Glow Scotland

October 11th, 2011

Daily Quote – Teacher stranded abroad? – No problem, use Glow!

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“A remarkable use of GLOW especially since she was trapped in such a difficult situation. This will definitely inspire others to use GLOW”

“What a fantastic and inspiring use of Glow! Well done to all involved!”

Iain Harvey & Sarah Burton

To find out more read the Cookbook here

October 10th, 2011

Daily Quote – FIFA 2010 World Cup in Inverclyde

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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

October 7th, 2011

Daily Quote – People who help us

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“Really useful way of teaching the topic, the pupils get really excited about it, when they see the log in screen, even on the smart board they shout Glow, Glow. It is something really exciting for them and it’s brilliant.”

Amy Lumsden and Ruth Torrance teach P1A at James Gillespie’s Primary School in Edinburgh. Following introductory training in Glow, Amy and Ruth were keen to investigate if the Glow tools and functionality could support learning and teaching in their class.

Read more on the cookbook here

October 3rd, 2011

Modern Studies Conference – Live from East Lothian

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, East Lothian, Events, Glow, Glow Meet, Social Studies

Join us live from Musselburgh Grammar School on Friday 7th October from 9.45am to take part in the ‘Higher Modern Studies Conference East Lothian 2011‘. The conference will have speakers presenting on Health and Wealth and also the impact of the media on politics.

We already have Susan Deacon, former Scottish Cabinet Minister and Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland Political Editor as speakers at this event. Susan from 9.45 – 10.45 and then Brian will be speaking at 11am. The full programme is still being finalised so join us on Friday for an exciting morning.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV!

September 20th, 2011

Glowing across the curriculum at Glenwood High School

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In this Glow cookbook find out how a number of staff, from different departments, have been using Glow to enhance learning and teaching. The video clips and Glow Group tours show the work that has been undertaken, the pupils’ responses and the lesson learned. Additional cookbooks focus on each teacher in turn, and provide the detail of how you can replicate (or adapt) their ideas.

The use of Glow at Glenwood has grown very rapidly over just a few months – thanks to the hard work of teaching staff and to those responsible for creating the accounts. Glow is becoming well embedded in the curriculum: it’s not viewed as an adjunct, but a tool to be used, when appropriate, to enhance learning and teaching.

In the new academic year, each department has been asked to have a Glow representative and for Glow to be included in development plans.

Read more here

September 13th, 2011

Using Glow to support an exam class

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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 one teacher, Kayleigh Brown, and explore how she has used Glow with her Standard Grade History class. In the Recipe section, video clips show how you can replicate Kayleigh’s use of an “Upload your homework” web part to allow pupils to submit work confidentially.

See more in the Glow Cookbook here.

August 11th, 2011

Explore the past and explain the present with Whose Town?

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Whose Town? is an innovative resource for teaching social studies. It is a fun and interactive digital resource which brings Edinburgh’s history to life. It has been made available to all Glow users and can be found in the Whose Town? Glow Group, you can follow the link from here or from the National Site.

It is built on the City of Edinburgh’s heritage collections and is linked to the Curriculum for Excellence second, third and fourth levels.

Whose Town? looks at Edinburgh and Scotland’s past from 1850s to the 1950s through the eyes of people who lived there. There are 14 lives to discover who lived in Victorian times, at the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Second World War and in the Fifties. Archival material is collected in a digital box and hidden in an attic for pupils to uncover and examine. Each life is captured at a particular point in history, creating a snapshot of their life: a Life in a Box.

Discover how life was for Levi, a destitute and orphaned boy in late Victorian Edinburgh or learn about Robert Louis Stevenson, a young writer studying at Edinburgh University, but destined to travel the world. Learn how nine year old Bessie became the youngest Suffragette or uncover Italian Luca’s story as he established an ice cream business in Musselburgh. Nancy tells what life was like as an evacuee in the country and then as a schoolgirl in a city at war. Hear a first hand account from Hugh about his time working on Edinburgh’s trams in the Fifties or the early days of television from Bill.

There are over 450 unique and original documents for teachers and pupils to explore. Maps, newspaper articles, photographs, objects, documents, video and audio clips, and the bits and bobs that everyone collects are all used to bring each person’s history to life. Whose Town? also contains a wealth of support materials for teachers from lesson plans to ideas on how to use archival materials in the classroom.

