- September 1st, 2010
Glowing cookbook – Supporting an interdisciplinary project using Glow & Glow Learn
- Gail Cairns
- Comments: 3 Comments »
The English department at Carluke High School in South Lanarkshire has used Glow extensively over the last couple of
years, with topics ranging from novel studies in S2 through to creative writing assignments at Higher.
Last autumn the English department worked in collaboration with other departments on a ‘Scottish Heritage’ project. In this cookbook English teacher Barry Wright describes how Glow was used to support this interdisciplinary project.
The Scottish Heritage Project encompassed all S1 pupils and staff from the English, History and Computing departments. The project’s aims were:
• Developing pupils’ understanding and appreciation of their local heritage
• Encouraging pupils to make connections between different areas of learning
• Building pupils’ skills in working independently
• Developing pupils’ skills in working in partnership and in teams
The project explored a number of different themes of Scottish heritage, including music and arts, local industry and famous buildings.
Visit this cookbook to find out how Barry created a ’Scottish Heritage’ Glow Group and then sub-Groups for each of the different themes. All S1 pupils and the staff involved in the project were given membership of each of the Groups. Each Group contained links to web sites for background reading and for research tasks, discussion boards for pupils’ questions and feedback, and assignments created in Glow Learn.
Categories Glow Groups, Glow Learn, Literacy, South Lanarkshire
Sounds like some trailblazing work going on in Carluke. I love Glow but have never used it as well as described by this, may I say, quite eloquent and intelligent sounding young teacher.
His tutorial is on constant repeat and I sometimes even listen to it at night.
More Barry Wright Please!
I was blind but now I can see. This cookbook has revolutinised my teaching style in one fell swoop.
It’s now, It’s interactive, It’s new, but more importantly it’s now.