Posts Tagged ‘CPD’
Inter professional dialogue as CPD
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 14, 2011
It sometimes strikes me, as I speak and network with other education professionals that we are rather insular in our approaches. Of course, many folk I’ve worked with went from school, to university, and straight into teaching as their chosen career, and have been teachers and educationalists ever since. However, certainly over the past few [...]
Big Brain Academy@ Cathkin Learning Community…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 14, 2009
Started using ‘Big Brain Academy’ this week. Basically, for those that don’t know, this consists of 100’s of problem-solving puzzles and mental maths questions. It can be played individually or in teams and will store data so that you can monitor your performance, a little like the Dr Kawashima stuff for the DS. We are [...]
Building Windmills 09…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 13, 2009
- In: capacity-building | CPD | GLOW | ICT | networking | PLN
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Mike Coulter, one of the country’s leading web 2.0 exponents has produced a superb slideshow of the ‘Twitterati’ in action at the recent National CPD team conference ‘Building Windmills’. You can find it on the CPD team blog. It’s a superb example of how personal learning networks can utilise the power of web 2.0 social networking [...]
Merlin John online
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 19, 2008
- In: GLOW | networking | teaching and learning
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Merlin has written an article on his online service about my experiences with GLOW and educational philosophy in general. It’s based on a chat we had at SLF this year. I have to admit I enjoyed our conversations and my own sense of ‘unloading’ which made up much of the material for his piece. You [...]
Presenting on GLOW/ACfE…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 17, 2008
Strangely enough, it’s not often I get asked to do presentations in schools in my own local authority, so I was really pleased to be invited to do an in-service day presentation for the staff at Hamilton Grammar school this morning. The presentation was on GLOW and how it can be used effectively to [...]
National bodies part 4 – the final cut.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 9, 2008
- In: change | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | teaching and learning
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When I was thinking about these points and those covered in the series, I wrote that this was somewhat of a watershed time for me. I’m going to expand a little on this at the end of this post. First though, my final thoughts on LTS and LA central teams. A classroom teacher writing a [...]
Self-evaluation and a cuddlier friendlier HMIe ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 25, 2008
- In: ICT | Inspection | Quality assurance | smt
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I suppose everyone is going to be blogging about SLF08, and rightly so. What a fantastic event this year’s has turned out to be. I’m going to be writing a little (!) about my thoughts over the next week or so but I’m going to start with something I took time to check out this [...]
Is it just me or….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 24, 2008
- In: Finland | GLOW | ICT | Research
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…are there others who read the ok and Hello mags when on holiday. I’m starting to get a bit of a complex because a quick scoot around the sites of the blogeratti reveals some quite highbrow holiday reading lists. Mine, on the other hand consists of the above-mentioned mags, some Marion Keyes, this years editions [...]
Elaborative rehersal for high performance learning
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 17, 2008
- In: GLOW | Literacy | teaching and learning
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I was going to write a post summarising my study visit to Finland last week (more to come on that in a few days time) but today, I attended a Psychology seminar at Stirling University. It gave me a rare chance to really focus on some of the actual material that I teach for [...]
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