Glow Scotland

September 2nd, 2011

Screening Shorts – New Moving Image Education Resource

GerryQ

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The team is currently busy working on Screening Shorts, a major new online resource to help teachers exploit moving image education in the classroom.

Developed by Creative Scotland and Education Scotland, Screening Shorts will be unveiled at SLF 2011, 21-22 Spetember 2011.

The resource will provide:

• Approximately 50 downloadable short films, free to Glow users
• Film tutorials explaining the core concepts of film language
• Lesson examples in film format showing how short films can be used for a wide variety of classroom activities
• A link to CPD opportunities and activities for teachers wishing to explore how to use moving image across Curriculum for Excellence
• A gateway to the growing Moving Image Education online community on Glow.

Watch this space for more information before and during SLF 2011…

July 26th, 2011

Glow TV

pcurrie

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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.

October 29th, 2010

Scotland on Screen – a Moving Image Education resource

GerryQ

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Scotland on Screen is an exciting educational resource that puts hundreds of important historical film texts online, providing a rear-view mirror on our society over the past century.

It’s a web-based resource developed by National Library of Scotland, Creative Scotland, Learning and Teaching Scotland and Scran.

Scotland on Screen has now been up and running for over a year and has proved to be very popular among teachers and practitioners across Scotland. During 2010, the resource was further developed with the inclusion of a considerably enhanced collection of archive material that can be used across the curriculum.

The website provides short film material and resources for Glow users to use as part of their teaching in the classroom. The public can browse and view the collection of clips on the website but Glow users can log into the site via Glow to also download film clips of interest for reuse in the classroom.

Sitting underneath the main Moving Image National Glow Group, Glow users can access the Scotland on Screen Glow Group – a place to share knowledge, information and content surrounding the resource. Users can also catch up on the latest news and information as well as discuss topics of relevance and interest through the Scotland on Screen Glow Forum. So far, we’ve found that the resource has been of interest and benefit to teachers using it across a variety of subjects and curricular areas including social studies, literacy and health and wellbeing. Scotland on Screen has also been of value to Moving Image Education practitioners.

October 28th, 2010

Scottish Book Trust Online Teacher in Residence Events

Katie Barrowman

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The Scottish Book Trust’s fantastic Online Teacher in residence scheme is in full swing, with some excellent CPD opportunities for teachers. Visit the links below for more details on how to get involved.

1. Choke Chain: Online Teachers’ Book Group Tuesday 2 November at 4pm. Glow Chat featuring Choke Chain by Jason Donald – a dramatic debut novel looking at aspects of a difficult family life, set in South Africa. Suitable for upper secondary level but all teachers welcome. We still have 5 books to give away.
Click here for more details.

2. How to Teach Creative Writing – Tuesday 16 November at 4pm. Glow Meet featuring professional writer and teacher of writing Nick Hesketh on the why, what and how’s of teaching creative writing. A two-part series, participants must be registered and attend the first session on the 16th November in order to gain access to the second session on the 230th November. We only have 6 places left.
Click here for more details.

3. Royal Mail Awards Book Groups – Tuesday 14 December at 4pm. Choose from three simultaneous Glow Chats discussing each of the shortlisted books per ages group for the Royal Mail Awards and how they could be used as cross-curricular lesson tools in class.
Click here for more details.

October 27th, 2010

Moving Image Education – Glow National Group

GerryQ

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Moving Image Education (MIE) is fast becoming an integral part of 21^st century literacy and modern teaching practice. Using moving image texts as a source in addition to the written word has been proved to vastly increase wider literacy skills, confidence, engagement and fun in the classroom.

Learning and Teaching Scotland is working in partnership with Creative Scotland to make moving image education more accessible and active within Glow

We now have a Moving Image Education National Glow Group which is steadily being populated with information, resources and CPD opportunities. Work is also underway to engage with Glow users across Scotland and encourage them to participate in interesting and relevant topics of discussion through the group’s Glow Forum. There are some Glow Meets planned too.

We look forward to seeing you on Glow.

October 5th, 2010

Critical Skills – CPD Meet with Sarah Burton

Gail Cairns

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Join Sarah Burton at 4pm on Wednesday 6th October for this Critical Skills CPD Meet.

Sarah is a Primary School teacher, currently working with Learning and Teaching Scotland as a Glow Development Officer.

In this CPDMeet, Sarah shares her own experience on the value of Critical Skills. Sarah also acts as a facilitator for the National Glow group for Critical Skills.

Find out more and sign up now in the National CPDCentral Glow Group.

May 10th, 2010

Learn more about SCHOLAR – Glowing Thursday 13th May

J Jelly

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Many secondary teachers in Scotland, and beyond, have already discovered what a great resource SCHOLAR is.  From mainly Advanced Higher, and then Higher, in Maths, Computing and Science subjects, SCHOLAR now has online courses in Information Systems, French, German, Spanish, Accounting, Economics, Business Management and Psychology.  There are even introductory lessons in Mandarin that can be accessed without a login, along with previews of other courses. 

