It’s not as odd as it sounds, but innovations in spaghetti sauce (and Pepsi, and mustard) might hold clues as to how Glow, the Curriculum for Excellence and other ‘national’ initiatives can prove successful on the most niche of local levels.
At Learning and Teaching Scotland I’ve been leading some monthly Inspiration Sessions, today being the […]

When it comes to explaining GLOW to other teachers, we are in danger of missing something really important… We’d better get on board with it really soon or the parents are going to want to know why.
I’ve been involved in a couple of really interesting conversations recently that have made me realise that the ‘tipping […]

Adam kicks off a roundup of a superb event in Aberdeenshire to get its teachers (and students) motivated through new technologies, including some interesting world-breaking uses of Glow. Tim Rylands, one of the keynote presenters, gives his own take and some of the background of his long-term involvement with the Authority. Martin provides more coverage […]

Connected Live brings you extra content on top of what you can read in your paper edition of Connected magazine. Here, read exclusively all the questions and answers on Scotland’s national intranet Glow with LTS’s Director of Learning and Technology Laurie O’Donnell that didn’t make it to the magazine:
“Glow’s most important advocates are our teachers […]

Find out how East Lothian is getting on with its implementation of Glow. This week: Mentor Training.

Andrew Brown has had more time to play with the Asus EeePC, on which we gave a video tour last month. He’s started to find a few challenges for using this in a classroom setting.

Two days in to the new year, and already my mind is reeling at the eduthinking going on. In particular, some diagrams from two different sources may help clarify some of the issues that I believe education faces this year.
The first post of the 2008 from David Warlick has him thinking about the differences between […]

Tess Watson over in East Lothian spent yesterday playing with her new PSPs, but also managed to experiment with colleague Ollie Bray with using Glow on the portable gaming console. Another great excuse reason to get PSPing in your classrooms! Ollie explains a bit more about what the PSP project involves.

As I’ve mentioned before I post a set of interesting links onto LTS’s Masterclass community every week or so. Masterclass is still looking for new members. I thought that the links I just posted there give a fair flavour of what is going on in some of the educational blogosphere and that I might share […]

Gordon McKinlay has been thinking about how we are going to work with the ‘Glow Groups’, small online communities in the national intranet. Jimmy Wales, at this week’s Online Information Conference, also gets us thinking about building communities from his experience as Founder of Wikipedia, and maybe offers some ideas as to how these Glow […]