Inspirational Learning Spaces

Good afternoon everyone,

Well done to all of our school investigation teams for visiting the Mining Museum to help us solve this terrible crime. Many theories and ideas were shared last week between each group and I am hoping with your expertise we can find the culprit.

During your visit, many of you collected and gathered possible evidence which I am going to share below incase you missed anything. Every piece of evidence is crucial.

 Plaster with blood

 Cotton bud with soil from a shoe

 Lipstick on a tissue

 Spanner

 Smashed Rolex watch

 Notepad with code

 Torn newspaper article

 Broken glasses

 Black glove

 Note and envelope

 Aerial view map of museum

 Photograph

 Cup with lipstick mark

 Padlock

 Laptop

I hope this is useful information. Thank you again for your participation in this investigation and I look forward to hearing from you on our Yammer investigation group.

Thank you,

Mayberry Police

Professor Stephen Heppell visited Midlothian in January to meet with our ILS project teachers. Here are some of the things they had to say…

It’s been an exciting couple of months, with lots of amazing research being produced and the mi:SPACE project is well underway. Our classes have been researching, making models, participating in the first of our STEM projects, designing, testing and now they’re beginning to order things to change their learning spaces! Behind the scenes there is lots of hard work being done too.

Keeping track of all of your orders on the biggest spreadsheet!

Keeping the brochures up to date and making lots of notes of things to add and remember to do.

This is my cheatsheet for getting around to all the schools! Also underneath is a test print from the new large format printer, which we will be offering out printing options to the schools for them to make posters, graphics and banners for their spaces.

A mountain of VEX robotics kits, which are waiting to be updated, and then they will be heading out to school in the next few weeks for our classes to start their next STEM project. Next week some of our classes will be giving their final presentations to the EDT engineers and other experts, sharing their projects for designing and making an ‘Eco School’.

Floor plans for the building and digital services, to help with painting, physical alterations and connectivity throughout the project.

Following our visit to the Scottish Learning Festival and meeting other ILS project schools, the mi:SPACE team visited Falkirk HS, Larbert HS and Grangemouth HS to find out how they have planned their projects. This was an interesting day for the team to gather information and think about what we are doing in Midlothian.

Each school involved have taken a different approach. Two schools have a STEM based focus and the other a Creative Industries focus. It was a great opportunity to try out some of the furniture and technology available in our mi:SPACE catalogue. This included interactive surfaces, moveable furniture, writeable surfaces and walls.

It’s great to see lots of tweets this evening from our mi:SPACE schools sharing their learning and experiences from VEX Robotics training today at the National Mining Museum. It looks like everyone had lots of fun and have exciting information to take back to their classrooms. Pupils from Newtongrange Primary School also joined staff this afternoon to find out more and test out the robotics. We are looking forward to the training sessions coming up over the next few days.

Happy Monday mi:SPACE

A few teachers have mentioned they have some film clips of the work they have been doing in class that they would like to share.

I have created a ‘mi:SPACE’ video channel on Glow which is a safe and secure way of sharing footage of those involved. I have created a quick how to guide if you are interested in doing so here: Uploading Video

Looking forward to meeting two tomorrow night.

Thanks,

mi:SPACE team

Thank you to all of those who attended last nights session on Green Screen. We are looking forward to seeing some of the work you are doing with this on our mi:SPACE Glow Video channel. For those looking for more guidance or anyone who missed out last night, the following tutorial I found on YouTube is really useful to help you get started!

YouTube Tutorial

Thanks!

It was a great experience face timing pupils at Lasswade PS. If this is something every other school would be interested in, please contact a.ward@mgfl.net

Following a week of voting via Glow Forms, we are happy to announce that we have a winning name!

Please see the results below:

Although this is the winning name, if your class has already selected a name for their own space that is great! This winning name will be used for the blog and correspondence to keep us all on the same page.

We look forward to the future of mi:SPACE and everything happening in the months ahead.