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February 8th, 2012

Schools TV from Dumfries & Galloway

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Schools across Dumfries & Galloway are giving every other school in Scotland the opportunity to join them as they broadcast lots of fantastic outdoor activities through GlowTV.

So what’s planned:

Monday 20th of February @ 9:30 – 10:15
Photography can be done by anyone, anywhere. What’s around your school? In this session, live from their local environment, the pupils from the Gatehouse Primary School camera club & the Forestry Commision will show you how.

Tuesday 21st of February @ 9:30 – 10:15
What’s around your school? What’s the space used for? Join St Mungo Primary in their outdoor classroom. Find out how they use their space and what activities they enjoy. You will have the opportunity to post your comments and questions.

Thursday 23rd of February @ 09:30-10:15
Join the pupils of Shawhead Primary learning how to encourage birds to come to their school grounds. Find out some amazing facts about the birdlife in their environment and learn how to build your very own nestbox.

Friday 24th of February @ 09:30-10:15
Do you enjoy playing board games? If so, why not join Tom, Liz and the pupils from Loreburn and Applegarth as they find out which environmental or wildlife themed board game will earn their school the title of ‘The Dr Finlayson Challenge Winners 2012′.

Monday 27th of February @ 9:30 – 10:15
Podcasting can be done by anyone, anywhere. If you have listened to the radio and wished you could have a go, you can! Ae Primary are going to demonstrate how they would report on the environment around their school. What’s around your school? What’s the space used for? When you’ve seen a live demonstration from a BBC Producer, you will have the opportunity to create and share your own podcast.

Tuesday 28th of February @ 9:30 – 10:15
The epic journey of the goose. The answers are –

1.Svalbard
2.48hours
3.Stormy weather

But what are the questions?

Join Wigtown Primary, Caerlaverock Primary and Longyearbyen Skole in Norway in partnership with Brian Morrell WWT Caerlaverock and Elizabeth Tindall D&G Ranger Service.

Wednesday 29th @ 9:30 – 10:15
Review & Share Time. If you have taken part in previous programmes of this series come and join in with the review and sharing.

So sign up to join in and find out more here

February 8th, 2012

Challenge Sectarianism – Accreditation Scheme for Schools

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Nil By Mouth is a charity organisation which offers free services to all Scottish schools to challenge sectarianism. We provide workshops for all ages, primary and secondary.

They have recently launched the Nil by Mouth Champion for Change Accreditation Scheme. This accreditation will acknowledge and promote schools that are actively working to challenge sectarianism through the school and the wider community. Find out more on their National Glow Group.

February 2nd, 2012

Glovember Winners – join us on February 10th

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Glovember – February 10th Winners’ Session

We’ve finally made our decisions on winners and runners-up from your fantastic entries to our Glovember – Glow Book Month writing competition. There were so many excellent pieces of writing in all three of our age categories that it was a very difficult choice. We were thrilled by the number of entries submitted and in awe of the quality.

On Friday 10th February we will be having a Glow TV session where one of our most popular authors, Lari Don, will be returning to announce the winners and read some of their stories.

There will be a winner in each of the categories : early primary, later primary and secondary. There will also be four runners-up in every category. All 15 of these entries will be published in an e-book in the Glovember Glow Group.

There is a Discussion Board in the Glovember Glow Group so please leave us your feedback.

Please join us on the morning of Friday 10th February through Glow TV for a fantastic session. Final timings and details will follow soon.

January 24th, 2012

Climate Change Debate on Glow 2: Climate science – evidence versus controversy

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A series of thought-provoking and lively Glow meets

2pm – 3:15pm, Monday 30th January 2012

Climate change is never far from the headlines and is an issue which continues to cause much debate and controversy. Scandals such as Himalayagate and the hacking of emails at the University of East Anglia have shaken public confidence in the credibility of climate science. Media reporting of the issue has also left the sections of the public with the view that the scientific evidence is contested and inconclusive.

What is the scientific community saying about climate change? How much of the evidence is beyond doubt? What do scientists agree on and what do they disagree on? Amid claims of manipulation of evidence and conspiracies, who can we believe?

