel 4 Education Showcase.

Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor and his team will be available to showcase some of the innovative, cross platform projects, games and web based services they are commissioning for 2008/9.  They will be focussing on issues derived from young people’s needs and desires that may be outside the more formal education curriculum. This will be taking place at 12.30 on Thursday 25 September. Further information and booking available through the seminar page.

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 We have prepared some graphics that you can use on your blog posts and other social media, to promote the Scottish Learning Festival 2008.

Please visit the image library on the website to download your own copies, and see a selection of photographs from previous events.

Remember to keep using the SLF2008 tag on all posts, presentations and images relating to the event so that we can cross reference all your views.

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 We are encouraging speakers to use Sharepoint to display and share their presentations.

As a friendly way to introduce this idea - please follow this link to view a  light herted introduction to the concept by Dean Shareksi.

Lesson #1 Share

 There is an event set up for 2008 as well as the one from last year.

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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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