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Visual Dictionary Online
Shahi Visual Dictionary - a free online tool which lets users enter the desired word and it will generate definition texts from the free online multilingual dictionary Wiktionary along with images from...
View ArticleRoss High pupil, Fiona Scott to present at ICT workshop
6th year pupil, Fiona Scott will be demonstrating her excellent use of speech recognition software at and ICT workshop tomorrow in Edinburgh. Originally Shirley Lawson was going to present the case...
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Improvise a coherent presentation from images you’ve never seen with PechaFlickr
PechaFlickr – for encouraging learners to think on their feet, and have fun as they try to improvise a coherent talk to a presentation of 20 random photographs which they have never seen before, each...
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Digital literacy | NET BLOG
About 20 years ago at an education conference one of the speakers said: “To be literate is to fully inhabit a culture”. At first it felt a little affected or a bit too “luvvie” for my liking. Over time...
View ArticleArts learning resources from The Fruitmarket Gallery
The Fruitmarket Gallery is an art gallery funded by the taxpayer displaying exhibitions of work that are not for sale. The Gallery brings the work of some of the world’s most important contemporary...
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The Hundreds
The non-fiction section of the Library is arranged in numerical order using the Dewey Decimal Classification system. Dewey has ten sections, each with a different hundred. Sciences are 500s, Literature...
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Parentzone
Parentzone Scotland brings together the contents of the previous Parentzone and Scottish Schools Online websites to form a single resource. In the Find a school section, you will find all the schools...
View ArticleBoarding Pass – @FernwoodDT
I saw this idea on Twitter originally and like most of our resources it was amended to our students. The concept is simple the ‘Boarding Pass’ is given to students as they enter the classroom and are...
View ArticleUsing a short, silent film to stimulate independent learning, discussion and...
I was really delighted to be asked by Pedagoo to explain how I would use this short film to enliven learning in my classroom. In this post I am mindful of how to harness the abilities of our visual...
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Free web based resources that teach you how to write code – Summary Post and...
up-dated August 2015 In a country facing a massive shortage of computing teachers we need to eventually face the reality that computing and computer programming are two of those rare things in...
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Wigtown Scots Tour
Wigtown Primary School is taking part in a very exciting Scots Language project. As part of the Wigtown Book Festival, Mrs Steele’s Rhinos (Primary 6/7 class) are devising and recording an audio tour...
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HIGHLY SKILLED STAFF ARE SECTOR LEADING AT PIRIE PARK PRIMARY
Staff at Pirie Park Primary School, Glasgow are being praised for their sector leading approach to supporting children with additional needs and their approach to responsive learning and teaching....
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Regional Events to discuss the draft National Improvement Framework
The First Minister on 1 September 2015 launched a draft National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education. The Framework will bring together, in a more consistent way, the key information that is...
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UnderstandingModernGov conference – June 16th 2015
A little bit delayed by end of term madness… On June 16th I travelled to London for a day long conference organised by UnderstandingModernGov on the subject of Primary Languages – “Successfully...
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Practical Pedagogies Conference 2015
I always get excited when people invite me to speak at conferences but I was very excited when Russel Tarr (created Classtools.net and was famously attacked by Gove for using Mr Men to help teach...
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Edutalk at the Scottish Film and Learning Festival
On Saturday I went along to this event in University of Stracthclyde Innovation Centre. Orgainserd by Rob Smith and Bill Boyd in association with Scottish Film Education. There were over 20...
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Reflections from the #IntelVisionaries Launch Event, October 2015: 6 of 17 –...
This is part of a short series of posts where I reflect on the inaugural Intel Education Visionaries meet up in Santa Clara, California in October 2015....
View ArticleDyslexia Scotland – teachers welcome!
The theme of Dyslexia Awareness Week this year is ‘Making Sense of Dyslexia’, chosen to fit in with Education Scotland’s 2014 report ‘Making Sense: Education for Children and Young People in Scotland’....
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Bookbug – it’s time for you to have your say!
Scottish Book Trust would like to know what professionals think about the Bookbug programme. To do this, our friends at Scottish Book Trust have designed an online survey for you to complete. The...
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Connecting Classrooms via Live Video Link
Connecting classrooms via video link has been found by many teachers to add an extra dimension, an enthusiasm and real audience, to complement learning in a classroom setting. Whether that’s a...
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