In this, the second in a series of three national Glow meets, learners will have a chance to air their views and put searching questions to our panel of scientists including:

- Dr. Dave Reay, Senior Lecturer in Carbon Management at the University of Edinburgh and author of Our Planet Needs You! A Kid’s Guide to Going Green.

- Dr. Richard Milne, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh – winner of EUSA award for innovative teaching as voted for by students across the university.

Visit http://bit.ly/climatedebate2 to register, post your questions in advance and join the Glow meet on the day. This Glow meet is aimed at learners in upper primary and secondary schools.

For resources and videos on climate change visit Weather and Climate Change, Exploring Climate Change, STEM Central and Climate Change on Glow.

Other events in the series include:

- Glow meet 1: Our changing weather and climate – To view the Glow Meet recording click here.

- Glow meet 3: Adapting to climate change (6th Feb ’12)

January 23rd, 2012

Debating in Primary 7

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Jennifer Neill is a teacher at Alexander Peden Primary School in North Lanarkshire. This year Jennifer’s remit has been to share a Primary Two class with a probationer teacher and support the other teachers in the school with the roll out of Glow. To do this she regularly meets with class teachers to discuss what interdisciplinary work they are completing in class and they look at ways in which Glow can compliment and support this. At present all pupils in the school have Glow log ons and are actively using Glow.

In Primary 7 the pupils were studying a topic on Vivisection for Literacy. Within this topic the pupils had a debate as to whether they agreed or disagreed with animal testing. The pupils first of all, after some research, had to consider all the reasons for and all the reasons against in relation to animal testing. The pupils then created short videos, using a video camera, giving an argument for or against animal testing, whichever they agreed with. In this cookbook we will look at how Jennifer and Scott Clark (North Lanarkshire Glow Development Officer) used Glow to support this Literacy activity.

Find out more in the Cookbook here.

January 19th, 2012

新年快乐 – Celebrate Chinese New Year with Glow

Jennifer McDougall

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Glow along with LTS Confucius Institute’s Confucius Classroom Hubs celebrate the Chinese New Year of the dragon with a series of events highlighting what is going on in schools across Scotland to mark these exciting celebrations. Beginning on Monday the 23rd January and lasting for 15 days
Glow will be presenting a programme of different Glow Meets looking at Chinese culture and celebration.

On the 23rd we will be joined by several of the Confucius Classroom Hubs who will be sharing what they have/are intending to do to welcome this new year and we hope that you can join us too and let us know what you are doing in your classrooms across Scotland to mark this event. Even if you do not have anything to share why not join us anyway and find out more about the Year of the Dragon? Sign up and join us on the 23rd January.

On the 6th February we will be continuing the programme with a special event live from the Glasgow Film Festival entitled King of Masks. Through Glow Meet you can watch the live introduction to the film and take part in a workshop with Chinese opera singer and Ricefield workshop leader Fong Liu from St. Ninian’s High School who will be dressed in full Chinese costume. You can also obtain your own free DVD of the film to watch in school that day as well. Find out more about this event and how to get your free DVD in Glow TV.

Finally on the afternoon of the 6th February join us for 龙年大吉 Good luck with the year of dragon – Close of Celebrations. This Glow Meet will be bringing to a close the Chinese New Year celebrations in Glow with a look at the Lantern Festival, a traditional Chinese festival since Han Dynasty more than 2000 years ago. We will have images from the event that took place on 20th January in Fife and also find out more about this from the Confucius Hubs. We also hope to hear from you too and what you have done to celebrate Chinese New Year in your school. Sign up and join us for this event.

You can also find related resources for 2012 – The Chinese Year of the Dragon on the Education Scotland website.

January 16th, 2012

Enliven the classroom or home with hundreds of spectacular short films that inspire a real understanding of science

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Glow Science is an online resource comprising hundreds of short films. The resource is for teachers and for learners from age 8 to 14.

