Laurie O'Donnell

 
Well done to Patricia Kemp and the website team at LTS. Another first for Learning and Teaching Scotland  as we launch a unique resource on Apple’s iTunesU to support the professional development of teachers and other practitioners across Scotland and beyond. LTS is the first schools oriented organisation in Europe to make some of its [...]

I was interviewed for the April edition of Futurelab’s Vision e-zine by the roving educational technology journalist and commentator Merlin John.
The article is published under the heading ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet … Scotland’s ICT Renaissance‘.

Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, launched our new curriculum today.
Have a look at our shiny new home page and Scotland’s new curriculum.
This has been a really big task for everyone involved.
From the point of view of the LTS website it is hard to believe how far we have come over the [...]

Lovely tribute from Merlin John on his great website MJO.
Being described as ‘Scotland’s ICT leader’ made me smile and I am sure will raise a few eyebrows (including my own!).

 
The latest version of LTS’ Connected eZine is now available:

 
Bob Stone sent me an email earlier highlighting an article he has published recently on the Governing.com website. Bob worked with Al Gore on the ‘reinventing government programme’ (see his book  ‘Confessions of a Civil Servant’ for this great story).  His latest article draws on his previous work and is entitled the ABC of Leadership.
I [...]

I have been aware of Twitter for the last couple of years – really since our then New Technologies for Learning national adviser Ewan McIntosh started to play around with it. As an infrequent blogger I decided to keep an eye on it but leave it for now.
Anyway signed up for an account a few [...]

 
Sitting at home listening to BBC Radio Scotland’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of Burns’ birth – Auld Lang Sang.
We have just published some new Burns resources for schools (and others) to use on the LTS Online Service. The highlight for me is the Burns songs performed by “The Cast” ( one of Scotland’s finest [...]

Over the last few years we have been using more high quality video to help support the development of professional practice in education. The latest addition to the LTS website is the  Partnership with Employers resource, funded by the Scottish Government’s Determined to Succeed programme.
This project has been managed within LTS by Fiona Andrew and [...]

Our press officer Lee-Ann has just sent me a pdf of a small news article in today’s  Herald with the above headline.
This is really the Glow section of the LTS website (or what we call the LTS Online Service). It looks pretty good and the new sections ‘Glow in Your Area’, ‘Glow in Action’ and [...]