Archive for September, 2009
Scottish Learning Festival 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 [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2009 under Diary, Education, Events, LTS, Learning.
Tags: @laurieod, LTS, Mindset, OECD, SLF Live, slf09, Twitter
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Glow Goes Live – In My House
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 [...]
Posted: September 13th, 2009 under Education, Events, Glow, LTS, Learning.
Tags: Glow, LTS
Comments: 1
Do Be
Now into my second month and beginning to find my feet in this new world of self-employment.
One of the roles I have added to my portfolio is that of adviser/consultant to Do Be Ltd, a small Fife based company working in the area educational resources and training/cpd. It’s a new kind of experience for me [...]
Posted: September 2nd, 2009 under Education.
Tags: Do Be, resources, Teach It, www.laurieodonnell.co.uk
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Lumiar Schools
I have been doing some work with Bristol based Futurelab and one of my roles involves exploring work undertaken by the Lumiar Institute of São Paulo in Brazil.
I attended the Learning and Technology World Forum in London in January and really enjoyed listening to Ricardo Semler the Chief Executive of SEMCO talking about the the [...]
Posted: September 1st, 2009 under Education, Events, FutureLab, Learning, Movies, People.
Tags: 21st century learning, FutureLab, innovative schools, LATWF09, Ricardo Semler
Comments: 1