The latest edition of the JISC RSC Scotland e-quality bulletin is now available to download.

The newsletter features a wide variety of articles on subjects from communicating with symbols to creating accessible PowerPoint slides.

Find out more, access archived publications and/or download the latest edition at http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/publications.php#e_quality_newsletter_winter_2009. 

On Guard Online offers a fifty-four page PDF guide to talking with kids about being online.

Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online offers numerous suggestions for having conversations with learners about online behaviors.

The guide offers differentiated suggestions based upon the age of the children with which you're talking. Net Cetera covers topics including...

• social networking,
• cyberbullying,
• sexting,
• mobile devices,
• peer-to-peer file sharing, and
• online privacy.

The NIACE website has free resources to help providers and practitioners in supporting learners with a range of learning difficulties and disabilities;

The resources consist of...

• a series of case studies - highlighting practical examples of providers with a wealth of experience in supporting learners with learning difficulties and disabilities in work-based learning
• seven briefing sheets - each highlighting a particular learning difficulty or disability, explaining how it may affect learne...

This publication is designed to alert employers to impending changes within the education system that aim to see more people with learning difficulties and disabilities employed.

This publication aims to publicise the aims of the LSC strategy and encourage employers across all sectors to play a part in ensuring that disabled people have a positive start to their working lives.

It suggests ways employers can do this by:

• offering work experience opportunities and nominating mentors to s...

'The Impact of Mobile Technologies: Examining what it means for teaching and learning'.

A report that summarises Phase one of MoLeNET projects.

Molenet 1 involved approximately...

• 2,000 staff and
• 10,000 learners,

...spread across 32 mobile learning projects; this produced many examples of good practice and "lessons learned", all of which are included in the report.

“Handheld technologies used included...

• personal digital assistants (PDAs),
• mobile phones,
• smartphones,
• M...

A strategy for young people’s information, advice and guidance.
A 52 page publication that all involved in the education of children should be aware of.

The document outlines even more initiatives to be included in the curriculum. It identifies issues that most are taking on board or have had as part of their Careers responsibilities for some time. It talks about the need to help young adults to be aware of the opportunities available to them and repeatedly encourages practitioners, par...

Haven’t got a Google Wave invite yet? Don’t worry. Sooner or later you will get it.

Meanwhile get yourself acquainted with Wave by reading “The Complete Guide to Google Wave” written by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

Currently the guide is available online for free at http://completewaveguide.com/guide/The_Complete_Guide_to_Google_Wave. It features eight chapters and two appendices, but it is going to expand as Google Wave develops. In January 2010 a PDF and print version of the b...