The films are mapped to Curriculum for Excellence outcomes and experiences, and cover all four science disciplines: Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Earth Science. Glow Science films are also fully supported by Learning Materials containing key questions, downloadable PDF documents, quizzes, diagrams, handouts as well as examples of activities and discussions.

What makes Glow Science so unique?
* A Dynamic Teaching Resource
* Hundreds of outstanding new short films on Science
* Keyword and curriculum links
* Researched and written by academics, producers and scientists
* Supported by Learning Materials with diagrams and quizzes
* Bringing science to life with stunning visuals, music and clear graphics

The World’s Best Footage
Glow Science draws on footage from the very best film archives around the world including BBC Motion Gallery, NHK (Japan), CBS (USA), ABC (Australia), CCTV (China), Getty Images, The Science Photo Library, NASA, and many others. Glow Science uses these footage sources to produce original films that access the very best of the world’s most recent documentary footage.

An Outstanding Team
Glow Science films have been produced by experienced television writers and film editors working closely with teachers and scientists.

Click on the Glow Science button on the national site

January 13th, 2012

Get Involved at Edinburgh Zoo

Jennifer McDougall

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Following on from the successful Hello Giant Pandas Glow Meet held at the end of December (remember you can still Watch Again if you missed it!) Edinburgh Zoo is pleased to highlight two events taking place there this term.

The first ‘Teaching Biodiversity with Beavers’ is a cross-curricular CPD training event for primary and secondary teachers. This session will look at how to bring biodiversity into the classroom with a range of curriculum-linked activities and to learn more about the first formal trial reintroduction of a mammal into the wild in Britain.

This event takes place on Friday 27th January from 12.30 – 4pm and includes a viewing of the Giant Pandas at 11.45am! You can find more details in the Sciences Glow Group.

The second event is a Global Classroom Conference at Edinburgh Zoo. The conference entitled, ‘Invasive Species Living with the alien threat’ is designed to support the new SQA Higher Biology syllabus. Join in for the 7th RZSS Global Classroom event and discover the impact of invasive non-native species on Scotland and the world’s biodiversity.

Looking at particular at:
What are invasives?
What impacts do they have on native wildlife? How do we control them?

This is a free event being held on Thursday 1st March. Find out more in the Sciences Glow Group.

January 5th, 2012

Glowing over the festive period

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It was good to see so many pupils, teachers and staff continuing to use Glow over the festive period. Here are the top ten most popular national Glow Groups during the period of the 23rd of December – 4th of January 2012:

1 CPDCentral
access the CPDCentral group, click here

2 Pupils Common Room
access the Pupils Common Room group, click here

3 GlowTV
access the GlowTV group, click here

4 Glow Games
5 Staffroom
6 Consolarium
7 Glovember
8 Literacy and English
9 Numeracy and Mathematics
10 Assessment

December 22nd, 2011

The Great Climate Change Debate – Join us on Glow

Jennifer McDougall

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A series of interactive and lively Glow meets

In November this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change launched a report warning that climate change is likely to lead to more extreme weather. Within weeks of this launch, Scotland was battered by severe flooding and hurricane force winds which brought much of the country to a standstill. Is our climate already changing? What will climate change mean for Scotland? How can we respond positively and adapt to the changes ahead?

We’re inviting your school to join the great climate change debate. We’ll be bringing together a panel of scientists and experts to answer questions, spark debate and discussion and help learners navigate their way through climate fact, fiction and controversy.

* Glow meet 1: Our changing weather and climate (23rd Jan ’12)
* Glow meet 2: Climate science – evidence versus controversy (30th Jan ’12)
* Glow meet 3: Adapting to climate change (6th Feb ’12)

Each Glow meet will take place from 2pm to 3:15pm. These events are for learners in secondary schools.

Please see links below for further details about each event:

GLOW-MEET-1-Our-changing-weather-and-climate-23Jan122

GLOW-MEET-2-Climate-science-evidence-vs-controversy-30Jan12

GLOW-MEET-3-Adapting-to-climate-change-6Feb12

For resources and videos on climate change visit Weather and Climate Change, Exploring Climate Change and Climate Change on Glow.