Blog feedEducation award nominee delivers fantastic Glowing Thursday session
April 27th, 2009
Class teacher Avril Taylor is from Pinwherry Primary School, a 14 pupil primary school in South Ayrshire that is discovering the benefits of Glow Meet. Avril has been so successful in her incorporation of Glow into The P5/6/7 composite class that she has been nominated for a Scottish Education Award.
On Thursday 23 April Avril was the latest ‘expert’ to deliver a Glowing Thursday session where she explained to teachers from across the country how she is using Glow to change the way lessons are delivered and also to help link up this tiny rural school with others around the country.
Glowing Thursday’s are open sessions where any Glow user can log-in listen to and ask questions of an ‘expert’ of the week. As well as explaining her own practise, Avril was able to answer a query about improving writing and also offered ideas for activities to do on Glow with a teacher also from a small rural school. When asked if she had had any issues with Glow her reply was, ‘only that it is addictive’ – in fact her only complaint was that, ‘It didn’t come with a Health warning!’
Avril has also been generous enough to share some of the work the children have been doing on the national Glowing Potential group. Click HERE to access this work.
The next Glowing Thursday event will feature Neil Winton talking about Perth Academy’s use of WIKIs in the classroom. The school have seen their achievements in writing go ‘through the roof’ since the introduction of WIKIs and if you would like to find out how this was done you can access the session HERE on Thursday 20 April at 5pm.
Portmoak Primary Perth and Kinross
Great to read about your links with small rural schools. As a small rural school we are awaiting our glow passwords and I am excited to think I can contact you about ideas for improving writing.
I may become addicted! Congratulations on your nomination.
Helen Simpson