Glow Meet for Imagery in Troon Primary

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March 27th, 2009: Glow Meet for Imagery in Troon Primary; Karen-Ann McSwiggan; Comments: Comments OffTags: Glow Meet

I had the pleasure of being part of a P5 lesson recently in Troon Primary School. Fiona Patterson, Principal Teacher in Troon Primary had wanted to explore innovative uses the class could make with Glow Meet and invited me out to be part of this with her. Fiona had set up 4 Glow Meet rooms in the Primary 5 Glow Group and divided the class into 4 groups. The lesson was designed around the following Literacy and English Outcomes:

– applying the elements writers use to create different types of short and extended texts with increasingly complex ideas, structures and vocabulary

I am learning to use language and style in a way which engages and/or influences my reader.
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Ahead of time we had saved 4 whiteboard documents with 2 photos on each. The pupils logged on and started up Glow Meet by entering the appropriate room for their group whilst Fiona revised adjectives, alliteration, similes and metaphors. A team leader from each group then loaded different whiteboard documents. Each whiteboard document dealt with a specific aspect. For example, the alliteration one had 2 photos of snowy landscapes; the metaphor one had 2 photos of sunsets.

Pupils then used the chat facility in pairs to describe the photos using adjectives, alliteration, metaphors and similes. This allowed each group members to view what their peers were adding into the session. Using the chat facility also meant that the pupils could stay on the page viewing the photos at the same time. The pupils spent 10 mins on each whiteboard page and then team leaders loaded up the new page from a pupil shared area on the network.

The pupils were extremely motivated for the task. Fiona and their class teacher, Ruth Campbell, felt that they got far more out of the pupils during this session, than they would have on paper. Comments from the pupils at the end included, “great”, “cool”, “I really liked using the pictures on the computer”. I’m sure you’ll agree that this was super use of the Glow Meet tool.