Line-rider is a wee game that lets you make your own tracks for a wee guy to sled down. Sounds simple, but it’s very fun and very addictive.
Going to try a bit of design through line-rider. Get pupils to try out levels and then talk about what works, what doesn’t, and what makes a good […]

Common Futures, Different Pasts- Global solutions to curriculum challenge
Curriculum is changing everywhere. Everyone is working on developing curriculum, but no one is getting it completely correct.
Curriculum for Excellence - a good approach, but is it enough?
Common futures, different pasts.
Countries come from different places, with different political, ideological pasts.
We are all part of a global economy […]

Scran is an online resource storing collections of images, videos, text etc, copyright-approved for schools in Scotland.
Scribble is the social networking part of Scran.
Background- tap into the social networking vibe
Used edublogs model - for licensed scran users.
All users log in and can store “my stuff”. Pupils, staff and home users can use it.
Communities can be […]

At the glow seminar with Stephen Heppell, and will try my hand at keeping up with him..
A few hundred glow mentors here!
Why is online learning so imporant?
Historical look at online communities - prestel
A basic system like prestel was popular. Technology was very seductive to pupils and staff.
94 to 97: Schools online: Who’s online feature very […]

My presentation is tomorrow at 13:40! At the Learning Teaching Scotland stand!
Please come. Saw another game maker’s presentation today and it was great. Hopefully mine will be ok!
So far I have spent a lovely four hours at the scottish learning festival. I’m home again now as I decided to come and drop off all the […]

Me talk about Neverwinter Nights tomorrow at the Scottish Learning Festival 13:40 at the LTS stand. Hurrah!

I’ve been worrying that I’ve not got enough notes/materials behind the work I’m doing on Neverwinter Nights. The pupils are not getting notes or getting long tutorials on the application.
I started pupils off with Neverwinter Nights today by asking them what makes a good game. We talked about what was good and what was rubbish […]

Sorry, it’s been ages since last update. I’ve been back at school two weeks now and it’s been great so far. I’ve started using Neverwinter Nights with the S1 aCfE class. So far so good. The kids are loving it.
More on this and other things later.