On Friday we had the second training session today with the East Lothian Teachers who are taking part in our 2009 Guitar Hero Transition Project. Building on the success of the pilot project in the Musselburgh Cluster last year we are scaling the project up to include all clusters within East Lothian.
The first part of the morning gave cluster teachers a chance to come together to work on their project planning and to exchange ideas.
Next David Gilmore gave a brief overview of how to use Google Sites for education we hope that schools will think about using Google Apps, GLOW and other Web 2.0 tools to help collaborate during the project.
Finally, I gave a short presentation on how we developed the Secondary Transition morning and also shared some of the evaluation results from our 2008 project. The slides I used during the presentation are embedded below.
There was a great
buzz from the teaching staff in the room – I think the next stage of the project
is going to be fantastic!
We are borrowing your ideas and trying our own version on our Shetland island - we are planning to use Glow so our P7s can collaborate with remote partners - thanks for the virtual support!
Posted by: Caroline | March 07, 2009 at 05:02 PM
Are you useing xBoxes? If so how about a virtual link up across schools and 'battle of the bands'? There might also be room for a collaborative GLOW group?
Posted by: OllieBray | March 07, 2009 at 05:26 PM
No we are using Wii - perhaps next year for a group - I'll count it a great success if I can get all of our P7s into a group - might be a step too far to ask for more!
Posted by: Caroline | March 09, 2009 at 10:18 PM