Scottish Learning Festival News

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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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 aim of the cooking bus is:

• To inform healthy eating messages to school children in an engaging way by providing interactive cooking sessions during term time and taking part in projects during the school holidays.
• To take account of the needs and views of disadvantaged groups and reduce inequalities by enabling and encouraging cooking skills and giving people confidence and independent living skills.

The bus is available for schools and community groups to book for a visit please visit www.focusonfood.org for further information.

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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 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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