Scottish Information Literacy Project

A couple of weeks ago (November 30th- 1st December) I attended an invitation only conference in Wales on the theme of ‘An Information Literacy Strategy for Wales?’  which was held at the attractively situated if geographically inconvenient University of Wales conference centre at Gregynog House.
All LIS sectors and Welsh education were represented and I was [...]

 Last month, before the Scottish Learning Festival took place (23-24 September), attendees were invited to submit questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education for her to answer.  I submitted the question below but only a few were answered directly by the minister at the conference. The remainder were subsequently dealt with by email.  The minister’s [...]

On Friday 24th April we attended a Future Skills Symposium at Govan High School.  The school is one of our most active Project partners through the work of Ian McCracken the Learning Resources Manager there. The Framework (Future Skills) of 71 core transferable skills is the work of Philip Graham, the Depute Head and Ian [...]

 
This year’s LILAC, held at Cardiff, was yet another administrative triumph for the organising committee with all the components of a successful international conference present including two superb evening events. I shall certainly be going back to Caerphilly Castle again. With the 5th year completed a pattern is now established with the continuing predominance of [...]

Bill Johnston is Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement at the University of Strathclyde he has experience in first year experience as well as information literacy and is a member of the project advisory group and spends quite a bit of time in Australia speaking at conferences. In a recent [...]

Discussions and presentations with staff and students at Sheffield University, Department of Information Studies
 
 
 
 

On Wednesday 11th March we were off to Sheffield at the request of Sheila Corrall and Sheila Webber of the Department of Information studies at Sheffield University to do some work with students. On the morning of Thursday 12th March we [...]

 
We have both had our heads down for a while with backroom matters hence the lack of postings but we were out and about last week.
On Tuesday 10th March we attended the National Literacy Conference, held at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow. We had been invited by the Literacy Team of the Curriculum for [...]

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 of [...]

On Wednesday December 10th Christine and I, along with two of our Project partners, Cleo Jones, Principal Officer, Libraries & Resources at Edinburgh City Council and Ian McCracken, Learning Resources Centre Manager at Govan High School attended a meeting at Learning and Teaching Scotland’s (LTS) offices to discuss possible Project input to the development of [...]

New for 2008 at the Scottish Learning Festival was Topic Surgeries which according to the programme would faciltate informal discussions with presenters lasting 12 minutes. Having identified Joyce Henderson, Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) new Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Technologies: The Draft Experiences as the one for me. I joined the surgery to find two [...]