Laurie O'Donnell

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 is now 5 days since I left the ranks of the salaried public sector to become self employed. At the moment it just feels like the school holidays in the years when I was a teacher … and I am loving it
My plan is to take most of July to get myself [...]

Well I have managed 61 posts over the last 15 months – getting close to one a week. Much better than I managed the first time round with my blog back in 2005. Some weeks and months have been better than others but I seem to have established the habit.
Key turning points in getting my [...]

After reading Don Ledingham’s article in TESS (version from Don’s Learning Log) this morning I have decided to change ‘Laurie’s Blog’ to ‘Laurie’s Learning Log’. The alliteration makes it sound much better for a start but I also think the case that Don makes is compelling. Like Don I want to use my learning [...]

I have had a pretty mad few weeks will wall-to-wall meetings and not taken the time to blog. I can’t believe my last post was on the 29 November. I plan to commit some time over the next couple of weeks so look out.

Purpose of this blog? No single purpose but rather multipurpose.
First and foremost I will use it as a journal and try to make a weekly entry focussing on how LTS is taking forward the learning and technology agenda in Scotland through the two main programmes we are managing – Glow and the Schools ICT Programme [...]

I started a blog last year but didn’t sustain it – a combination of (in reverse order) a poor user interface for the blog software we were using, no clearly thought out purpose for keeping it, a new laptop and a failure to commit the time to maintain and develop it. Since then I have [...]