Whose Town? is a Heritage Lottery Funded project. It was developed by Edinburgh City Libraries in collaboration with Edinburgh Museums and Galleries and Edinburgh City Archives, and has been supported by many partner organisations.

For more information contact the Digital and Information Team at Central Library in Edinburgh on 0131 242 8047. You’ll also find a wide range of supporting material on Edinburgh City Libraries, Museums and Galleries’ online image library, Capital Collections.

July 26th, 2011

Glow TV

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Early Years, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow, Glow Meet, Health and Wellbeing, Learner Resources, Literacy, Local authorities, Mathematics, Moving Image Education, National Groups, Pupils, Religious and Moral Education, Sciences, Social Studies, Technologies, Uncategorized, modern languages, research

Glow TV is our way of bringing the National Glow Meets to you from the one, easy to find, place. Launching for the start of the new term, we have a major schedule of ‘programmes’ planned for the coming session, including, hopefully, a whole series of programmes on topics such as: CfE, SQA, Glow, Glowing Thursdays, World of Work Wednesdays, Creativity, Games Design and Moving Image Education.

This is, of course, in addition to the many exciting events we already broadcast through Glow, such as the author events from the Scottish Book Trust and Edinburgh Book Festival, as well as those hugely popular one-offs like the Dr Who event and the NASA astronauts one, for example. All of these Glow national events will now be accessed through the one central place, Glow TV.

We are now using new software for Glow Meet (Adobe Connect) and this software allows us access to a recording of a Glow Meet, instantly from within Glow. That got us thinking that we could really develop the idea of Glow Meets further and offer a kind of ‘Watch Again’ facility, a bit like the online efforts of the major TV channels. Okay, so we don’t have the equipment or resources that the major TV channels do, but we have created an area in Glow that provides users with a schedule and allows users the opportunity to add programmes to their own, personal, schedule when they sign-up for events.

Signing-up for these events/programmes is easier now, too. Instead of having to complete a sign-up form for every event you want to take part in, all you have to do is register once for Glow TV and then choose your username from a drop-down list whenever you wish to sign-up to a specific event. Easy.

It is hoped that a lot of the programmes we bring you will include live debate/discussion on important topics in Education, as well as many online training programmes.We have managed to procure a little room in Education Scotland’s Optima office in Glasgow and turn it into our very own Glow TV studio, which even has a couch and a coffee table, so that our presenters look like true TV professionals in the making!

So, with a whole schedule of programmes you can tailor to your own personal guide, easy sign-up and channel categories to make it easy to find recordings and watch again, Glow TV is a brilliant addition to Glow’s assets. To register for Glow TV and then be able to have your own personal schedule and easy sign-up for programmes, click here.

April 4th, 2011

Question Time in East Lothian

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, East Lothian, Glow Meet, Pupils, Social Studies

As the Scottish Parliamentary Elections are fast approaching, a secondary school in East Lothian is joining in the political debate and will be sharing this opportunity with other schools throughout Scotland.

On Friday 8th April from 10 – 11am Musselburgh Grammar School will be hosting its own Question Time event to allow senior pupils to put pressing questions to PPCs and find out about the policies of the different political parties.
The panel consists of Iain Gray, Kenny MacAskill, Robin Harper, Derek Brownlee and former pupil Aidan Simpson who is standing for the SSP.

Why not sign up and join the senior pupils at Musselburgh Grammar and have an opportunity to ask questions yourself?!

Sign up and join us on Friday 8th April.

March 4th, 2011

A Virtual Photo Album for Glow

Julia Fenby

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As part of their Co-Create project, Street Level Photoworks have created  a virtual photo album for Glow. The album contains collections of works by celebrated photographers, including John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, whose subjects have included Martin Luther King and the Beatles; and Colin Gray’s moving photo essays: The Parents and In Sickness & In Health.

Accompanying each body of photographic work are participatory activities and through the Glow group, opportunities for teachers and pupils to share learning.

Soon to be launched, this national Glow group will include:

- Videos of artists discussing photography

- Downloadable teachers notes

- Online exhibitions by participants uploaded on the site

Activities based on the photographic galleries and videos are curriculum linked, supporting a range of curriculum subjects and themes including Art and Design, English, Higher Photography and Modern Studies.

In addition, the resource includes information on the history of photography, how cameras work and practical guidance on how to create a camera obscura and a pinhole camera.

Co-Create is funded through a partnership between Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Creative Scotland National Lottery Fund.