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:
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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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.
Pupils were asked to create an audio documentary about environmental issues. They scripted, recorded and edited these pieces with music and sound effects.
We look forward to hearing the results this year.
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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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