ewanmcintosh

Ewan McIntosh, Teacher and Social Media Specialist

I advise on how social media can be harnessed for public service and education management and used to improve learning.

Based in the Edinburgh area I speak internationally, leading student and teacher workshops and conferences, and I advise a number of international organisations and companies on their approaches to social media.

I am available for speaking about Web 2.0 technologies in education across stages and curricular areas. You can hear some previous talks, email me or get in touch with Skype, clicking the button on the menu to the right.

Experience

National Adviser: Learning and Technology Futures,
Learning and Teaching Scotland
2007-present
Helping education leaders understand what potential technology and emerging teaching practices can have over the next five years, and how they might create strategies to harness that potential. This includes working on the development of the national intranet, providing educationally sound connective and creative tools and practices to 800,000 learners and teachers in Scotland.

Leading LTS Connected Live, a participatory social media site run by the national education agency and providing daily updates on who is doing what in Scottish classrooms now.


Live Web Learning Consultant
February 2007-present
Channel 4 New Media Education: Media Advisory Board Member (since January 2007)
BBC and BBC Scotland: Monthly columnist on BBC Scotland Learning (2008); Senior Consultant on BBC Jam (Applied ICT, since November 2006); Consultant on BBC Learning Futures (2006); Consultant on BBC Jam (French and Geography, 2005)
Guardian and Guardian.co.uk: Regular columnist on social media, youth culture and education
Online Information Conference: Member of Expert Advisory Committee
British Council: Consulting Expert on ICT and Languages Education
BarCampScotland: Founder Organiser
Other Clients: NCTE (Irish Government ICT agency), SLO (Dutch Government MFL agency), Various Local Authorities in England and Wales, The Open University, The RSA, Scottish Qualifications Authority, General Teaching Council of Scotland, RM Education, Softease, Scottish Enterprise

New Technologies Research Practitioner,
Learning and Teaching Scotland
2006-present
Integrating blogging, podcasting, wikis, gaming and other emerging technologies into classroom life from nursery to secondary school within East Lothian Council, while providing an ongoing set of frameworks, policies and practical examples other Local Authorities and national bodies can adapt for their own situations.

Lead Manager: LTS Interact project, LTS's first foray into User Generated Content and participatory media for learning and teaching.

Member: East Lothian Council's Teaching and Learning Strategy Group.

Online Service Development Officer,
Scottish CILT / Learning and Teaching Scotland
2005-present
I managed and developed new Professional Development content and resources for the Modern Foreign Languages Environment. Responsibilities included:

• facilitating online community, creating and commissioning MFL and citizenship-related professional development material.
• mentoring in-school projects across the country, both in person and online; preparing action research on technology use in the classroom; writing new material; creating video and audio exemplification.
• organising and presenting at national conferences and international events on ICT and international citizenship, including most of the Initial Teacher Education Institutes in Scotland.

Teacher of French and German,
Musselburgh Grammar School
2002-05
Classroom teacher for students aged 11-18, researching the role of citizenship, ICT and Languages in the curriculum. Other voluntary responsibilities and achievements:

• Brought emerging technology into UK educational arena: ran first open-comment school blogging project in the UK, ran first schools podcast in Europe,
• Pushed international cooperation to the fore: I led the organisation of 20 international school links each year, including student trips to France, Austria, Poland and Czech Republic.
• Coordinated projects which won a European Award for Languages (2005) and which were shortlisted for a New Statesman New Media Award (2005).

Lecturer and course organiser,
Université Paris IX-Dauphine, France
2000-01
Wrote and taught professional communication course for Masters Economics students.

Lecteur, Université de Rouen, France
1999-2000
Taught English language for first to third year students.

Research and Professional Development

John Dickie Action Research, £2500, 2005
Undertook action research into the role of ICT and Collaborative Learning in the education of Gifted and Talented students. Keynote presentations or guest lectures/workshops given at SETT (Glasgow), European Award for Languages Conference (Krakow), Les Blogs 2.0 (Paris), ECML Project D1 (Graz), University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, Royal Society of Edinburgh, eTwinning Conferences (across Europe).

ICT Enhancement Award, £5000, 2004
Won funding to development an online learning environment for students and teachers in my school and beyond. The project, using a website, weblogs and podcasts, won a European Award for Languages 2005 and was shortlisted for the New Media Awards 2005.

League for Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers Study Trip:
Immersion French Education, New Brunswick, Canada, 2003
Radically changing my teaching style after this visit I went on to disseminate at national conferences and the trip also fed into later research in 2005.

Education

University of Strathclyde, PGCE (S) with Distinction, 2001.
University of Edinburgh, MA (Hons) II:i, 1999

Skills

Recognised as a worldwide authority on new media, social media and web technology in the classroom, in large public organisations and corporations, including digital video and animation, podcasting, blogging, gaming, mobile working and playing.

I am fluent in French and German, with good comprehension in other European languages.

Registered as a Fully Qualified Teacher with the GTCS.

I am one of the fastest touch typing livebloggers on the planet, but not as fast as Dan Hon.