...........Experimental Blog: Reflections on a Busy Year

There is never enough time or money to support ground up initiatives. There is a lot of ground level work out there that could and can transform the lot of learners. I think there are more of these than ever this year – and well done all ...

If you get a moment you should check out some of these links to teachers taking control of their own CPD. I am always amazed that some more of the teacher training institutions are nor more visible in the CPD space in this way.

http://purposed.org.uk useful discussion on purpose of education across UK

http://edutalk.cc/ nice set of educational podcasts

Pedagoo http://www.pedagoo.org/ teachers for teachers on a host of topics from Scottish Teachers

Scotedublogs http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/ Still for me best aggregation of Scottish Educational Blogs

Teachmeets just grows and grows and driven by teachers http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/w/page/19975349/FrontPage

Most of the really good Scottish educational bloggers are now on twitter and you probably get richest diet from them here. But a few old timers worth following who will quickly lead you into the community of Scottish Educational Bloggers and Twitterers

https://twitter.com/@nwinton

https://twitter.com/@olliebray

https://twitter.com/@literacyadviser

https://twitter.com/@islayian

https://twitter.com/@camaxwell

https://twitter.com/@cpdScotsman

https://twitter.com/@johnjohnston

Sorry I can’t list everyone but check out Scottish Education Twits for feeds from main Scottish Educational Twitterers.

Worth following too those who stride around the world stirring things up

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/

http://www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/

But best of all I found some new folks with new ideas emerging