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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Recordings of keynote speeches for 2008 are already published on the website. Fiona Hyslop’s speech is available and others will follow shortly.
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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 […]

On Wednesday 17 September, Glow users from across Scotland had the opportunity to have a live discussion with the Cabinet Secretary on Glow.  See a transcript of the ‘chat’ in SLF Extra. (Glow login required).
Any questions that remained unanswered at the end of the session will be transferred to the discussion forum and answered by the […]

Join the Cabinet Secretary in a live discussion on Wednesday 17 September from 5.30pm until 5.55pm to exchange views, to chat, ask questions, or share your experiences (Glow login required).
You can also submit questions in advance.  Any questions not dealt with on the day will have an answer posted following the event.
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Did you know the Festival is also taking place in Glow this year? Using Glow, you could ask your seminar, spotlight or keynote speaker a question prior to attending their session. Better still, you will be able to revisit the session recorded in Glow, and even continue the discussion after the festival has finished. Glow […]

The Merchant City Festival runs from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 September, City Centre, Glasgow
For those of you visiting Glasgow for the Learning Festival, why not extend your stay to take in the wide variety of international performances and exhibitions that are in the Merchant City Festival programme.
There is an urban feel to the festival, […]

The last pathway brochures are now online.  Brochures available for:

Curriculum for Excellence
Health and Wellbeing
Assessment, Achievement and National Qualifications
Scottish World View
More Choices, More Chances

 It is hoped that these brochures will assist in your decisions about which seminars to book. Let us know if they do?
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The Scottish Cooking Bus will be stationed in the exhibition hall in the new Health and Wellbeing Zone on both days.  A wide range of activities will take place on the bus, including pupil workshops. Further details to follow soon.
The Scottish Cooking Bus is funded by the Scottish Government in partnership with the Food Standards Agency (Scotland). The […]

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 […]