BBC Radio Scotland award finalists hit the road http://www.creativescotland.com/news/bbc-radio-scotland-award-finalists-hit-the-road-11102011
Creative Scotland announces that the cream of Scotland’s young traditional musical talent is touring the country in the next few weeks. Coming together as the TMSA Young Trad Tour 2011, the group consists of the six finalists of this year’s BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award, together with the winner of the 2010 Award.
Reinventing tourist books for the 21st Century
Elgin heritage project seeks recruits http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_news/news_76590.html
Community groups and individuals interested in Elgin’s heritage are being invited to join an exciting project led by the National Library of Scotland in partnership with Moray Council’s libraries service. Great Escapes involves the creation of multi-media tourist guides based on historic maps, images, films and memories of places. The project makes use of new technology to reinvent tourist guidebooks for the 21st century and also encourages people to explore the historic and natural environment in more depth. Local schools have already signed up but opportunities remain for community groups or individuals to become involved.
Glow Key Contacts added to Creativity Portal
You can now easily access the Education Scotland pages for your Glow Key Contacts. Simply click Find your Local Authority Creative Learning Contact to find all the creative contacts in your local authority.
Your Glow Key Contact may be able to offer you local CPD, Glow user accounts, and problem solve any obstacles you may encounter.
Mathematics, advanced physics and knitting – a unique blog by a mathematical sheep
This excellent blog had been added to the Creativity Portal database of Articles and Links.
You may even want to subscribe to it.
The latest post sees the sheep using new technology to discuss Infinity with S6 pupils – not so much knitting in this one.
Words 2011 – North Lanarkshire’s Festival of Books and Writing
This is taking place from 3 – 31 October, and is North Lanarkshire Council’s sixth festival. It offers something for everyone with a varied programme of well known authors and family events.
http://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16384
Pupil sees winning artwork plastered on local buses
Ancrum pupil poster prize
http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/news/index/article?article_ref=1519&month=10&year=2011
A Dundee school pupil will be keeping a close eye on the local buses in the coming weeks to see if she can spot her handiwork. A pupil who attends Ancrum Road Primary School, was picked as the winner of the Dundee Travel Active poster competition and has been to Lochee Park to see part of her prize.
Digital Future Of Scotland’s Heritage
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/news/news_article.htm?articleid=33319
Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop explored the Digital Future of Scotland’s Heritage today.
Shipbuilding, Museums, Creativity and Cookbooks
The Future of Glow – the online debate closes on Monday
The online debate will close on Monday and I would encourage you to register with the Cabinet Minister’s wiki to share any views and experiences you might have:
Recently Michael Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning made an announcement on the future direction of ICT in Scottish schools. The full announcement is broadcast on Engage for Education (http://engageforeducation.org) but in summary the key points were:
· With immediate effect the current Glow Futures procurement has been stopped
· An open online discussion will take place to help shape the current thinking and shape of what Glow will become.
· On 17 October the Scottish Government will hold an ICT summit in Stirling where the results of the online discussion and way forward will be considered
Glow is an incredibly powerful resource that has a significant impact on teaching practices and has benefitted practitioners, young people and others involved in education across Scotland. This announcement is a real opportunity as it recognises that Scotland has been acknowledged as a leader in ICT in education in recent times, and that we are equally determined to ensure that we remain at the cutting edge in this area in the years ahead.
The key message for you is that Glow is being given even stronger backing than ever from Scottish Government and Glow will continue with business as usual until the current contract continues ends in September 2012. At this point all content will be migrated across to the new tools being used – meaning your work so far and over the next year within Glow will not be lost or lose its value. The likely benefits of the new approach are that the tools we offer will be far more familiar to you, and the skills needed to use them will be far more transferable (just as Glow Blogs make use of the popular WordPress technology).
National Poetry Day 2011 – Thursday 6th October
National Poetry Day <http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/> 2011 is on Thursday 6 October.
To celebrate the occasion, we feature the work of six contemporary Scottish poets. These poems were included in the pamphlets shortlisted for our 2011 Callum Macdonald Memorial Award <http://www.nls.uk/about-us/awards/callum-macdonald-memorial-award> .
