foolfillment: the blog

This time last year I was getting excited about going to the Scottish Learning Festival, this year I’m not sure yet if I will be going. I had expected not to be but things have changed slightly and I might be heading up for the Thursday at least. It’s still up in the air at the moment but I’ve booked into some seminars just in case I do get to go. In a similar fashion to last year and some other people in the Scottish Edubloggosphere (how I hate that word) are doing tonight, I am going to list my plans below:
Wednesday:
09:30 Making Connections: Taking a Global Approach to Teaching
10:30 Cabinet Secretary’s Address
12:30 Why: Understanding what we need to do differently to motivate students to learn
Thursday:
10:30 Motivating Every Learner
12:00 The shape of things to come: personalisation and collaboration in education
14:00 Opportunities for Embedding Enterprise Skills for Life and Work

And, of course, if I do make it to Glasgow I will definitely be heading to TeachMeet08* on Wednesday evening. If I do make it along I’ll be adding myself to the list of speakers - possibly just the 2 minute nano-presentations - to talk about goodness only knows what

If I do end up going I’ll have to miss a few classes, which I had really hoped not to do so early in to my time at my new school, but at the same time I’m really hoping I’ll get to go.

* Yes, this does mean I’m not putting on a small scale version in the Borders on the same night. BUT, I am still hopeful of getting something sorted out in the not so distant future.

On AB’s prompt I’m noting what I’m doing when I got to the Scottish Learning Festival next week.
I can only go for the Wednesday but I’ll be trying to pack in as much as I can, starting off with Ewan McIntosh’s We’re Adopting session, then Our Journey to Excellence along the Microtech Road and finishing up with Stephen Heppell’s keynote Twenty First Century Learning.

Then of course I’ll be heading over the bridge to TeachMeet07.

I’ll be busy twittering and hopefully doing some live-ish blogging throughout the day too.

I’m also wondering if I’ll have the time to get to the In the Wild event in the afternoon.