Glow Scotland

April 18th, 2012

Religious Leaders of Scotland on GlowTV – Monday 23rd April @2pm

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Religious Leaders of Scotland Glow TV event

Monday 23rd April 2pm – 2 45pm

An opportunity to engage with and question leaders from across religious faiths in Scotland on the theme of ‘How is religion and spirituality relevant today?’.

The leaders taking part include:

•The Most Rev. Mario Conti (Archbishop of Glasgow)
•Mr Allan Forsyth (Chair of the Baha’i Council of Scotland)
•Reverend John Chalmers, (Clerk of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
•The Most Reverend David Chillingworth (Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church)
•Imam Habib of Glasgow Central Mosque
•Rabbi Rubin, Jewish Community of Scotland
•Mrs Ravinder Kaur Nijjar (Sikh Community)
•Acharyaji Mishra (Priest of the Glasgow Hindu Mandir)
•Shobha Nagpal (President of the Glasgow Hindu Women’s Group)
•The Venerable Lama Yeshe Losal (Kagyu Samye Ling and Head Lama of Tibetan Buddhists in Scotland)
•The Venerable K Sri Rewatha (Chief Monk of the Sri Lankan Buddhist Community, Scottish Buddhist Vihara)
•Sr Isabel Smyth (Convener of the Scottish Inter Faith Council)
•Dr Maureen Sier (Director of the Scottish Inter Faith Council)
•Iain Stewart, Inter Faith Worker, Church of Scotland

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April 5th, 2012

Literacy & English revision support through Glow

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Literacy & English exam revision support pages on Glow

Are you looking for some revision pointers or support?  Log in to Glow and make use of the Literacy & English National Glow Group for pupils.

Find out more in the Glow Group, click here

April 3rd, 2012

Welcome to the Maths exam revision support pages

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Maths exam revision support pages on Glow

Are you looking for some revision pointers or support?  Log in to Glow and make use of the Numeracy & Mathematics National Glow Group for pupils.

Find out more in the Glow Group, click here

March 30th, 2012

Glow e-portfolio solution – Success in Fife

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On Friday 23rd March representatives from Glenrothes High School presented at an Education Scotland conference on Learner Voice at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. Three S1 pupils, accompanied by Mr Hunter, Depute Headteacher, were asked to highlight the good practice within the school in relation to the development of e-portfolios.

E-portfolios created in Glow Blogs and accessed via Glow, are a structured way for pupils to electronically record achievements both in and out of school. Seen as a vital part of the development within Curriculum for Excellence recording achievements becoming an integral part of any youngster’s education and offers pupils the chance to record, describe and reflect on their learning which is a core element in their overall development.

In a recent pilot project, Glenrothes High linked with Rimbleton Primary to develop e-portfolios for all primary seven pupils. Rimbleton pupils visited Glenrothes High to engage in a two hour tutorial when they successfully created their own e-portfolio and blogged about their visit to the school. This scenario can be considered to be extra special as the key drivers were former Rimbleton pupils, now in S1 at Glenrothes High who welcomed the current P7, spoke about life at the high school and acted as mentors throughout the session helping every pupil to not only create but immediately add content to their own e-portfolios.

Mr Trousdale, Headteacher of Rimbleton Primary, who was present throughout the session, said “This was a fantastic opportunity for our Primary 7 pupils to work alongside High School peers creating their online blogs. We are looking forward to sharing all aspects of our learning on the Glow platform!”.
As the primary seven pupils make the transition from primary to secondary, so will their e-portfolio which will be used to inform staff at Glenrothes High School of their latest and best achievements giving staff an important insight into each individual youngster. Such was the success of this event that three of the pupils involved told their story to a national audience of Headteachers, Local Authority Education Officers as well as representatives from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate. All present commented very positively on the presentation from the pupils involved.

Mr Hunter, DHT, was delighted with the girl’s contribution. “This was an amazing opportunity for all involved. The girls spoke with real confidence and assurance and highlighted their own good work as well as their thoughts and feelings about the use of e-portfolios in the school. The project with Rimbleton primary was a great success and one we hope to offer to our other associated primaries in the near future”.

March 28th, 2012

Live from the Traverse Theatre: Write Here – Open View

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The Artist Man and the Mother Woman by Morna Pearson
Director Roisin McBrinn

Join us on GlowTV, Thursday 19th April 2012 @ 16:00h

Forty-three year old art teacher Geoffrey still lives with his mother. He decides it’s about time he got his first girlfriend.

Come and see a Traverse Rehearsal in action!

When the Traverse commissions a writer, we work closely with them to develop the best version of the play they want to write.

Open View is your opportunity to observe this normally very private process, and see script development as it happens, at the source.

