Scottish Learning Festival News

Another new function to assist you in the booking process this year.

After you have saved seminars to your wish list (using the link buttons on the right had side of the seminar web pages) go the the Wish list page.  Here you should find a list of seminars that you have selected.  Below the table is a link to save these details as an iCalendar file.

Once you have saved this to your own computer, you can import/upload/subscribe this file into your calendar so that you will be able to see all your bookings with their days and start times.

Unfortunately, at present, this does not work with Google Calendar, but is supported in Outlook, Hotmail Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar and 30 Boxes.

Further explanation can be found on our Online Service blog.

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Now you can flick through the Conference programme brochure in a page turning, interactive viewer. (Does require Flash player)

Hope you find it a convenient and helpful addition? Let us know?

Remember to register before the holidays!

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If you have a blog or a website, please use these banners for the Scottish Learning Festival 2009 to help spread the word.

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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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The SLF team are delighted to announce the following internationally renowned keynote speakers for this years conference:-

• Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Fiona Hyslop MSP, Scottish Government

• Prof. Ferre Laevers, Director of the Research Centre for Experiential Education, University of Leuven

• Prof. Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

• Frank Dick OBE, former British Athletics Federation Director of Coaching.

Further information about the keynotes, conference programme and details of how to book will be available from the SLF website at the end of April.

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We are pleased to welcome:

Due to the high volume and quality of submissions received for the SLF 2009 conference programme, the detailed selection process has taken longer than first expected and the SLF team will advise those who submitted proposals of the outcome of the selection as soon as possible.

Thanks to everyone who submitted proposals for this year’s SLF conference programme.  The call for participations is now closed and over 300 submissions were received.

The SLF planning team will now identify the sessions to be included in the conference programme.  Further information about the programme will be available in early March.

In the meantime if you have any queries about the SLF either visit the website or contact Elaine Docherty at e.docherty@ltscotland.org.uk

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Speakers confirmed so far are Professor Carlina Rinaldi from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy and Ian Jukes, Director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group.

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January is speeding by, and the deadline for the Call for Participation for SLF 2009 is only one week away.

The Scottish Learning Festival is the most prestigious educational event in Scotland and this year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary. This is your opportunity to present at the key educational event in Scotland.

Over the years, SLF has grown from an event attracting 1200 delegates, with four keynotes, 40 sessions and a small exhibition, to the conference we have today with over 7000 delegates, over 170 conference sessions and an exhibition of 200 suppliers.

The Call for Participation documentation is available from the SLF website; this gives full details of the themes for the 2009 conference, the submission process and deadlines.

Abstracts are to be submitted by Friday 30 January 2009. If you would like any more information please contact the SLF team. We look forward to hearing from you.

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