Just digesting all the material from the Scottish Learning Festival.
A range of posts will appear over the next week or so (although I have another big project to finish first) on LIVING GEOGRAPHY.One good moment was seeing Val Vannet's presentation on the SMARTBOARD stand. She had made imaginative use of the various features of the Smart Notebook 10 software (which is very useful: I have it on my laptop even though I no longer have my Smartboard.
Interesting tip that I hadn't been aware of was the automatic conversion of Quicktime to FLV, which can then be viewed in the Smartboard document.

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