Scottish Learning Festival News

September 5th, 2011

SLF Extra brings the festival to Scotland through Glow

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 : Categories Glow, Keynotes, SLF 2011, Scottish Education Village

With only a little over two weeks to go until the event itself, SLF Extra has been launched today, via the National Site in Glow. The Glow group has been designed with Glow users from all over Scotland in mind, not just those who are able to attend the festival.

Glow TV will aim to bring you as much content as we possibly can, with all keynote speeches streamed live through Glow and sign-ups and links available through the GlowTV schedule. Glow TV will also present a number of ‘Best of SLF’ broadcasts from our temporary studio at the SECC, where we aim to capture the key discussion topics from the Keynote speeches and allow Glow users to take part (through the Glow meet chat pod) in our studio discussion with our panel in Glasgow.

If you cannot take part live at the time of broadcast, there is, of course, the ‘Watch Again’ facility in Glow TV, where all broadcasts will be available after the event. SLF Extra also has a discussion forum, with a number of topics already raised to invite Glow users to engage in discussions that SLF raises. In addition to that, the Glow team will be armed with video cameras and audio recording devices to capture as much content as we can and have a festival team lined up to get that content to you through SLF Extra on Glow.

We will blog and we will tweet and, though we will probably end up with sore feet, we will make sure we bring Glow users as much of SLF as we can. SLF Extra is where you go to find it.

May 27th, 2011

Visitor registration is now open!

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Comments: none Tags:  : Categories Booking, Curriculum for Excellence, Programme, Registration, SLF 2011

The Conference Programme and Registration for this year’s SLF are now available on the SLF website. The programme has all the details you need to book your place at SLF 2011.

SLF 2011 is free for everyone to attend and gives you access to:

• Inspirational key note speakers
• Lively Round Table Discussions
• Conference programme with over 140 sessions
• The largest education exhibition in Scotland
• Opportunities for discussion and networking with colleagues
• And much, much more!

The full programme of keynote and seminar presentations along with full details of the range of additional activity at SLF is only available on the SLF website. To guarantee your place at your first choice of sessions, we recommend that you book as early as possible as many sessions do fill up quickly.
To help reduce the carbon footprint of the event, no printed programme is available again this year. The SLF website features an easy to use programme and booking facility to ensure you can easily book the seminars of your choice.

Need help registering? Visit the how to book page on the SLF website.

Come along and join us in September for the biggest and best SLF yet!

October 15th, 2010

Scottish Learning Festival 2010

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With over 160 seminars, an innovative twilight programme and more than 200 exhibitors, the Scottish Learning Festival 2010 was the biggest and best Learning Festival ever resulting in nearly eight hundred more delegates than last year.

SLF 2010 has proven itself as popular as ever with the education community from both home and abroad. This year delegates travelled from as far afield as New Zealand, Australia, Paraguay, and all over Europe to attend Scotland’s most popular educational event. Closer to home each Local Authority was well represented.

The new and innovative Scottish Education Village layout proved a huge success with delegates who had the opportunity to speak directly to education specialists from LTS, HMIE, SQA and Scottish Government. Showcasing all the work that goes on within these four key organisations, the stand offered visitors the chance to interact and engage with all the latest technologies, with demonstrations from the Glow team, Scottish Government and the LTS Game Based Learning team.

September 29th, 2009

Video – SLF – Day 2

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Keynote speech and interview with Professor Ferre Laevers now available on SLF website.

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September 23rd, 2009

TeachMeetSLF’09

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Remember to check-in with TeachmeetSLF09 that gathers from 6.00pm till 9.00pm Wednesday 23 September at BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DA

Short presentations, chat and social networking (in person) will be happening.

Twitter #tmslf09

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September 21st, 2009

Seminar C1A cancelled

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Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, seminar C1A: Building the Curriculum: A Framework for Assessment had to be cancelled.

The SLF team apologises for any disappointment caused, and hope that you will find plenty to interest you within the rest of the programme.

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September 18th, 2009

Glow Meet success

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The national Glow Meet with Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning was a real success.

Over 700 pupils and teachers joined in to hear the Cabinet Secretary speak about why she is proud to be Scottish. She then took questions from the Glow audience, hearing from classes from as far apart as Shetland and Dumfries and Galloway.

If you’d like a chance to view a recording of the Glow Meet, it can be found on the SLF Extra Glow Group (Glow login required).

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September 8th, 2009

SLF 2009 channel on Radiowaves

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Young Radiowaves reporters from Rimbleton Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School are looking forward to visiting SLF 2009 and interviewing V.I.P.s, teachers, guests and even some exhibitors.

The interviews will be posted on the Scottish Learning Festival channel on the Radiowaves website.

Alternatively, you can subscribe to the RSS feed to be kept up to date with any new podcasts as they are posted.

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September 8th, 2009

Glow Meet with the Cabinet Secretary

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In advance of her keynote speech at SLF 2009, Fiona Hyslop will be hosting a Glow Meet for Scottish schools from Gavinburn Primary School in West Dunbartonshire.

The Glow Meet will take place on the September 15, 2009 between 1pm and 2pm. Ms Hyslop will be speaking about why she is proud to be Scottish. She is inviting pupils from schools across the country to contribute by asking questions via Glow Meet.

To sign up your class to watch or to take part in the question and answer session, please visit the SLF Extra Glow Group (Glow login required).

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August 20th, 2009

The Healthier Scotland Focus on Food Cooking Bus

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The Healthier Scotland Focus on Food Cooking Bus is attending The Scottish Learning Festival to showcase its work.

The Cooking Bus travels throughout Scotland teaching pupils, teachers, parents and community members cooking skills, healthier eating, food safety and hygiene and where food comes from.

At SLF, delegates can sign up for a training workshop. This session may be of particular interest to primary teachers as it support them in terms of some of the skills required for implementation of the practical ‘hands on’ element of the Food and Health framework within Curriculum for Excellence.

The session will take place at 10.45 and will last approx 1 hour. There will be one workshop per day.

To sign up for an exemplar workshop please call 01422 383191or email [email protected] or [email protected].

Fear Not! If the sessions are fully booked you can sit outside the front of the Bus and watch the exemplar workshop on our outside TV screen.

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