Scottish Information Literacy Project

On Tuesday 17th February Christine and I went to Aberdeen to visit David Gibbons – Wood, a senior lecturer in the Business School at Robert Gordon University who has obtained over £400,000 in European funding to run training programmes for SMEs in the Aberdeen area. So far he has enrolled 20 businesses that are providing [...]

I have been reading the recently published Skills utilisation literature review, a report by CFE for the Education Analytical Services, Lifelong Learning Research, Scottish Government (Executive summary and full text vailable at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/12/15114643/0) which aims ‘to bring together evidence on the topic of skills utilisation to provide a clear picture of the nature and extent [...]

On Friday 28th, November last year Christine and I attended  the Scottish Library and Information Council Further Education  conference, at the invitation of Catherine Kearney, Assistant Director of SLIC to whom, Many Thanks. At the end of the day we were interviewed about our work by Philip Pothen, at that time, the JISC Press and [...]

Brilliant article about school librarians in TESS includes our very own Ian McCracken, Govan High who is a project partner and on our project advisory group. Article also includes quotes / case studies from other activists in the field: Duncan Wright, convener of the School Library Association (Scotland) and librarian at Stewart Melville’s College; Wendy [...]

Thanks to Carol Stewart who notified me about the BBC Learning Officer’s blog in which Cathy Fraser talks about students and social networking. Here is her final comment from the blog posting. “Students are certainly taking advantage of social networking on their own. Might as well tap into that passion and use it to improve [...]

At the end of November John and I attended the SLIC FE Conference ( see John’s post) and one of the speakers was Phil Bradley described in the programme as the “Well known Internet consultant, librarian and popular CILIP ‘Update’ columnist”. During his presentation he talked about practical uses for Web 2.0 which he described [...]