Did you know that if you access SCHOLAR from this Glow page in the National External Resources area, your Glow login can be “married” to your SCHOLAR login (so you just need to remember one login!)?

Jim McGill, SCHOLAR’s National Co-ordinator, will be delivering SCHOLAR’s first virtual CPD event via Glow Meet on Glowing Thursday this week (13 May from 4-5pm).

Jim has a lot of experience in education, with a background in physics teaching and school management, before joining the SCHOLAR team in 2004. His current role means he coordinates all the training events across Scotland, and trains the trainers. He sees SCHOLAR as a terrific resource which can improve lessons and help pupils.

Jim’s presentation will be a general introduction to SCHOLAR and will be useful for teachers of all subjects covered by SCHOLAR.  It will be of particular interest to teachers new to the system and those who need a refresher. Jim hopes that more teachers will build SCHOLAR into their lessons, and encourage their pupils to use all the helpful features.

February 9th, 2010

Eric Booth to launch Scottish Book Trust Online Teacher in Residence Programme via Glow Meet!

Katie Barrowman

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The Scottish Book Trust Online Teacher in Residence is an online teaching and CPD resource community and programme of events aimed at teachers in Scotland interested in creative learning approaches to literature and literacy within Curriculum for Excellence.

Working with two practising teachers, Scottish Book Trust will develop a diverse range of online teaching and CPD resources, and an online community where teachers can benefit from:
• regular CPD resources and events
• best practice examples
• shared teaching resources
• interaction with like-minded colleagues

Teachers will be able to connect with Online Teacher in Residence through a dedicated web space or our national Glow Group.

Eric Booth will be hosting the online launch via a Glow Meet at 4pm on Thursday 25th February. In order to attend this event, teachers will need to sign up via the Online Teacher in Residence Glow Group before 24th February 2010.

Please sign up by clicking here.

The Online Teacher in Residence web space can be found by clicking here.

Further information can be found on the Scottish Book trust website by clicking here.

If your or colleagues have any additional questions, please email otir@scottishbooktrust.com

December 21st, 2009

Scottish CILT Professional Reading Group: Thursday 28th January 2010

Katie Barrowman

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Guest Post from Catriona Oates of Scottish CILT

If you have ever taken part in a book discussion group and thought the format might well be useful for professional purposes, then put this date in your diary – Thursday 28th January 4pm -5pm.

At Scottish CILT ( the Scottish Centre for Information on Languages Teaching and Research ) we are committed to supporting the professional development of languages teachers across Scotland. We do this in several ways: through our programme of CPD events both national and local, on an outreach basis; through our news updates and enquiry service, and through the on-line educational journal, the Scottish Languages Review. We dipped our toes into Glow last session and had our first on-line CPD event in June, which was very successful, attracting 17 participants from across Scotland. We then live streamed the keynote talks from our national conference on MLPS in September.

This session, we took inspiration from David Niven of Wallace High School in Stirling and decided to follow his lead and organise a virtual professional reading group. This is a great idea that David started in his department and it hits a lot of targets for us. We like to think that we help teachers develop professionally through reflection on their own practice and engaging in professional dialogue.

We know that money is tight and CPD budgets are coming under increasing strain; we edit and publish a cost –free educational journal of relevance to languages teachers. It is the most frequently visited part of our website attracting hits worldwide, but we’d like more teachers in Scotland to be aware of it and make use of it, so our first reading text will be Content and Language Integrated Learning : Motivating Students, Motivating Teachers by Prof Do Coyle of Aberdeen University. Do gave the keynote talk at our September national conference and inspired many teachers to think about content and how we approach this in languages classrooms. We’d like to take a closer look at her thoughts on this and make a space to discuss what might be attractive in this idea; what might the barriers be, and where these ideas fits in with Curriculum for Excellence.

If you’d like to join us please get in touch – either with Mandy Reeman Clark (mandy.reemanclark@strath.ac.uk) or myself, Catriona.Oates@strath.ac.uk to register interest for the event and download your free copy of the reading paper. Looking forward to seeing you in the new year!

August 17th, 2009

Graphic Novels CPD Event – Reminder

Katie Barrowman

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This is just a quick reminder that Dr Mel Gibson will be speaking from the Edinburgh International Book Festival this Thursday from 17:00, and you can join her via Glow Meet – click on this link to go to the group.

Dr Gibson recently wrote the Learning and Teaching Scotland resource Graphic Novels in the Classroom, and those who join the meet can expect an inspiring hour, finding out what comics and graphic novels can do for young people.

If you’ve never use Glow Meet but are interested in getting involved, why not have a trial run beforehand? There will be a member of the Glow Team in the meeting room at the following times:

Tuesday 18th August:
10:00 – 11:00
13:00 – 14:00

Wednesday 19th August:
15:00 – 17:00

Drop in during any of those times to make sure you have access to Glow Meet. This helpsheet contains a few tips for getting started, and you’ll find a contact email within the group if you’re having difficulty accessing the Glow Meet.

We hope to see lots of you on Thursday for what will be a really interesting opportunity.