Scottish Learning Festival News

October 6th, 2008

SLF 2009

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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.

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October 1st, 2008

Consolarium champions

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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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September 25th, 2008

Keynote speeches

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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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September 19th, 2008

TeachMeet’08 at SLF

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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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September 18th, 2008

The Cabinet Secretary has left the Chatroom

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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 

September 15th, 2008

Cabinet Secretary on Glow

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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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August 12th, 2008

Improving presentations

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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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June 27th, 2008

Scottish Education Village

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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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May 22nd, 2008

Draft experiences and outcomes for health and wellbeing

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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 wellbeing have been published on the Curriculum for Excellence website.

These documents have been designed to provide information for all staff in all education establishments on the context and scope of the draft outcomes; they also explain what schools and centres should do with the draft outcomes.

At this year’s festival, the Health and Wellbeing team from LTS will deliver the seminar ‘Health and Wellbeing: The draft experiences and outcomes’ on Wednesday 24 September at 13.30.

This session offers delegates the opportunity to share their views of health and wellbeing in schools and their ideas about how best to support all staff, pupils and parents to become more involved.

Register for this seminar by quoting seminar code G2C.

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Feedback on the experiences and outcomes is now being collected via questionnaires located on the Curriculum for Excellence website.

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May 15th, 2008

Have you seen the Official Conference Guide?

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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 Guide from 35K to 15K with the aim of…

a) reducing our carbon footprint
b) encouraging you to use the website to browse the conference programme and register

For the first time we have been able to tell you about ALL the special features and activities planned for 2008 in the Official Conference Guide. The Guide includes timetables for Topic Surgeries, the Education Showcase and the Learning and Teaching Zone at the Scottish Education Village. It also features information on the exhibition, Learning in Practice area and your own SLF 2008 Planner.

If you don’t like to share and would like your own personal copy of the Official Conference Guide,  a PDF version is available to download and print at…

www.LTScotland.org.uk/slf/whatson/program/

Or, email Festival@LTScotland.org.uk with your mailing address and we will mail you a copy.

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We would love to hear what you think of our Official Conference Guide.

Anything specific you would like to see?

Is reducing our print quantity a move in the right direction?

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