Laurie O'Donnell

 
I had the had opportunity to hear Malcolm Gladwell’s keynote on his then recently published book ‘The Tipping Point’ at NECC 2004 in New Orleans. LTS had taken 10 ICT Masterclassers to the event as part of a study visit to see what was happening in the world of educational technology beyond Scotland. We all [...]

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

After eight great years with LTS I have decided it is time for a change.
I am going to leave my post as Director of Learning and Technology in the summer to start up my own business.
The plan is to develop a portfolio career picking up bits and pieces of work here and there and helping [...]

Another great example of how our national schools intranet is really starting to make an impact on learning across the country. This post from the Glow Scotland blog really made me smile with 60 schools and over 1,000 children joining together to hear the story of Percy the Puffin.

 
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 [...]

News item in this morning’s Times Educational Supplement Scotland (TESS) on Glow.
Great to see how Glow is being used. Who could have predicted this?

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 [...]