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.

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 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

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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November 17th, 2008

Images from Conference in Pictures

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If you attended this years event, you probably saw, and maybe even took part in, Conference in Pictures in Hall 4 - a pictorial gallery capturing the meaning behind the words.

These images, with delegate’s comments, are now available to view on the SLF website on the Conference in Pictures page. Why not use these free images in a discussion with colleagues or young people or at an in-service day.

You can still find the online Conference in Pictures, complete with post-it notes, in SLF Extra in Glow (login required).

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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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Comments: 1 Comment Tags:  : Categories Blogs/podcasts, Games-based learning, Glow, ICT, SLF2008, Scottish education

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 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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September 11th, 2008

Conferences in Pictures

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Comments: 1 Comment Tags:  : Categories Early Years, Feedback, Glow, ICT, SLF2008

There are now 2 sets of Conference in Pictures online in Glow.

Login to find out more in the SLF Extra group and Early Years Glow group.

Write your comments on the post-it notes supplied and drag them onto the images to add to those previously submitted.

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