Together @ MCT

Tonight is together @ MCT at Saughtonhall Church. We’re walking a Lent Labyrinth and drinking lots of Hot Chocolate!  With marshmallows of course.

informal education in a digital age?

Leaning and Teaching Scotland have just announced what they think the markers fo excellence in literacy are for the 21st century… and the definition of texts is:novels, short stories, plays, poems, reference texts, the spoken word, charts, maps, graphs and timetables, advertisements, promotional leaflets, comics, newspapers and magazines, CVs, letters and e-mails, films, games and Read More …

Together on Sunday

Together @ MCT happens this Sunday from 5.30pm at Saughtonhall URC, Edinburgh.  It would be great to see you there to walk our lent labyrinth and share some hot chocolate.

digital learning

Over the next while I’m going to be working with ICC and some of my friends at Church of Scotland on a project to make a CertHE level youth work course available as a distance learning course with almost all of the content online using Moodle.  Why?  Maybe this video has some clues…

new beginning

Today was a good day.  I was at Priesthill URC in Glasgow.  Priesthill is one of Glasgow’s most deprived areas and is in the midst of a bout of regeneration.  In the middle of the scheme is the church. As you can see, the church is in very poor condition.  Inside it is damp because Read More …

just realised

I’ve just noticed that I have a picture of Lanark Greyfriar’s church under the headline ‘The Wilderness’!  The two are not related!  Honest!

The wilderness

Yesterday I was at Lanark Greyfriars leading worship. Despite a random powerpoint disaster – disaster is probably a bit strong, the pictures were fine but the music decided not to play – (you know the kind: works before service, doesn’t work in service, works fine after service) it was ok. It was the first Sunday Read More …