Glow Scotland

November 13th, 2011

Glowing Thursdays – National School Sports Week

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow, Glow Meet, Health and Wellbeing, North Lanarkshire, Pupils

This week Scottish athlete Lee McConnell, 400 metres runner will be on Glowing Thursday to tell us about what it takes to be an Olympian and to encourage schools to get involved in National School Sports Week 2012.

Nearly half a million primary and secondary pupils from over 1,400 schools in Scotland participated in National School Sport Week last June, making it the biggest school sporting event in the country. So, the numbers for 2012 are set to rise!

The week will be from 11th – 15th June 2012 and the theme for this year is Stage your Games! The possibilities for capturing the Olympic and Paralympic spirit in your National School Sports Week events and for supporting interdisciplinary learning in Curriculum for Excellence are endless.

Join us live from Muirhouse Primary School in North Lanarkshire on Thursday 17th November at 11am and find out more about how you and your school can get involved! Sign up in Glow TV.

October 28th, 2011

World of Work Wednesdays is Back!!

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Career Opportunities and Pathways, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow, Glow Meet, Pupils

Yes it is back! The popular fortnightly event that focuses on career opportunities for young people across Scotland returns to Glow TV after a break.

This WoWW event focuses on Working in the Theatre. Have you ever wondered what it is like being part of the magic of the theatre? How does a production begin and who is involved in bringing it to life on the stage?

Why not join assistant directors and associate artists in the Glow TV Studio and find out more?

Sign up and join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 2nd November at the usual time 2pm.

October 20th, 2011

Sharing Instrumental Performance Videos at St Aidan’s High School

ggallacher

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Alan Jenkins is a music teacher at St Aidan’s High School in North Lanarkshire. After receiving a small amount of training in school Alan could see that he wanted to make use of it. He wanted to use Glow to share instrumental performance videos with his pupils. Alan felt that pupils will have pieces of music demonstrated to them in school but then this moment is gone and it is difficult for the pupils to remember what to do. He feels this is an issue that Glow provides a solution for.

Read more in the Cookbook here

October 19th, 2011

Daily Quote – Samba anyone? Using Glow to Support Games Based Learning

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“The best bit about today was meeting the people face to face after talking to them on Glow. The best project ever..Amazing, Radical, Awesome”

Pupils from Meldrum Primary in Oldmeldrumboth & Slains Primary in Ellon both Aberdeenshire

Find out more in the Cookbook here

October 12th, 2011

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off!!

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Co-Create, Creativity Portal, Curriculum for Excellence, Dundee City, Events, Expressive Arts

Live from Dundee Rep Theatre, join us on Tuesday 25th October from 4.15pm for an exclusive Glow Meet with the acclaimed playwright Liz Lochhead.

This is a rare opportunity to hear the current national poet talk about her writing and in particular the modern Scottish classic, ‘Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off.’ Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is a co-production between the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Dundee Rep Theatre. You can view further information and videos of the production on the Lyceum website.

Join the Glow Meet for language and drama activities, design resources and activities, as well as video interviews with the director, actors and designer.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV for this exciting opportunity.

October 12th, 2011

Daily Quote – Northern Lights: an international project

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“Young people have had the opportunity to speak to other young people in different countries, across different authorities. They have been able to share their interests, hobbies etc”

Ron Cowie – Stirling Council

To find out more, read the Cookbook here

October 10th, 2011

Daily Quote – FIFA 2010 World Cup in Inverclyde

ggallacher

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“I wanted to increase the use of Glow in a fun way, so I hope I’ve achieved that by giving them lots of different activities.”

Diana Rolland is ICT Support Teacher and Glow Development Officer for Inverclyde Council

Read more in the Cookbook here

September 26th, 2011

Daily Quote – Burns Supper at Coylton – Using Glow to support an Enterprise Project

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“The Burns project worked really well. The pupils were extremely enthusiastic. They had only just got their Glow log-ons and they were really keen to use Glow as much as possible. They were logging in at home quite a lot and also in school they were given a chance to log in whenever they had any free time”

Judith Lennox was P7 teacher at Coylton Primary School in South Ayrshire and is now DHT in the school

To find out more Read the Cookbook here

September 23rd, 2011

Daily Quote – Glow Meet with a dragon!- Early Years Fairyland topic

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“All staff, pupils and parents absolutely LOVED this Enchanted Forest topic! The dragon really came to life through GLOW for the children, which was a super way to end such a fabulous project!”

Teachers from Primary 1 and 2 at Windyknowe Primary School, Bathgate, West Lothian

Find out more by visiting the Glow Cookbook here

September 21st, 2011

SLF Extra – Using iPads in Music education

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Expressive Arts, North Lanarkshire, Technologies

John McLaughlin from Taylor High School, North Lanarkshire opened the Scottish Learning Festival this morning with an inspirational seminar on the use of iPads in the secondary music classroom.

With the emphasis on pupil engagement and creativity, John had his “virtual S1 pupils” (4 delegates) playing Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water within 5 minutes of picking up their iPads, much to the annoyance of the seminar next door!

It was a stunning demonstration of the enormous potential of the iPad in the music classroom, encouraging pupils’ creativity and making music appreciation, composition and performance more accessible to all.

The impact of the loaned iPads from Education Scotland has been marked in John’s class, with pupils who “haven’t got a scooby” making music, composing ringtones and participating in interdisciplinary learning by selling their ringtones in an Enterprise activity.

Using Apps such as GarageBand and AmpliTube, pupils from S1 to S6 can multitask on the iPad, recording their own podcast, researching its content on the web, and then use the text application to write their script.

For music composition, pupils can plug real instruments in to the iPad. Then, as John says, “the best thing is pupils can share their compositions and ideas with their friends using Bluetooth and iTunes.”

For early years and pupils with Additional Support Needs two applications were highlighted – Beatwave and Soundrop.  John gave the seminar a demonstration of the amazing potential of these Apps for young learners and those with physical or learning difficulties.

This was a ringing endorsement of using the iPad in the music classroom from a real, hands-on music practitioner and the audience were reluctant to leave, Mr McLaughlin definitely left the crowd wanting more.

Watch the video below for more information on the seminar:

SLF11-ipads to teach Music from GlowTV on Vimeo.