Glow Scotland

January 20th, 2012

Using a wiki as an evidence store for pupil e-portfolios

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Maureen Atkins is a Maths teacher at St Aidan’s High School in North Lanarkshire. She has been making good use of Glow in her teaching. She was involved in the school making the decision to move ahead with using e-portfolios with the S1 year group. Maureen was keen that evidence of pupil achievement that she had captured in the classroom would be available to be used by the pupils when creating posts in their e-portfolios. This Cookbook will focus on the Maths Store Glow Group and on the wiki. You will see a tour of the Glow Group and wiki and also interviews with Maureen where she will explain what she was setting out to do.

Find out more in the Cookbook here

January 19th, 2012

e-portfolios using Glow blogs at Barr Primary, South Ayrshire

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From the recommendations contained within Building the Curriculum 5 Jennifer Richardson then South Ayrshire’s Curriculum for Excellence Assessment Team Development Officer, had decided to initiate a pilot project to use Glow to help schools meet the requirements. The documentation states that,

“children and young people should agree learning goals and should record them in ways that are meaningful and relevant.”
It also calls for the creation of a Learner Profile which should include targets and goals with information on all areas of the curriculum and wider achievement and a range of evidence of learning. It states that learners should have opportunities for reflection, sharing and dialogue. Maintaining an electronic portfolio within Glow could provide schools and pupils with the ongoing information required for a Profile.

In this cookbook we will focus on work done in Barr Primary School in South Ayrshire as part of this pilot process.

Find out more in the cookbook here.

November 21st, 2011

e-portfolios in East Renfrewshire – Part 2

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In June 2011, two of East Renfrewshire’s clusters worked with their pupils to create e-portfolios using Glow Blogs. This involved Eastwood High School, St Ninian’s High School and their associated primary schools. At the start of the 2011-12 academic session, the other five Secondary clusters did the same. Part 1 of this cookbook covers the background to this and the set up process for the e-portfolios.

Read more in the Cookbook here

November 1st, 2011

e-portfolios using Glow blogs at Barr Primary, South Ayrshire

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From the recommendations contained within Building the Curriculum 5 Jennifer Richardson then South Ayrshire’s Curriculum for Excellence Assessment Team Development Officer, had decided to initiate a pilot project to use Glow to help schools meet the requirements. The documentation states that,

“children and young people should agree learning goals and should record them in ways that are meaningful and relevant.”

To find out more read the cookbook here

September 27th, 2011

“Glow is an ideal place to share pupils’ work”

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Glenwood High School in Fife, with a roll of 860 pupils and with 90 teaching staff, has seen a significant increase in the use of Glow over the last six months. By the end of the year, around 75% of staff and pupils had active accounts and in an average week over 200 pupils were using Glow during school hours.

This cookbook describes how a number of staff from different departments, have been using Glow to enhance learning and teaching.

In this cookbook we focus on the work of the Computing department. In the Recipe section, video clips show how you can replicate the use of avatars, vokis and forums.

Read more here

September 21st, 2011

Lynburn Primary: enthusing learners and promoting responsibility

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This cookbook illustrates a number of ways in which Jacqui Clark a primary 5 teacher at Lynburn Primary School in Fife has embedded Glow in daily learning and teaching. She has been using Glow for about eighteen months initially just with her own class and now supporting colleagues throughout the school. Jacqui is very positive about the learning opportunities Glow has opened up – allowing pupils to discuss and collaborate, to share their work with their peers and their families, to record and assess their own progress.

Jacqui’s first use of Glow was a project on the Declaration of Arbroath. Her class contacted a history teacher at Arbroath High School who was able to support their project remotely through a Glow Group and a Glow Meet session. This provided an excellent testing ground for Jacqui to explore the potential of Glow to expand learning beyond the classroom. Through Glow Meet pupils engaged in a question and answer session with the history teacher, their learning enhanced by his expertise and local knowledge.

See more in the Glow Cookbook here

September 16th, 2011

Fife is piloting Glow e-portfolios in all its schools

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An interesting article published in TESS on 16 September, 2011 by Douglas Blane

Read the article here

Extract
E-portfolios can record children’s achievements during their educational journey in a form that can’t be lost, mislaid or eaten by the dog. At Wellwood Primary in Fife, Olivia Wexelstein’s pupils are starting young.

You go to this page first,” Alex (P6) explains, as she navigates confidently around her own e-portfolio, set up within Glow. “It’s called About Me. It asks about your interests and how you learn best. It helps you think about what to write.

“So it wanted to know if I learn best by seeing, hearing, doing, working on my own or working with others. I said ‘working with others’. We often work in groups in this class and I like it.”

The next step in setting up an e-portfolio illustrates some of the scope for personalisation. “We made a WeeMee – a little cartoon version of ourselves – and included that,” Alex says. “Mrs Wexelstein has a phone app that does them.”

Technology is a boon in a P4-7 composite class such as this, says Mrs Wexelstein, indicating the mixed-age and ability groups around the room, who are using laptops for blogging and linked Nintendos for maths games.

September 16th, 2011

e-portfolios in East Renfrewshire – Part 1

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In June 2011, just before the end of term, two of the East Renfrewshire clusters worked with their pupils to create e-portfolios using Glow Blogs. This involved Eastwood High School, St Ninian’s High School and their associated primary schools. In the secondary schools, every S1 pupil (the new S2 cohort) created an e-portfolio and in the primaries, every P7 pupil did so, in preparation for their transition to high school. In many of the primaries, the P6 pupils also created e-portfolios for use in P7 and beyond.

See more in the Glow Cookbook here

August 31st, 2011

BTC5 – using Glow for your school e-portfolio solution

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A national Glow E-portfolio group has been set up for schools who have requested, through their local authority, that the National Glow Team work with them, and for schools wishing to get started with e-portfolios themselves.

What will you find in the Glow Group

Planning Documents
Planning for e-portfolios and pre-requisities for e-portfolio training are 2 documents which you will need to consider, especially if you are working with the National Glow Team. They should ensure that you are taking the necessary steps to get ready for e-portfolios in your school. If you are working with us, we will let you know about timescales to get back to us.

Support Documents
If you are just getting started with e-portfolios in your school you may find the following documents helpful:

* Creating an e-portfolio blog
* Creating a School Glow Group to house e-portfolio links

If you are up and running with e-portfolios in your school you may find the following support documents helpful:

* Helping pupils post to their e-portfolio
* Teachers commenting on pupil e-portfolios
* Helpsheet for pupils accessing teacher comments

Videos
You will also find videos to support you with getting ready for e-portfolios. At the moment you will find videos on how to set up a Glow Group to house links to e-portfolios and one covering the process for pupils creating e-portfolios.