Scottish Learning Festival News http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest Information and comments relevant to the Scottish Learning Festival Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:33:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Save SLF wish list to your calendar 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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]]> http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest/2009/07/02/save-seminars-to-your-calendar/ New way to view the Conference programme 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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  • The first seminars to become fully booked are:
    C2H: Curriculum for Excellence Early Level: Developing a Common Approach to Learning across Nursery and Primary One
  • E1I: Raising Levels of Wellbeing and Involvement in Early Years.
  • A1A: Improving Scottish Education 2: Pre-school to Early Primary
  • G1F: Interactive Approaches to Literacy Learning and Teaching
  • B3B: Co-operative Learning with Young Learners

    • We are pleased to have already reached the point where seminars are beginning to fill up, so make sure you book now to avoid disappointment.

    You can check on the website to find up to date details of fully booked seminars.

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    ]]>     http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest/2009/06/01/fully-booked-seminars/     SLF banners for you Register now banner Celebrate excellence banner 

    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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    ]]>     http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest/2009/05/27/slf-banners-for-you/     Registration goes ‘live’ 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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    ]]>     http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest/2009/05/07/registration-goes-live/     Keynote speakers 2009 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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    ]]>     http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest/2009/04/06/keynote-speakers-2009/     Two more spotlight speakers confirmed We are pleased to welcome:

    • Andreas Schleicher
      Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division (Directorate of Education), OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).  He delivered a spotlight presentation titled ‘Benchmarking Scottish Education‘ in 2006.
    • Graham Maxwell
      He is from Australia and will focus on assessment.

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    ]]>     http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest/2009/03/04/two-more-spotlight-speakers-confirmed/     SLF Conference Programme submissions 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.

    For further updates please continue to visit the SLF website.

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    ]]>     http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest/2009/03/04/slf-conference-programme-submissions/     Moving seminars teeseonstage.jpgJust in case any of you have saved bookmarks for your favourite seminars from last year, you will need to update them.

    The seminar pages from last year have been moved into the ‘Previous conferences‘ area of the website, so that this years’ seminars can take their place in due time.

    The ‘Choose seminars‘ page is available in its new URL, as is the 2008 videos page.  All pages should be available from the 2008 home-page.

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    ]]>     http://ltsblogs.org.uk/scotlearnfest/2009/02/24/moving-seminars/     Thanks to everyone 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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