After a good long summer break from blogging, I’m back with a bounce with a brand new site for you to explore!

Click the link to find out more about Crofting Connections, I’m a member of the steering group and was only too happy to help out with setting up the blog and email addresses.

Crofting Connections is a fantastic way to provide a rich learning task for providing opportunities for learning outcomes that cut across the whole curriculum. The site tells you more.

The techy bit..the site is a wordpress.com blog that has multi-user functionality, so that means that all involved in the project can update the site, schools can post news and keep the site current. The site however is self-hosted, which means we have our very own domain site, www.croftingconnections.com which serves as a platform for the wordpress site.

It was relatively easy to set up by using a company called www.uk2.net and with the ‘home’ package I got 50 free email addresses linked to the domain name and IT backup help for a year.

This worked out at about £65 a year. Not cheap really, but when you think how much people pay for IT company to set something like that up, it’s cheap as chips (or should that be carrots)

Please enjoy the project and see how it develops…

For anyone who wants to find out a bit more about the functionality of GLOW and participate in some friendly discussions about Curriculum for Excellence I can wholeheartedly recomment GLOWing Thursdays!

I was asked by a good colleague Robert Hill to join in and present at today’s GlOWing Thursday about Health and Wellbeing. After a few technical hitches I was pleased to join in from my temporary location of Fort William, in sun-drenched hotel overlooking Ben Nevis.

It worked brilliantly, bar a few croaky voices due to internet connections. If you are interested to see the playback, I think that the LTS channel on You Tube will show them soon. For now, you can access my slides here.

I really focussed on the background to Health and Wellbeing from 2003 and how far we have come, a bit about guidance that Highland produces to support schools in implementing the Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) (Scotland) Act then a good look at how we can develop the Health and Wellbeing Experiences and Outcomes, particularly cross-curricular approaches and inter-disciplinary projects.

There were about 6 people at one time, not a lot but I was delighted to be asked and proud to be using the GLOW service. Thanks to Jennifer McDougall and Katie Barrowman.