TES Visit

At last a spare five minutes!

Friday 12th May – Visit from the TES

All is quite quiet at school at the moment with the S4 – S6 away sitting final examinations. Today was a bit livelier as we had a visit from Douglas Blaine from the Times Educational Supplement (TES). I have been telephone interviewed by Douglas before on an article for SETT 2005 on interactive voting. But we had never met in person and it was nice to put a name to a face.

Douglas observed part of my lesson on conflict in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and part of Colin / Suzanne’s lesson on an introduction to GPS in Geography. He seemed to be very impressed with what he saw and we had a great discussion after the observation on the new technologies in teaching Geography. We talked about data projectors, interactive whiteboards, GPS, digital mapping and Web 2.0 technologies.

The article will appear in the TES Teacher Supplement sometime in the next few weeks. Douglas is also keen to come back and write a follow up article on the department, maybe focusing on the GEOCASTS project when it is complete in about 8 months time.

I spent the rest of the day preparing for the Scottish Survey of Achievement SSA – more of this in a separate post and then left soon after the bell to make the journey north to Glenmore Lodge to meet my group at 8pm.