First seminar was YOUR SCHOOL’S OWN RADIO STATION: A FIFE CLUSTER PERSPECTIVE which demonstrated how several primary schools had set up online audio blogs by subscribing to radiowaves.co.uk. The examples (and the young presenters) were very cute and entertaining, and this service might be of interest to some of our small primaries. However my own impression is that any school with a half-decent website could set up something similar at minimal cost with a little one-off technical help.
After a quick lunch I hit PETER PEACOCK’s address, which began with some hearty pats-on-the-back for everyone concerned with putting the Scottish Labour Party’s educational policies into effect. Well almost everyone: apparently plans are in progress to give under-performing teachers a remedial spell as probationers. Otherwise it was the usual promises of greater investment, smaller classes, fullest possible support for teachers. You would be excused for thinking there was an election looming next year.
I stayed in the massive Clyde auditorium (well, the seats were comfortable) to hear American guru David Weinberger expound on EVERYTHING IS MISCELLANEOUS. This was thought-provoking stuff; he reckons the traditional hierarchical knowledge structure which has served us well since the ancient Greek philosophers (knowledge should be systematically categorised like books in a library, with only the tiniest unavoidable fragments left over in the ‘miscellaneous’ box) is rapidly breaking down. The future is ‘Social Knowledge’, represented by Wikipedia, which is now more credible than Encyclopaedia Britannica, since in the former every fact or opinion can be rigorously tested by one’s peers.
I followed this with DIGITAL LITERACY USING MACROMEDIA by Ian Stuart from Islay High School. He reported on a new Digital Design pilot course run as a DIVA project in conjunction with Macromedia and SQA (we discussed applying for this in the Nicolson too, but couldn’t set it up in time). His examples of student-generated web design impressed, and he iterated that this is fast becoming an essential life skill. SQA certification should come on-stream at Intermediate 2 level next session; why was I the only W.I. representative there?
My final seminar of a long day was TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG? by Susan Buchanan of East Dunbartonshire. In it she explained the nature of both Blogs and Podcasts, and how to set them up, bringing up copious illustrations from both primary and secondary schools. Modern Language teachers seem to have taken up podcasting most enthusiastically, confirming my own belief that this technology has a role to play in the teaching of Gaelic locally.
Noel Eadie
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