Jelly’s Jottings

Last week I was lucky enough to go to the naace conference in Torquay. It was a long way from home and I thought I was the only Scot until Thursday. Then, thanks to the catalyst of Laurie O’Donnell who was giving a presentation on “The Scottish Experience”, I met Henry Paton from Inverclyde and [...]

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I’m ashamed that I didn’t blog, blog, blog regularly after the New Technology Residential at Stirling back in March. I’ve been learning, and starting to actually do, a lot since then so maybe I’ll have something to write about soon!
Bob Hill, who is becoming a blogger of some renown has been helping our new ICT [...]

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Still letting all the ideas from last week swirl around in my head! I know I must think through the best ways to use what I learned and allow some of the possiblities I caught a glimmer of, to come to fruition…and practise the basic skills and procedures so I don’t give the wrong info [...]

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The group I was in have been perfecting the blog PCPod and had it praised by James Farmer – whom John says is an ace blogger!

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Today we tried out some voting systems and had some fun but the possible positive outcomes for learning and teaching were more than matched by the unreliability of the products we tried and the expense…. a technology for the future but difficult to justify at present. Kids (even big kids!) are motivated by cheap little [...]

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I learned such a lot today. Lots to follow up after tantalising tastes of so many possibilities! Blogging, podcasting, storing bookmarks online, showing off to the world, tagging and sorting and sharing….

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This is my first attempt at a blog. I am having a brilliant if scary time here at Stirling Management Centre. We have had interesting, stimulating presentations and will eventually have to do some deep and meaningful tasks!….. but first of all we get to play and practice using the posting system.

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