This year, Mrs Smyth has established a blog at Posterous to allow us to record our activities in London as they happen, direct from our mobile phones.  We'll also be able to use the computers in the youth hostel to make updates. 

The blog is at - http://gangstapanda.posterous.com

Michael now has his S6 portfolio site up and running.

There's a link from his portfolio page to a gallery of work.  We hope that he'll post more on a regular basis.

Michael's site is at - http://mspeirs.folio1.org.

CDTlog is our new departmental blog, which '...hopes to capture the huge variety of learning that takes place on a daily basis.'

CDTlog has been established by our new teacher, Krysia Smyth, who joined us at the start of the session. Until very recently, Mrs Smyth has been employed at the Scottish Qualifications Authority, having completed her probation year in the west of Scotland, in June 2008. We expect to post more info about Mrs Smyth on the 'Staff' page of our main site soon.

Mrs Smyth is keenly interested in the integration of on-line tools to aid teaching and learning, and has made a flying start here at Royal High.

A couple of weeks ago Sarah took part in Sicamp (Social Innnovation Camp) Scotland, in Glasgow.

Sarah's proposal was the winning submission.  In her own words -

Recently after a friend's flat was broken into I’ve had the experience of loosing confidence in the police and not being kept informed about what is happening on the case. Let’s have police feedback and case updates on the web. Let’s get police telling and showing us what they’re doing. Let’s use new technologies to report crimes. Let us know what’s happening in our community and where our police officers are. 

Sarah and her team have now launched a blog to support the project, and are developing the interface for the project's main site.  They have also begun to make contact with police organisations and other interested groups, to carry out interviews.

Project sites -

http://mypolice.wordpress.com - The project blog.

http://mypolice.org - The project main site.

http://scotland.sicamp.org/?page_id=151 - Sarah's proposal at Sicamp.