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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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 […]

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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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, […]

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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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 […]

See further information about the sessions in the Scottish Education Village and the Education Showcase now available. Follow the links to individual sessions.
Alternatively, you can download the Pathway brochures covering these and other topics.
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The promotion of health and wellbeing is no longer just the responsibility of the Head Teacher or a dedicated member of staff.
Increasingly everyone who works in a school is being encouraged to play a part in promoting the social, physical and emotional wellbeing of everyone in the school.
The draft experiences and outcomes for health and […]

All Scottish education establishments and local authorities have now been mailed copies of the Official Conference Guide for this year’s festival. Copies should be in your staff room so you can browse the conference programme, peruse the activities planned for 2008 and start planning your visit.
This year we have decreased our print quantity of the Official Conference […]