Laurie O'Donnell

My former employer LTS, under instructions from Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond, has just published the address made by Jimmy Reid when he was elected as Rector of Glasgow University in 1972.
The address on the subject of ‘Alienation’ is an impassioned plea for a more humane society
The speech, described at the time by the New [...]

LTS announced earlier in the week that Glow is set to have a bit of facelift and get some long overdue new features.
The addition of blogs and wiki functionality will strengthen Glow as as a platform for communication, collaboration and sharing across the whole educational community.
The extension for a further two years of the [...]

I was very fortunate to be invited back to LTS in Glasgow yesterday to join a delegation from Australia who were across to have a look at our national schools intranet  Glow. The delegation was led by Greg Whitby, CEO of the 80 schools in the Parramatta Diocese of Sydney.
This was a really inspirational session [...]

Another interview with Merlin John on innovation at LTS. This time for Futurelab’s online magazine.
It sits well with the interview with Michael Hallisay in my previous post as a good description of what we were trying to do when I was at LTS. It’s for others to judge the success or otherwise but few countries [...]

International Podcast #15 interview with Michael Hallisay. Discussion of ICT developments in Scotland around June 2009.

Another really great SLF. It felt  really strange just walking around meeting people and enjoying the event without having any responsibilities.
I ended up spending a lot of time catching-up with old friends and former colleagues and for a change was not dashing off to chair a session or attend a launch.
Apart from the very important [...]

I’ve been blogging about Glow for quite a few years now and have celebrated small each step along the way as the world’s first national schools intranet slowly became a reality.
This evening I was delighted to see my 13 year old daughter log onto Glow to do her maths homework. Although she decided to write [...]

I left LTS at the end of June to work for myself and am in the process of moving this blog to my new website which will go live early in August.

It seems like only yesterday that I blogged about my decison to leave LTS to work for myself. It felt like a big step on the 25th March announcing to the world that I was moving on after 8 years. I really liked being able to blog and tweet my departure (what did we do [...]

More good news for Glow While I was in Barcelona I was delighted to hear that Falkirk Council has signed the Glow Customer Agreement (effectively the licence to make Glow available to teachers, pupils and parents in the local authority area).
That takes us to 31/32 of the Scottish local authorities. My understanding is [...]