RBS Visit
Primary 6/7 March 12, 2010, 9:04 am On Wednesday primary 6/7 had a visit from a lady called Sandra Kirby from the Royal Bank of Scotland. She was talking  to us about currency and finances and showed us the old money before the countries had the  Euro.  We got to play on an ATM on the white board and take out pretend money.  She told us what cards [...]

Progress of Curriculum for Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence in East Lothian March 12, 2010, 8:55 am Click here to download a? letter from Scottish Government Director of Learning to all teachers that provides an update on progress and invites teachers and all relevant staff to complete an online survey. [from LTS website] Click here to go straight to the survey?

On the buses
Guineapig Mum March 12, 2010, 8:38 am Long, long ago, in my student days, I went to a talk by David Owen at Strathclyde University.  It was around the time that the Gang of Four were breaking away from the Labour Party to form the Social Democratic Party.  It was the first time I?d been to a public lecture by someone of [...]

Fantastic Mr Fox!
Easter Carmuirs Primary School March 12, 2010, 8:34 am Primary 3 read Fantastic Mr. Fox all together. We really enjoyed it and some of us took turns to read it to others. We did puzzle sheets and made up a wordsearch on the computer using words from the story Two groups designed and made diggers. Another group learned how to use a Thesaurus to [...]

Links for 2010-03-11 [del.icio.us]
edu.blogs.com March 12, 2010, 8:00 am

• Donald Clark Plan B: Moodle: e-learning?s Frankenstein
  Educationalists love to talk about learner-centric, constructivist models of learning but usually default back into a didactic, lecture-driven, ?I teach-you learn?, behaviour. Stray too far from the current model and any LMS will collapse into a soup of collaborative connectivity.
• Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management
  18 Use Cases That Show Business How to Finally Put Customers First.
  
  Customers continue to adopt social technologies at a blinding speed ? yet organizations are unable to keep up. Why? Rapid adoption of social networking enables users to connect with individuals and communities who share mutual interests, increasingly leaving organizations out of the conversation. Simply hiring more people to keep up with social marketing, sales, and support will not be sufficient, as consumers and their new channels will always outnumber employees. As a result, companies need an organized approach using enterprise software that connects business units to the social web ? giving them the opportunity to respond in near-real time, and in a coordinated fashion.
• YouTube - DimensionM NYC Tournament
  December 14, 2007 Tabula Digita Multiplayer Educational Gaming Tournament in New York City
• Bridgewater Primary School » About Us
  Primary school website built on Wordpress
• Creating Value on the Vine: A [yellow tail] Case Study by William Kimbrell
  Innovation and Identifying Blue Oceans
  
  Instead of giving up, they sought to learn from experience. They rented a car and drove across America. They did not tour wine country in California, nor did they visit different wineries and vineyards.
  Instead, they went the unconventional route?going to honky-tonks, beer halls, drive-through liquor stores, mom-and-pop liquor stores, as well as big-box outlets, nightclubs and drugstores. They actually observed beer drinkers.
  
  Casella Wines found that the mass of American adults saw wine as a turnoff. It was intimidating and pretentious and required cultivating a discerning taste. With these insights, they were ready to explore how to redraw the strategic profile of the U.S. wine industry. This is what we call a Blue Ocean Framework.

Campie Musical Evening
Alan Coady's Musical Blog March 12, 2010, 7:30 am Last night saw another successful Campie Musical Evening in Musselburgh Grammar School (bigger hall - more parents can fit in). The enthusiasm of so many brave, smiling young people taking to the stage was infectious. The evening comprised Guitars, Brass, Recorders, Choir, Scottish Country Dance, Jazz Dance. Guitar and Brass being timetabled, class-time lessons, it?s [...]

Reflections from the 2010 #EducationShow (7 of 10) ? Great Gizmos and Education Harbour
Ollie Bray March 12, 2010, 7:00 am This is the seventh in a series of ten posts about my recent visit to the 2010 Education Show in Birmingham. They document some of the products that I saw, liked and enjoyed from the exhibition. Now any exhibition stand...

?Have you tried turning it off and on again?? ? Roy from ?The IT Crowd?
Hileryjane March 12, 2010, 5:53 am I am going on some training later today to learn about how to create an online course. We have been asked to have materials ready so that the exercise is not entirely theoretical. So far, so good. However, unless we are in the ranks of the exalted few who have been provided with a pendrive from IT, [...]

Curriculum for Excellence timeline
#learnerham March 12, 2010, 12:36 am Will CfE be implemented in August 2010?  That is the hot topic of the moment. This has been hot on twitter for the last few days, prompted by Tuesday?s Newsnight Scotland and First Ministers Questions this week. The BBC seems to suggest that CfE might be postponed by a year to ease secondary teachers concerns. The Curriculum for Excellence Management [...]

Campie?s Musical Evening
Campie Primary School March 12, 2010, 12:13 am We?re just home from a superb musical evening, listening to a huge number of Campie children entertain us with their musical talent.  Brass, Guitars, Recorders, Scottish and Jazz dance and our Choir left us all feeling uplifted by their energy and skill.  The teachers had worked so hard to get the children ready so thank [...]

DU Residence Hall Energy Consumption Project
Adobe Diva March 11, 2010, 11:47 pm Benjamin Zenner, a student at the University of Denver, has come up with a project to monitor energy consumption at the campus residence halls and display the information to students using a touchscreen interface. The electric meters at five...