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This is a guest post from Sarah Burton of Education Scotland
In this video Laura Compton from the Learning and Teaching Development Team in West Lothian explains how they changed the West Lothian Glow area to make it easier for practitioners to communicate with other practitioners, pupils and parents across West Lothian.
Click here visit West Lothian’s Sharing the Learning Blog.
To find out how the blog was created click here.
This is a guest post by Jean Ward of Kirkwall Grammar School, Orkney
Jean Ward, DHT at Kirkwall Grammar School in Orkney has been making good use of our CPDShorts by creating an innovative programme of lunchtime sessions based around them.
The Glow CPDShorts – thought pieces on current issues in Scottish education – were held on four successive Wednesdays at lunchtime; all staff were invited to bring their lunch. These sessions are quick and informal – in order to make the most of time available the sessions are “flipped” with some suggested advance reading or watching.
Jean has kindly shared her programme with us. CPDShorts are freely available to all members of CPDCentral, so if you are a CPDLeader in your school, why not try them out as part of your collective CPD plan and get some lunchtime learning going on!
Wed 2 November. CPDShort 3 – Advancing Waves – what should education be about?
Presenter, John Connell
Wed 9 November. CPDShort 13 – Coaching and mentoring in the context of PRD
Presenter – Bob Cook’s paper on GLOW and the following YouTube links:
http://bit.ly/cAGz6f http://bit.ly/tTXqR8 http://bit.ly/s0X5cV
(or just ‘search’ coaching and mentoring on YouTube for many more excellent presentations for discussion)
Wed 16 November. CPDShort 8 – Sharing – the moral imperative
Presenter – Dean Shareski
Wed 23 November. CPDShort 4 – Motivating all learners
Presenter – Alan McLean
POSTPONED DUE TO INTERNET GOING DOWN!
Although each meeting attracted only a small audience, it was important to those who came that they could share discussion in an informal setting. It was noticeable that most participants were from smaller departments with limited opportunity for professional dialogue.
Please get in touch if you would like more details.
We’re pleased to say that the programme of CPDMeets will be restarted with an offering from the Stepin community.
On Thursday 1st December at 7pm two of the mentors for this community will lead a session on using Glow in the classroom. You will be in the very safe hands of some expert practitioners here, so please come and join them as they share a bit of their Glow magic! Some of you may have seen Olivia Wexelstein talk eloquently at SLF in September about the amazing work her primary learners have been doing using Glow for projects, blogging and portfolios, and Caroline Breyley from Shetland uses Glow regularly with her school to forge and maintain local and international links.
Sign up as usual to this opportunity on Glow http://bit.ly/cpdmeet41
PS. You can find a number of recorded CPDMeets and other online CPD on Glow here http://bit.ly/onlinecpd. Might be worth a bookmark on your browser
The post in which CPDCentral welcomes its 700th member and launches a free, CPDRequest service!
CPDCentral membership reached the 700 mark yesterday. Our 700th member is Joe Kane (a thoughtful and innovative faculty head from John Ogilvie High School in South Lanarkshire whom I have also had the pleasure to meet). Among many other things, Joe is interested in harnessing the power of a learning round to continue to embed learning through technology in his school.
To celebrate our 700th, we are offering our 1% CPD service, CPDRequest.
The National CPD Team at Education Scotland will arrange CPD for you on any topic, for free, if you can get 1% of the CPDCentral membership to join you in this topic. Here’s how it works:
Oh, and for goodness sake, don’t tell a soul. We’ll be snowed under with requests for all this relevant CPD with real impact on learning! 
Remember, 7 is the magic number!
We need your wisdom! Think of all the ideas, insights and interesting CPD practice that are hidden away in your brain, computer or local web sites. Bring them to the fore for the benefit of all Scottish educators!
Here’s how. Take yourself along the Share-in page on CPDCentral on Glow. Sign-in and get ready to share at 10am on Thursday, 20th October.
CPDStepin is still going strong! This CPD Community on Glow is for supply teachers and others who may not be able to access CPD and PRD through the usual channels. The community is facilitated by CPD Team associates and CPD Team advisers and supported by Susan Lafferty of the National CPD Team at Education Scotland.
In the video below, Anne McGhee, CPD Team associate, chairs a discussion with CPDStepin colleagues and mentors which features the benefits from membership of the community. Enjoy!
Remember,
Sometime ago, we came up with the idea of making the key CPDCentral features available to other ‘affiliated’ CPD communities. You can find out more in What is a CPDCentral affiliated community?
Features such as the About Us profile, I-share, I-intend and the CPDMeets programme can be made available to any CPD leader for use in more specialised communities than CPDCentral.
We already have a number of these communities up and running:
There are several more in the pipeline; for example Perth & Kinross, Positive Relationships, and Probationer Supporters, Aberdeenshire, University of Aberdeen, Journey to Excellence.
Over the coming 2 months, Catriona and I will be ‘on the road’ helping colleagues from all over Scotland. We have an understanding with these colleagues that these workshops will be open to others who are keen to build their own communities.
Some of the dates are below:
If you want to find out more, look me up on CPDCentral, where you can also find out more on the CPDCentral affiliation area (http://bit.ly/cpdcaffil)
Thanks
CPDStepin (the national community for supply teachers on Glow) is hosting a major online event for educators in Scotland in the week beginning 13th June. Each evening at 7pm, we will feature a CPDMeet on the theme of Additional Support for Learning:
All educators with a Glow username and password are very welcome. For more details and sign-up, please see the CPDStepin Summer Summit on Glow
CPDMeets
CPDmeets are lively, quick, convenient and informal CPD opportunities which use Glowmeet to connect educators around a theme of common interest. Coming soon …….
• SQA Academy on Glow (http://bit.ly/cpdf1628) is hosting a series of CPDMeets starting on May 17th at 12 noon. Each CPDMeet in this series will be on a different aspect of e-assessment, and if you are interested in these CPDMeets, please sign up for the first . It is hoped that a wide range of interested parties, including students, will take part in these discussions to help shape the future of e-assessment
• Catriona from the team will also lead CPDMeet 31 on intercultural awareness and MLPS on May 18th at 4pm. Please sign up
• Guitarmeet was so successful we’ve planned a follow-up on Monday May 23rd at 18:30 Sign up here: http://bit.ly/cpdmeet32
• Pam Currie from the Glow team will also be exploring making learning relevant and the cross-curricular potential within the daily online newspaper for students, the Daily What! On Tuesday June 7th at 4pm. SHope you can join us for one or all of these – all the meetings take place in our CPDCentral discussion room. Hope to see you there.
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