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, […]

Last week I found myself back in the beautiful (and very stormy!) Western Isles on a support visit for Glow. Over the course of the two days I spoke to many teachers and was able to see first-hand the difference that Glow is making in this remote community.
The best part of the visit for me […]

When Western Isles Glow Mentor Kirsteen Maclean told her pupils at Bernera Primary School she would be attending last month’s Glow conference in Stirling, she encouraged them to post their thoughts and ideas on the Glow discussion board. Checking the forum, Kirsteen was pleased to see that pupils had not only posted summaries of their […]

Following Glow Mentor training in Harris in January, two teachers have been working together to bring pupils from Paible(a 5-14 school on North Uist) together with pupils from Sgoil Lionacleit (a community secondary school on Benbecula) using Glow Meet.
Mary Ann MacDonald, a P6/7 teacher at Paible, and Liz MacMillan, a French teacher at Lionacleit, arranged […]

As storms go, it wasn’t the worst the islanders on Harris had experienced, but it did bring down power lines the night before the Glow team flew into the Western Isles for a two-day training session with Glow mentors. The damage blacked out television and radio signals.
As one mentor pointed out, it highlighted the difficulties […]