Jim Reid tells us how a Christmas Glow Group has resulted in some teachers using Glow Meet for the first time in their classes:
18 primary schools took part in a Glow Meet session to meet Santa on Thursday 18 December over two sessions. We used one Glow meet link to each school.  In the sessions Santa (who bore […]

Today a small group of folk drawn from Aberdeen City, Angus, Midlothian, RM and Learning & Teaching Scotland got together for a workshop with a consultant to look into the area of Benefits Realisation. Part of the day was spent thinking about the original high level strategic benefits that the rollout of Glow would bring […]

(Blog post written by Louise Henderson -  Education Support Officer ICT EY/Primary Educational Development Service Dundee City Council).
A group of educationalists from Singapore visited Dundee last week to observe how they are using Glow to enhance learning and teaching in their schools.   The day began with an introduction to Glow and a tour of the role based […]

Tynewater Primary School in Midlothian had just finished its Glow training and was raring to go – too good an opportunity to miss I thought! So last week I enjoyed an exciting week working with a class of Primary 4 children to create work to showcase to their school.
The class had undertaken a Waste Management […]

24th & 25th November saw the first national Glow Learn training sessions, held at Stirling Management Centre. Representatives of Aberdeen, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, South Lanarkshire and Western Isles attended this well-structured, intensive two-day residential course – the first of several to come over the next few months.
The course was introduced by Ian Hoffman, […]

At the end of last week I was in Dundee as part of their ‘Making Connections’ Event - the theme of which was using ICT to enhance Curriculum for Excellence and Learning Together.
As many teachers in Dundee City are already using the Glow portal and Glow groups really successfully my role was to talk about […]

I had a very busy but enjoyable day in Aberdeen today: making presentations at three venues to a total of 500 teachers.
My first presentation was a  live tour of Glow at Hazelhead Academy, for teachers who know about Glow and have log ins. This school is set to be a leading light for Glow in ACC. My second presentation was with […]

I spent a fun two days in Dumfries and Galloway this week, taking part in three different events geared towards getting people onto and using Glow.
On Wednesday night, I joined the D&G Glow team for a Glow roadshow, where the cluster primary teachers gathered for a demo and introduction to Glow. There was a real […]

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Recently I have been in North Berwick and Edinburgh discussing Glow with our partners in the National Parks and Outdoor Learning National Glow Group. I met with Emily Dodd, the Education Officer at the Scottish Seabirds Centre (SSC) in North Berwick. She has an amazing classroom at the harbour and some fantastic technology to back it up. Using large screens, linked […]

On 28/29 October, Martin Brown and I were working with a new wave of Glow Mentors in Aberdeen this week. Martin did the bulk of the sessions, mentoring me in my new role as Glow D.O., as well as mentoring the mentors! The new mentors are a great bunch and will make a real impact […]