CPDAnswers

Many thanks for getting in touch with us about keeping your Glow account going. Here are a few points to note:

• Do not be surprised if you do not hear personally from us for a while. It’s going take us from June to August to process all the requests. That’s why we asked local authorities not  to ‘turn-off’ your Glow accounts in the meantime.
• At some point, your Glow persona will be ‘adopted’ by the CPDStepin community. We will be in touch when that happens with any action you may have to take.
• Join CPDCentral now. Get a photograph of yourself onto your computer and follow this link ; http://bit.ly/cpdhello. If you need help look at this CPDAnswers post http://bit.ly/glowhelp2
• Feel free to explore the services of CPDCentral

You can find out more about the CPD communities on Glow by following these links:

• What is CPDCentral?
• CPDStepin

The best type of CPD is collegiate and it’s no different on Glow. The CPD Team have developed an About Us system that lets colleagues introduce themselves once and then ‘appear’ in any CPD opportunity they take part in.

Here’s how it works:

1. You enrol in the CPDMeet or other opportunity

2. Our admin folk get an alert and we will add the CPD opportunity to your About Us entry

3. When you click on ‘See participants’ you will see pictures of all who have / are taking part

More:   Why should I introduce myself to a CPD community?    How do introduce myself to a CPD community?    See who has already joined About Us

Isn’t it great when you go to a CPD event in person and you see people and are introduced to them. To help us get that feeling, enrolling in one of our online CPD opportunities is in two parts.

Part 1 – All members of CPD communities on Glow must introduce themselves with a photograph and details using the About Us web part. If you haven’t already done so,  then please fill in this form as soon as possible. You only need to do this once!

Part 2 – for each of the CPD opportunities:

1. select the enrol button (eg for a CPDMeet).
2. the organiser will ‘add’ you to the opportunity just as if you are attending a face-to-face event.
3. When this is done, your details will appear on the About Us section for that opportunity
4. Note this may take a wee bit of time, so in the meantime, you can continue with the CPD opportunity or edit it yourself on your CPDMe page on CPDCentral! Look for the my participation section

More:   Why should I introduce myself to a CPD community?    How do introduce myself to a CPD community?

I-share is a standardised way of sharing in the Glow communities facilitated by the National CPD Team.

There are four Is you can share with colleagues in your CPD community: Issue, Idea, Insight and Interesting practice.

Wherever you see this symbol, you can upload your own I-share item and nearby will be a link to whatever has already been shared by colleagues in this community or CPD opportunity.

Using the I-share form is pretty straightforward but please contact Susan (s.lafferty@ltscotland.org.uk) if you need more help.

If this is your first time using Glowmeet, the National CPD Team can arrange a support session.  This will take place a week before your CPDMeet and last approximately 45 minutes. This is likely to be a telephone/online session.

Before the support session please have a look at the following links to give you an idea of what Glowmeet looks like and what it can do.

• Using Glowmeet
• How to use Glowmeet

Please contact Susan Lafferty at S.Lafferty@LTScotland.org.uk or 0141 282 5207. Susan will also prompt you for some or all of the following information for the CPDMeet page:

• a picture of you
• some bio information
• title of the CPDMeet
• outcomes of the CPDMeet
• are you happy to take questions in advance of the CPDMeet?
• are you happy to answer questions for a limited period after the CPDMeet?

This will be used to build the CPDMeet page on Glow

On the day of the CPDMeet

1. Please log-in 30 minutes before the start
2. Please load pages / slides in advance
3. Please have fun!

CPDMeet is the name the CPD Team uses for live CPD sessions on Glow. Generally they use Glow’s web conferencing technology, Glowmeet.

Each CPDMeet has its own CPDMeet page on Glow where would-be participants can see details, sign-up and interact before, during and after the CPDMeet.

Typically, each CPDMeet will be promoted in a variety of ways including CPDFind. CPDFind is the national database of CPD run by LTScotland and the National CPD Team.

Subject to permissions from the CPDMeet participants, the events are recorded and made available as an archive for follow-up work.

You can see forthcoming CPDMeets in the Online CPD library on CPDCentral

Help! I’m a CPDMeet feartie!

You will find details of all the CPDChallenges on CPDFind. Just type cpdchallenge into the CPDFind search box. They are also listed in the CPDChallenges section of CPDCentral community area.

Visit the CPDChallenge area on CPDCentral …

If you see this symbol on an agenda or an invite, it means the CPD event you are attending will be using Glow, so bring a laptop if you can! It may mean:

• preparation for the event is happening on Glow
• discussions are being recorded on a Glow group
• other colleagues are accessing the event remotely using Glowmeet
• there is a ‘back-channel’ discussion to the event using the Glowchat tool
• resources will be accessed or added to Glowgroups during the event

Sometimes +Glow will be optional and sometimes not, so check with the organiser to be on the safe side!

If you can improve on this advice, please leave a comment, thanks!