The learners of St Michael’s primary in Dumfries and Galloway Council are delighted to do their bit for #digilearnscot week!

Supported by Mrs Cubbon, they will be the first class to take up the Digital Storytelling Challenge on Monday 2nd March

On Thursday 5th, the St Michael’s team will be doing yet more storytelling and taking the time to present and record some of the ways that they use technology in their learning.

There are two ways that learners and educators from all over Scotland can join in:

One – Post messages for the St Michael’s young learners using the tag #stmichaels on the Glow Learners’ community at http://bit.ly/learnershome

Watch for the contributions on the Digilearn wiki as soon as possible

Teachers from Dundee and neighbouring authorities are invited to attend this Digital Technologies event in the Dundee Science Centre. Dundee Teachers can book via Dundee’s internal CPD online system and anyone else wishing to attend can contact louise.foreman@dundeecity.gov.uk

Local technology & games design companies, Universities and partner agencies will exhibit and share knowledge and experiences of employability within the technology industry.

Schools will exhibit and share some of the innovative ways in which digital technologies are impacting on learning and teaching.

There will also be an opportunity to take part in a workshop with Dundee University to learn inspiring and engaging ways to teach Binary Coding with some of our younger learners.

This is a great opportunity for you to come along and learn something new. Give IT a go and join us for this exciting event!

Digital TeachMeet Falkirk #DigiLearnScot

Thursday 5 March 2015

5pm – 7pm

Refreshments from 4:30pm

St Mungo’s High School, Falkirk, FK2 7JT

Education professionals from any sector and from any geographical area are invited to this TeachMeet which has a theme of the use of technology to enhance the learning of our pupils. Anyone can share great ideas no matter how big or how small as long as it incorporates the use of technologies. Find out more and sign up here:

http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/w/page/92353827/Digital%20TeachMeet%20Falkirk

Email the organisers via digitalteachmeetfalkirk@gmail.com

Follow on Twitter @FDTeachMeet

Calling all learners!

From 2nd to 6th March, we’re going to co-create stories using Word Online on Glow.

There will be story starters published at 9am on the 2nd March. At 9.30, the learners of St Michael’s Primary in Dumfries will write the first chapter.

Classes who sign up each get about an hour to write their chapter of the story. The twist is the storyline and characters have to flow, that’s the fun bit! Any learner or educator can ‘tune in’ and see the story developing live.

By the end of the week, we will have three fab co-written stories!

There are three separate storytelling experiences. To take part, you should ask your teacher to read the Teacher guide – storytelling for digilearnscot week and sign you up on one of the spaces on Glow

• Storytelling 1 (First and Second levels)
• Storytelling 2 (Third and Fourth levels)
• Storytelling 3 (First and Second levels) <just added!>

 

Another learning experience brought to you by #digilearnscot

Have you always dreamt of becoming a super spy?…Well your secret agent staff training can begin right now!

On Thursday 5^th March there will be an event to train specially gifted staff recruits which will be held at Educations Scotland, Floor 9, Optima Building, 58 Robertson Street, Glasgow starting at 17:00 hours.

Only the best will do… if you believe you have outstanding abilities and obvious potential to be a SUPER SPY then sign up to the event by emailing digitallearningcommunity@gmail.com

As part of the Digital Learning Week, Education Scotland will be holding an entertaining and informative event for practitioners with a passion for technology and a sense of fun. Once you arrive at the Optima building you will put into teams. Your own personal agent will lead you through a series of secret missions while you learn about different innovative technologies and find out about the different events that have been held throughout #DigiLearnScot week.

Should you choose to accept this mission you will be entering the secret world of international espionage. You will be competing against and training along with fellow recruits testing your special agent skills, breaking secret codes and much more…

This TeachMeet is in Preston Lodge High School, Park View, Prestonpans, EH32 9QJ and is part of the National Digital Learning Community’s Digital Learning Week. The programme looks like this:

6pm Arrival & Networking
6.20pm Welcome & Introduction
6.30pm Micro & Nano Presentations I
7.05pm Learning Conversations
7.25pm Micro & Nano Presentations II
7.55pm Closing Remarks
8pm Close

You can sign up for clicking on the link below and entering your details in the document. You have four options when signing up…although one of these options is to attend and join in, we really need some folk to sign up to be presenters or to lead learning conversations – otherwise it won’t be much of a TeachMeet! As this is part of the Digital Learning Week, we’re really wanting presentations and conversations which focus on digital learning…with a real emphasis on the *learning*. In other words, not just what digital tools are you using, but why are you using them and what impact are they having on learning in your context. PowerPoint is strongly discouraged in all types of presentations. Presenters will be chosen at random on the night.

So, your options are…

• You can sign up to attend and be prepared to deliver a 7-minute micro presentation.
• You can sign up to attend and be prepared to deliver a 2-minute nano presentation.
• You can sign up to attend and lead a learning conversation…you’ll be asked to suggest a discussion question when signing up, please make this related to digital learning. You can ask a question that you’re grappling with yourself, if you are other people will be too. And yes, you can sign up to lead a learning conversation as well as signing up to present you keen bean you.
• You can sign up to attend…but you’ll still be expected to join right in and share your thoughts and ideas.

If this sounds like this is right up your street then click the link below and get yourself signed up…

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OOjA19_QVPnemFkvV2GAGIMBlDaduW13KW9Vn5BGwx4/edit

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The aim of the National Digital Learning Week is to:

• share the innovative and exciting ways in which learners are using digital technologies in school
  
• develop a National Digital Learning Community comprising teachers/educators across Scotland
  
• encourage pledges from educators about what they are going to do next to change their practice

Have a look at what is happening.

Be inspired and get involved

This is your chance to give I.T. a go!

 

If you have an idea of your own

Get in touch with us using whichever method below suits and let us know what you’r planning

 

Use Glow

 

Log on to bit.ly/digilearnscot

Use the events button to tell us your plans.

 

Use Email

Email digitallearningcommunity@gmail.com to share your plans.

We will include them in our calendar of events for you.

 

Use Twitter

 

 

Tweet @ndlcscot what you are planning – remember to use the #digilearnscot

Please let us know if your event is going to be public or private.