Visit the Scottish Learning Festival website, where you can now choose sessions, browse the conference programme and make your booking.
SLF is the ideal place for everyone involved in education to find out more about Curriculum for Excellence, the experiences and outcomes and how the change towards Curriculum for Excellence is being made across Scotland.
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As promised, we have gathered some of the presentation files from seminars that were delivered at SLF 2008. Links to these are added at the bottom of the webpages displaying the seminar details.
Presentations now on:
A1C - Improving Relationships, Developing Skills for Life
A1F - Getting it right for every child in the classroom and nursery
A1G - More Choices, More Chances to Achieve Potential
A2A - Moving Image Education in the Early Years
A2E - Real and Relevant - literacy for 21st century learner
A2F - Supporting the vision for children and young people
B1B - Literacy and English within Curriculum for Excellence
B1E - Engineering the Future: engineering a game
B1G - Literature in Learning - Using Scots Language creatively in the Classroom
B2E - Connecting Learning: Making Connections through Interdisciplinary Working
B2I - Literacy and Numeracy across a Curriculum for Excellence
B3B - Getting the best for children outside the classroom
B3C - Sustainable Development Education in Secondary Schools
B3E - Taking Learning Out of Doors
C1B - Going Forward with Glow
C1C - Personalising learning using Glow
C1I - Redefining boundaries
C2B - Glow and e-Mentoring
D1D - Recognising Achievements Beyond National Qualifications
G1C - International Professional Development
G1D - Global Teachers in Uganda
G2A - Building Emotional Resilience in Schools
G2B - Getting Girls More Active!
G2G - Switched Off to Switched On
J1B - Challenging Sectarianism Through Education
J1D - Establishing a Culture of Participation
J1G - From Plimsoll Owner to Global Citizen!
L1C - It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it
L1F - Curriculum for Excellence: The Next Phase
L2F - Scottish Virtual Advisory Service – Phase 3
S2I - Are we meeting the needs of bilingual learners in our school communities?
Hope you find these useful.
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If you attended this years event, you probably saw, and maybe even took part in, Conference in Pictures in Hall 4 - a pictorial gallery capturing the meaning behind the words.
These images, with delegate’s comments, are now available to view on the SLF website on the Conference in Pictures page. Why not use these free images in a discussion with colleagues or young people or at an in-service day.
You can still find the online Conference in Pictures, complete with post-it notes, in SLF Extra in Glow (login required).
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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.
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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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 Cabinet Secretary in the near future.
On the discussion forum you still have the opportunity to exchange views, ask questions or share experiences about Scottish education that can be taken up by the Cabinet Secretary during her keynote speech at the Scottish Learning Festival. Technorati Tags: SLF2008
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 will also be the only place you can find ‘Conference in Pictures’.
If you have a Glow login - go to the SLF Extra tab in the National site and join the discussion.
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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, that includes street theatre, music, dance, comedy and visual arts. In addition, there will be the return of the hugely popular French Market in Candleriggs.
Download the programme from the Merchant City Festival website (PDF file: 4.5 MB)
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