{"id":1441,"date":"2015-08-13T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2015-08-13T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T10:39:20","slug":"west-college-scotland-it-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/west-college-scotland-it-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"West College Scotland IT Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me and Helen attended this event yesterday, held in the Erskine Bridge Hotel, organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcollegescotland.ac.uk\/\">West College Scotland<\/a>. We enjoyed it a great deal. The aim of the event was to show how digital technologies can be used within teaching and learning. SQA was one of the sponsors.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/WCS-WITS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1442\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/WCS-WITS-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"WCS WITS\" width=\"424\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/WCS-WITS-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/WCS-WITS-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/WCS-WITS-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/WCS-WITS.jpg 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Almost the entire staff attended. There were keynotes and workshops throughout the day on topics such as Open Badges, Moodle and social media. It was interesting to hear\u00a0how some teachers are using VLEs for teaching and learning and some are using off-the-peg social media. I overheard many people talk about the potential\u00a0of smartphones as learning and assessment tools, and how these could be used much more effectively in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>SQA used the event to showcase <a href=\"http:\/\/ushare.education\/Ushare\/Home\">uShare<\/a>, our new service for helping teachers to share resources. We had a stand at the event and gave a couple of workshops on uShare. We&#8217;re currently creating two resource lists on uShare for <em>Digital Passport<\/em> and <em>Cyber Security<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>West College should be commended for organising such as worthwhile and interesting event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me and Helen attended this event yesterday, held in the Erskine Bridge Hotel, organised by West College Scotland. We enjoyed it a great deal. The aim of the event was to show how digital technologies can be used within teaching and learning. SQA was one of the sponsors. Almost the entire staff attended. There were keynotes and workshops throughout the day on topics such as Open Badges, Moodle and social media. It was interesting to hear\u00a0how some teachers are using&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,37],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}