Sign up and join us for this Glow TV first! Find out more here

March 28th, 2012

Building the Curriculum 4: Moving into the senior phase

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Building the Curriculum 4: Moving into the Senior Phase. How Skills for learning, life and work develop within qualifications

Wednesday 18th April 2012 @ 16:00 on GlowTV

This Glow Meet is appropriate for all practitioners in secondary schools, and a recording of the session will be made available shortly after the event for practitioners in colleges and community based settings.

Building the Curriculum 4 supports the planning, design and delivery of the curriculum in early years’ establishments, schools and colleges. It sets out skills for learning, life and work showing the importance of developing them for all Scotland’s learners.

How can we build on skills learners have from their broad general education when they move into the senior phase? Should they be ‘naturally occurring’ or are they too important to leave to chance? During the session we will discuss how they feature in the new National qualifications, think about how they are/might be incorporated in subject areas to develop what learners need for their life now and in the future.

A key aim of this Glow Meet will be to promote discussion and to inspire practitioners to explore different approaches to skills development in the senior phase. Participants will have a key role in this session – to share enthusiasm, ideas and practice.

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March 23rd, 2012

Sport Relief 2012

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Are you taking part in Sport Relief 2012 this year? Why not find out what your school can do to get involved in this fun and fit event?!

Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives for 3 days per year (this year it is from 23rd – 25th March) but you can find out lots of ways to keep active and healthy in all through the year in the Health and Wellbeing Glow Group.

You may also want to download a Sport Relief quiz to get those brain cells working away on Sport Relief Day too!
Sport Relief Quiz 2012 – Primary

Sport Relief Quiz 2012 – Secondary

March 22nd, 2012

Purple Mash – How to Save Documents to your Computer.

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As of the 6th May 2012, Glow Users will not be able to access the Purple Mash online creative tools as this is when the licence expires, unless your school has purchased its own licence for these tools.  It is therefore important that Glow users save any work they have created inside Purple Mash to their own computer before this date.  This post explains how this can be done.

Log in to Purple Mash, and click on Online Docs, arrowed below, to see the documents which you’ve created and then stored in Glow.  Click on one of these documents to open it up.

Once you’ve successfully opened the document, there are two ways that any document may be saved:  either as a picture, or as a Purple Mash file.  Note that if you save a Purple Mash file, your school would need to have purchased a licence to open the file up again so that you could edit it in Purple Mash.

How to Save as a Graphic

To save the file as a graphic (picture), click on the export option, which can be seen below under number 1.  The button is a grey rectangle with a green arrow curving down.

Clicking on this export option takes us to the box we can see at number 2 above, where we give our file a name, and then click on the happy ‘Yes‘ to move to the last step, or the not-so-happy ‘No‘ to cancel doing this.

If we clicked on ‘Yes’ above, we tell the computer where we’d like the picture to be saved at number 3 above, and then click on Save.  Be sure to save this file to somewhere you will remember!

How to Save as a Purple Mash file

To save it to your computer, first, click on the picture of the blue disc, which is beneath letter a below.

When you do this, we are asked what we’d like to call this file, and where we’d like to save it – either online in Glow, or on your PC or mac.  As can be seen in picture b above, this file has been called house, and, if saved now, would be saved online.  We want to save this file on your computer, so click the down arrow after online? to change it to to my PC? as shown in picture c.  Finally, as shown in picture d, decide where you want to save it and then click on Save.  Be sure to save this file to somewhere you will remember!

March 14th, 2012

BBC News School Report – News Day

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BBC News School Report – News Day

Date and time: Thursday 15th March 2012 @ 09:00
Programme Duration: 1 hour 15 mins

On Thursday over 100 schools in Scotland will be taking part in BBC News School Report (1000 across the UK)

They will be making audio, film and online reports on news stories which matter to them working towards a 2pm deadline, ready to upload their reports to their School websites by 4pm.

The BBC links to their reports and will be featuring their progress throughout the day on the school report website and on the BBC Red Button – SR TV 9-10.15am and 2-4pm and SR Radio 1000-1400.

There will be a range of outside broadcasts ranging from Dumfries to the Olympic Park. Schools have been working on this throughout the year and the Scottish reporters have had a number of exciting opportunities including a trip to the Olympic Swimming trials in London and interviewing UK and Scottish party leaders as well as one school visiting the new set of Waterloo Road in Greenock.

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March 12th, 2012

E-Safety Live – Edinburgh 2012

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E-Safety Live, now in its 6th year, are landmark events bringing online safety providers, experts and global industry leaders together to participate and discuss with delegates the latest online safety topics.

Designed to aid practitioners in the UK to connect with providers, the events will focus on ways to better help safeguard children, as well as professionals, when online.

Workshops by influential organisations such as Facebook, Vodafone, Xbox (Microsoft) and CEOP can be attended throughout the day as well as opportunities to get those burning questions answered by the UK’s most knowledgeable professionals at our networking information fair.

Edinburgh – Thursday 22nd March 2012

Find out more here