Posts Tagged ‘ICT’
Scottish Government bowled a right proper Googly
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 2, 2012
So, google have withdrawn from the Glow procurement process. Their letter, sent to all LA’s in Scotland is self explanatory. Many of you know that they were involved in user testing with representatives from every LA in the country earlier this year, along with Microsoft 365.
My wish-list….number 4
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 25, 2011
This wish is one that, admittedly, I’ve had to be convinced about by discussions and reading over the course of the past year now, and it’s for better IT infrastructure for schools. And as my previous three wishes have (at least over an extended life) leant towards a cost-neutral situation, or have even offered some [...]
Reports of the death of blogging have been greatly exagerated !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 24, 2011
- In: Literacy | networking | PLN | sustainability
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So teens are going off blogging and turning increasingly to social networking sites such as Twitter instead. So says a recent article in the New York Times I came across, courtesy of the Smart Brief on EdTech. Some interesting comment, particularly about the reasons for this apparent switch. One of these was the time taken [...]
Islay first, and the Cedars follows…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 21, 2011
- In: change | future of education | ICT
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Well done to the Cedars School of Excellence, a private school in Greenock for equipping all pupils with iPads and having most lessons taught using them. The school’s website proudly boasts that it is the first school in the world to have a 1:1 pupil/iPad ratio. At a cost of £45K, no small change here [...]
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 [...]
Effective use of EVS in the classroom
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 19, 2010
Electronic voting systems (EVS) are something I’ve been interested in for some time now. Over the course of this academic year, I’ve had a small scale research project on the go with a couple of my first year classes. this was another collaboration with Glasgow University Psychology dept and was the subject of a recent [...]
The Emperor’s new clothes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 5, 2010
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | networking | PLN | Quality assurance | sustainability | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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“Your Majesty,” the prime minister said, “we have a request for you. The people have found out about this extraordinary fabric and they are anxious to see you in your new suit.” The Emperor was doubtful showing himself naked to the people, but then he abandoned his fears. After all, no one would know about [...]
SLF09 – presentation
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 21, 2009
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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Finally, I’ve got round to posting the few slides I used during my presentation at this year’s Scottish Learning festival. As I said at the time, this presentation was my penultimate one on the work I’ve done with GLOW. The last will be this coming week at the SERA09 conference in Perth, when I present the [...]
EVS, GLOW, and raising attainment.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 5, 2009
- In: change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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I had a very productive meeting with a couple of colleagues today discussing the proposed Electronic Voting System (EVS) research project we’re planning to carry out (with the help of a couple of UG research students from the university) in school over the course of the next session. The design and methodology for this project [...]
The AERS virtual research environment – valuable experience for GLOW?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 30, 2008
- In: capacity-building | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Research | sustainability | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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I was looking through the latest AERS research commentary magazine last night (it’s not on line unfortunately). In this October edition, they have devoted almost the entire space to a discussion of the research around virtual environments (including a large amount of commentry on GLOW) in Scottish education. The front cover names this coverage ‘Glimmer’ implying that whilst [...]
A better week…EePc’s, Gaming and some older research revisited
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 21, 2008
- In: games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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It’s been a better week in school, with light actually becoming visible at the end of a very long tunnel. More staff are coming to see me about getting their GLOW log-ins and arranging training. We are going to be starting GLOW lunchtime/twilight drop in clinics to support staff who want to move forward with [...]
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 [...]
A little bit of controversy…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 18, 2008
- In: change | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | teaching and learning
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I’ve spent the holiday week doing lots of stuff, mainly catch-up and a little reflection. One of the things I’ve had the opportunity to do is to watch a few videos. A few TED talks I’ve been meaning to see, as well as some conference keynotes and seminars from SLF, and also the HHL08 stuff [...]
Did the lights stay on? ICT/GLOW and sustainability
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 17, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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…is going to be the working title of our longitudinal study tracking a secondary school Biology year group over their complete standard grade course, with one of the classes using GLOW to deliver regular embedded ICT content. This is a continuation of this year’s research and should address, amongst other things, the issue of sustainability of [...]
My SLF08 experience…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 4, 2008
- In: games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | Research | teaching and learning | Uncategorized
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With the benefit of a little distance, I thought it was about time I blogged a little about last week’s Scottish Learning Festival. A little hindsight is a great thing, and it’s certainly allowed me to crystallise my thoughts somewhat. For me, this years event was a bit of a watershed. For the previous two [...]
GLOW gets its own page
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 27, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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I’ve collected all my GLOW stuff onto one page in response to many requests for information on what I’m doing. The new page… http://mimanifesto.wordpress.com/my-glow-page/ …is a collection of my posts on GLOW-related stuff, starting from the earliest this year. I have made a brief comment as to the content underneath each link to help with [...]
Self-evaluation – an update
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 26, 2008
This is an update to my post on the self-evaluation web application and the new HMIE inspection process. Regular Self-evaluation embedded into the routine of a school will almost certainly lead to a growing culture of reflection and this can only be good for classroom practice but to start with, if a system such as this could [...]
Big lottery – Big plans
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 9, 2008
- In: games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Quality assurance | teaching and learning
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..just had word that my recent big lottery fund bid has been successful – it means I can now go ahead and buy 10 mini notebooks and 10 Nintendo DS consoles with brain-training software for some out-of-hours school projects we want to run during this session using on-line science based games and DS maths and [...]
GLOW/ICT and raising attainment – research published
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 7, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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The GTCS have now published the report from my research study into using ICT and GLOW to raise attainment. Anyone who is interested can download and read the report by going to this link… http://www.gtcs.org.uk/News/The_future_of_teaching_in_Scottish_schools.aspx My thanks to the GTCS for their support in funding and publishing this study. I’m pretty pleased with his piece [...]
Simplicity and “Ockham’s Razor” – Don’t multiply entities beyond necessity
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 1, 2008
- In: AiFL | ICT | Research
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I was lucky enough to have been able to participate in one of Ewan McIntosh’s ‘inspiration’ seminars at LTS earlier this week. The theme of this particular session was ‘simplicity’. We watched a ‘TED’ talk by David Pogue, a journalist on the New York Times who argued that much of the technology we use is [...]
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