Scottish Information Literacy Project

The third Scottish Information Literacy Project Open Meeting will take place on Wednesday 16th September between 10.0am  and 4.15 pm  at Glasgow Caledonian University. It is a free event to encourage maximum participation.  The programme is enclosed below. As with last year’s event there will be a strong focus on partnership involvement with presentations by  [...]

Recently I attended the launch of the Ofcom Scotland Communications Market report, published on August 6th 2009. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/features/cmrscot.  Ofcom staff presented the report and much of the discussion centred round the decline in spending by BBC Scotland and STV and there was concern about low Broadband take-up in Glasgow. There is really only one page [...]

  This is clearly an extremely helpful piece of work and will attract much interest and many citations.  We particularly like it because it highlights issues about which we have been campaigning for some time. It also draws attention to action needs and points which again reflect our experience. There are useful references to staff [...]

I have been reading the Digital Britain report www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/digital_britain_interimreportjan09.pdf which is certainly to be welcomed. It takes a ‘whole population’ approach rather than specific sectors and has things to say about media literacy and also copyright which is not surprising as Andrew Gowers, the author of the Gowers report on copyright,  is a member of [...]

I only managed to attend one of the sesions on emerging technology Are we sharing our toys in the sandpit? A discussion on issues surrounding the re-use and re-purposing of electronic information literacy learning objects in the UK. where there emerged lots of the issues surrounding this area and the possiblity of interested parties coming together. The use of [...]

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 [...]

On Thursday 30th October 2008 we were one of five speakers at the E-Books Conference at the Lighthouse in Glasgow. The Lighthouse is an amazing building and I took the opportunity to take the lift to the sixth floor to see the roof top view of Glasgow which must be amazing at night time so [...]