“Building Learning Communities”
This is the title of a major conference taking place in Boston this month, organised by Alan November and which is being covered extensively by Ewan McIntosh on his blog. Ewan has been a real driving force for encouraging teachers to embrace the opportunities that “web 2.0 ” can offer.I have been reading his posts with great interest and want to find out as much as I can about how schools can use tools such as wikis, blogs and file sharing sites (eg Flickr,) to create exciting new learning communities. Ewan will be speaking at the conference, and his topics will cover:
1. The concept of Social Media-the idea of “connections”
2 How LT Scotland is looking at the use of social media in schools, ie how education can take advantage of social media, game-making and playing
3 An Adoption Strategy for Social Software in Education, citing the example of East Lothian, where Ewan and colleagues have used business strategies to successfully integrate new technologies and teaching into their schools.
