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• Literacy, CfE and ICT

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  Edinburgh City had their in-service day on Monday 26th October. All Scottish Schools have been given an extra in-service day to help them plan for the roll out of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) from August 2010. I was asked by Drumond Community High School to go along and deliver a session on ...
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• The Tempest from Classical Comics

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  I have spoken before about my passion for graphic novels and how I think they are so engaging for encouraging literacy and creativity within young people. There are lots of types of graphic novels that are available for teachers and Learning and Teaching Scotland has published a great graphic novels resource for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tim Rylands – HHL09 and African Safari

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  (photo: James Clay ) I’ve heard lots about Tim Rylands and have followed his blog for a long time. Tim is the king of education web links, a clearly a talented teacher, fantastic presenter, PowerPoint Jedi and knowledgeable education consultant. I was lucky enough to meet Tim at Handheld Learning 2009 – I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate Change Resources for Schools - Blog Action Day 2009

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
    Today is Blog Action Day. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the worlds bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. First and last, the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Using data to tell stories – A Microsoft ITN InnoVid

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  In 2003 I had just completed the Learning and Teaching Scotland Masterclass Programme . At the time this was a three day residential where I was given a laptop and provided with training on how to become an ambassador in ICT. On reflection the experience gave me so much classroom confidence that I consider it to ...
  3 weeks ago

• ICT in Geography PGDE Lecture - University Edinburgh (October 2009)

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  I met with an enthusiastic bunch of PGDE Students at Edinburgh University today where we talked about ICT in Education. I promised that I would post the links and slides from the talk so here they are: PGDE Geography Workshop – September 2009 Free Tools for Teachers – October 2009 Games ...
  4 weeks ago

• Creating Classroom Comics

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  Regular readers of this website will no that I have a real passion for the use of comics and graphic novels in the classroom. My favorite free on-line comic creation tools at the moment are Comic Brush and Pixton. Comic Brush ( www.comicbrush.com ) is a bit like a free version of Comic Life and it allows you ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mutha (Don’t Wanna Go To School Today)

  
  Mr W's Blogging Great Thing — Authority: 388
  Greg Whitby is surely one of the most forward thinking Directors of Education anywhere in the world. Fact. Even better, he kindly took time out of his fact-finding visit to LTS to speak to a group of learners and educators about some of the changes he’s made to Parramatta Diocese in Sydney and the 80 or so ...
  4 weeks ago

• Meeting Greg Whitby

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  After work today I got to spend a few hours with Greg Whitby I was really impressed with Greg’s style, philosophy and passion for education. I left the session feeling very inspired (and that’s not a word I use very often). Like many others I first came across Greg in this short YouTube video – if you have ...
  4 weeks ago

• National Intranet, National Virtual World and Now National Blogs and Wiki’s

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  Recent comments from colleagues who live and work elsewhere in the UK at the Handheld Learning Festival 2009 reminded me that I am very lucky to work within the education ICT sector in Scotland. Yes, there are always things that can be improved but I actually think we are pretty lucky. The reasons for this ...
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• Free Tools for Teachers: Handheld Learning Conference 2009

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 514
  During the Spotlight Scotland Session at the Handheld Learning Festival 2009 I was given the task of talking about free tools for teachers. My role within Learning and Teaching Scotland involves quite a bit of time out on the road speaking to teachers and school leaders. When we run CPD we often speak about free ...
  4 weeks ago

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