On 28/29 October, Martin Brown and I were working with a new wave of Glow Mentors in Aberdeen this week. Martin did the bulk of the sessions, mentoring me in my new role as Glow D.O., as well as mentoring the mentors! The new mentors are a great bunch and will make a real impact […]

Hot on the heels of the Orkney Learning Festival came the Shetland Islands Council two-day In Service event at Anderson High School in Lerwick. The event was well attended on both days, even with lying snow, high winds and ferry cancellations taking their toll. The Glow team ran two training events, one an introduction to […]

The Glow team are keen to find out more about how you are using Glow.  Why not let us know the different ways you are using it to make a positive impact on the way you work? You could also send us some information providing some examples or suggestions on how you might use it […]

At the end of September, the Glow communications bank was launched on the GlowScotland website to provide you with the tools to share with others how Glow is being used in your classroom, school, or local authority. You can access a range of resources from poster and presentation templates, to images and logos, and all […]

September started well for Glow with a win! RM has been involved in the IMS Global Learning Consortium for some time and decided to make a submission on behalf of Glow for the Learning Impact Awards for 2009, designed to recognize the most impactful use of technology worldwide in support of learning.RM made a joint […]

This year’s Scottish Learning Festival launched the interactive ‘Glow Games’. Players can choose from a selection of fun educational based games to memorise, react, observe, decide and analyse.  The games are available to play now and you can find them on GlowScotland’s homepage (link - www.glowscotland.org.uk) and also on Glow (Link - https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/Glow%20Games/default.aspx) (by playing through Glow you’ll earn more […]

This year’s Scottish Learning Festival saw a different and novel approach to learning more about Glow in relaxed and informal surroundings – the Glowing Lounge.  The lounge provided an opportunity for practitioners to come along and share their thoughts and ideas about how they have used Glow over a cup of tea or coffee. In […]

With more seminars, more exhibitors, more features and more delegates than ever before, the 2008 festival was our most successful yet. The Scottish Learning Festival is now firmly established as the pivotal event on the Scottish education calendar and was attended over the two days by nearly 6000 educationalists from Scotland, the rest of the UK and […]

Last week I found myself back in the beautiful (and very stormy!) Western Isles on a support visit for Glow. Over the course of the two days I spoke to many teachers and was able to see first-hand the difference that Glow is making in this remote community.
The best part of the visit for me […]

Thursday and Friday of this week brought the annual Orkney Learning Festival. This astounding feat of organisation saw every teacher in the islands attend for at least one, and in many case two, full day’s access to a wealth of CPD, including some absolutely top class seminars.
Held in Kirkwall Grammar school, the packed programme gave […]