Recently I met with Don Johnston (and I don't mean the American actor from Miami Vice) the educational company that supports struggling learners in literacy and provides resources and tools to help students release their potential and a parental Read More

Atomic Learning provide web-based software training through a series of tutorials on a wide variety of applications. This year they are offering BETT attendees the opportunity to access the workshops on their website free for a limited period of time. Read More

Last week there was a Gaelic Masterclass in the Stirling Management Centre. 50 secondary teachers attended and recieved workshops on interactive whiteboards, powerpoint, podcasting and digital video. After being bombarded with information they then Read More

A part of the Orkney Learning Festival I delivered a seminar on A Curriculum for Excellence and online resources. The session looked at some of the material that is available online and how they can be used in a classroom situation. It also highlighted Read More

Last week staff in Orkney had the opportunity to attend the Orkney Learning Festival which ran over two days. The learning festivals focus was on A Curriculum for Excellence and consisted of an exhibition, a variety of workshops, group Read More

Another part of the Scottish Learning Festival is to highlight examples of innovative and interesting work form various schools. You can find in Learning Zone A: Information on an online tool, Phrasebox, for those seeking to improve their Read More

The Scottish Learning Festival is here, packed full of seminars, keynotes and exhibitors discussing and promoting good practice in teaching, learning and leadership across Scotland.  There is plenty to inspire and encourage the effective use of ICT Read More

It has been brought to my attention by a modern languages teacher in Newton Stewart this morning about a website called 'SecondLife', a virtual world for anyone to take on an online role in a virtual world and interact with others in a virtual environment.  Read More

We have been thinking of ways to support schools to initiate A Curriculum for Excellence projects.  Don Ledingham has floated some ideas in his blog and these ideas are beginning to be firmed up.  The idea is that pupils embark on individual Read More

I met with Robert Whiteside, a teacher from Haddington Infants in East Lothian and a long-time enthusiast for technology in Learning and Teaching.  He had been working with his P2 class last session on animation with some very successful results Read More

I am Karen Robertson and work for East Lothian Council.  I have been invited to contribute to the LTScotland weblog, particularly in connection with the work we are doing to begin to implement A Curriculum for Excellence in our schools.  I think Read More

The Herald has reported that the SQA has introduced a new qualification about internet safety. From the start of next term pilot schools across the country will test this new course which covers areas such as cyber bullying, protection against viruses, Read More

If you are looking to add images to your website or a weblog, instead of having image after image to scroll through why not use Bubbleshare, a free application that allows you to display your digital photos in a slideshow format.  All you Read More

I have just returned from a two day Masterclass course that looked at New Technologies. As part of this we worked with blogs, wikis and podcasting. I have been thinking about establishing my own blog (other than contributing to this LTS one) for some Read More

As a I have siad in earlier posts I have a great interest in exploring the learning opportunites that are inherent in the console/PC based games that learners spend hours upon hours playing. Marc Prensky seems to have championed much of these arguments Read More

I have just been reading the NESTA Futurelab newsletter and discovered a very interesting research project called Enquiring Minds. The blurb on the website says, 'Enquiring Minds is a three-year research and development project investigating how children Read More

Anybody fancy developing the electrifying guitar skills of Eddie Van Halen or Jimmy Page? Then try Mr Fastfinger at : http://www.guitarshredshow.com/ Again, a really entertaining computer game/interactive story but here you can also take tutorials Read More

I have a real interest in what computer games can offer us in terms of teaching and learning with digital learners. I think that many PC and console based games are excellent and can offer many links to curricular and skills development if used Read More

In relation to my first post about developing digital literacy skills I now include some examples of the student responses to the task: Student 1 What has today's workshop done for you in raising your awareness of the importance of developing your Read More

As part of the holistic approach to preparing students in terms of developing technical and pedagogic skills and awareness we have a focus on exploring critical literacy skills in B.Ed2. I first became conscious of the importance of this at Read More

In some of our schools we have been piloting ACTIVote since the beginning of this session. ACTIVote helps teachers to encourage all pupils to involve themselves in the lesson. It helps to generate discussion and gather opinions/answers from Read More

An avatar is an image that represents a user in a multi-user or virtual reality environment. These can be used to great effect in animated learning sequences. An example of this is Seonaid, the online news reporter for the Scottish Executive bringing Read More

There are many reasons why we should learn the binary code. It helps us to recognise and use different number systems, it allows us to explore coding and increases our understanding of how the computer works. In this blog we will examine two Read More

There is an alternative to the online version of the 'Buddy' scenario which can be set up on your own computer or on a school network. This and another scenario called 'Percy', which looks at the structure and organisation of the processor in an Read More

Hello, my name is Kenny Stewart and I am one of Dundee City's ICT Staff Tutors. During the month of February I am going to be making postings (if that is the right phrase) on the ICT Weblog. My main focus is the Secondary sector but I have been involved Read More