Glow Scotland

What exactly is a Glow Cookbook I hear you ask? Put simply it is description of how Glow is being used by classroom practitioners and how it has enhanced learning and teaching with their pupils.

Like a traditional cookbook it contains the ingredients, which Glow components have been used, some advice on method, a quick ‘how to’ video, and the end product, a description of the impact from the teacher or pupils.

So if you’d like to know how to use Glow for innovative and successful transitions or use Glow Meet to support conversational French or how to create a Worry Forum or how to embed video as a stimulus for writing or how to use  Glow for Personal Learning Planning or enhancing staff communication or…OK  so you get the point. Go on take a peek and leave us some feedback.

We hope to add many more of these short cookbooks to help generate useful ideas and showcase how Glow is being used around the country.

Glow Cookbooks can be accessed via the Glow national site Help link or linking directly to http://cookbooks.glowscotland.org.uk/ or using a Google search for Glow Cookbooks.

Tell your story and win a Flip video camera

We’d love to hear and share your story. How are you using Glow and what has been the impact on you or your pupils? Please send us your Glow Cookbook for sharing on our cookbook site. From the first fifty we will select three winners to receive a natty Flip video camera. All content should be emailed to glowadmin@ltscotland.org.uk and titled Cookbook competition.

What are we looking for?

Take a look at some of the current cookbooks they follow a similar format. This is a useful template for creating your cookbook. There are some points that you need to bear in mind:

• Your cookbook should include a brief context
• It should include pictures and screen shots – but we don’t expect you to submit any video
• Any graphics etc should be copyright friendly and all photos must have the appropriate permissions granted for sharing over the internet
• The main element of the cookbook will be a description of the impact using Glow has had on facilitating learning
• You do not need to include any instructions on how to add, amend or use specific web parts
• An email address would be most useful to encourage further collaboration
• All submitted cookbooks (subject to a QA process) will be shared on the Glow Cookbook siteSo get writing! We know that there are lots of you using Glow for a whole variety of contexts and curricular areas and we’d love to share these stories!

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