Archive for June 2009
New term – New job…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 29, 2009
It’s been a really intense school year, what with the onward march of GLOW, a couple of research projects, ACfE, and the ‘BrainBoosters’ primary/secondary games-based learning project. Lots of interesting work so the feeling of moving slowly towards the summer break was really kicking in last week big time. Add to this another knee operation, [...]
Seth Godin on Tribes and leadership
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 27, 2009
I know many have read Seth’s latest book ‘Tribes’….there’s a great TED talk he gave in February here..
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html
Professional learning networks…but personal too…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 20, 2009
- In: PLN| networking
- 2 Comments
This was going to be my second post on the Islay Education 2020 unconference, but that’s going to have to wait a little. I’ve just come out of hospital after having an operation on my knee. It was one of those not-too-serious ops, but one which has a reputation for being quite painful during recovery. [...]
Education 2020 and Islay High School 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 16, 2009
Arriving at Islay High School early last Friday morning in the glorious sunshine, it was easy to forget the 0400hrs start from Glasgow. Some great company and conversation in the car with David Noble, Maureen Park and driven by Katie Barrowman and so the journey up to Kennacraig passed by through some amazing scenery in [...]
Education2020 and the Islay iPhone convention 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 14, 2009
I’ve just returned from a really great weekend away. I’ve been in Islay, where as well as the Education2020 unconference (much more about that in my next post) they were holding this year’s iPhone convention. The streets, bars and hotels were packed full of folk extolling the virtues of their little slabs of black plastic [...]
Political integrity ? – it’s not all bad news if we look back…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 7, 2009
- In: Equality| homophobia
- 2 Comments
All the recent negative publicity about the dubious integrity of our politicians has really got me thinking, as I guess it has everybody else, about our political system and the type of people it attracts, as well as the type of behaviour it appears to encourage in our elected members.
And I’ve had a lot of [...]
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