Health & Wellbeing in Integrated Learning Communities

I’ve just had a fascinating half hour playing on this wonderful site, Tag Galaxy is a way to search for photos across mass storage site Flickr.

On Tag Galaxy, you enter in a ‘tag’ (just a search topic really) and then watch the uber cool way inter connecting tags are presented in a little galaxy, the planet you click on contains all the images and you can explore the planet much like you would do on something like Google Earth. You can then view the image directly but clicking on it.

I just had a go with ‘Cairngorm’ and then ‘Teachmeet’, beautiful and very funny! I guess for me this isn’t about finding the perfect image to re-use on any material, for this is a way of looking at ideas, trains of thought and people’s impressions of subjects.

Of course this being a health and education related blog, I also explored ‘Health’, lo and behold as you might guess, the thousands of images are more to do with fruit, veg, physical exercise and smoking etc. What I’m trying to get across here is that ‘Health’ is so much more.

I look around at a great deal of blogs, wikis and very few bloggers have a ‘Health’ tag, but so much of what they are blogging about, their thoughts, tips, wrinkles, joys and discoveries can be tagged under ‘Health’. I’m trying to make parallels here to the transition we are going through in Scottish education from Health Education in a school 5 -14 curriculum to ‘Health and Wellbeing’ as a whole school approach, particularly evident in the new Health and Wellbeing Outcomes and Experiences.

Just an idea, maybe if we started tagging more of our ideas under ‘Health’ maybe it would encourage some of staff who see Health just as nutrition and physical activity to understand how their work contributes…

Oh, thanks to Gordon McKinlay for highlighting this site to his colleagues! I see he’s just blogged about it too!

What a rubbish title to this post! I just thought I’d share with you all a little competition that’s going on in Highland. The Highland Council’s existing ‘Energy Champion’ role is being re-branded and will carry with it a new staff awareness raising and training programme.  The new campaign will be entitled ‘Green Ambassadors’ and will focus on energy, waste and travel.

In advance of an official launch event all staff are being invited to submit their ideas for an environmental, catchy slogan to go along with the Green Ambassador scheme. (5 words maximum)

Sorry this is for The Highland Council  staff only, but you can always supply me with your thoughts and words, if you’re elsewhere and I win – I’ll share the prize with you, promise! ;-)

Would be great to involve all the schools, I bet the pupils can come up with something far more catchy than us!