Glow Scotland

September 2nd, 2011

Screening Shorts – New Moving Image Education Resource

GerryQ

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Expressive Arts, Glow, Glow Groups, Learner Resources, Literacy, Media Literacy, Moving Image Education, National Groups

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…

February 4th, 2011

A weekly round-up from The Daily What

Gail Cairns

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The Daily What News is an exciting news service for schools. Launched in September, The Daily What News is written by journalists in a way that is suitable and accessible for children aged 9 and above, the site offers teaching ideas and suggestions, including interactive quizzes and animated illustrations that extend the life of the news stories. 
 

The Daily What recently hit its first milestone, publishing its 100th edition – issued on Thursday 3rd Feb. The popular resource has had over 30,000 visitors since it was launched and to support  The Daily What’s growing success, the resource has now created a weekly round-up of the week’s top stories. The round-up is available to all Glow users, will be issued to subscribers every Monday.

Sign-up now to receive the weekly Daily What update by visiting the national Daily What Glow Group. The sign-up is open to pupils and staff alike. Email information will be kept confidential, so users will not be aware of other users’ email information.

December 21st, 2010

Embedding Glow in daily learning and teaching

Gail Cairns

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 : Categories Fife, Glow, Glow Groups

Olivia Wexelstein teaches a P4-7 class at Wellwood Primary School in Fife. Olivia has been using Glow since January 2010 and is extrememly positive about the opportunities it has opened up. Glow is rapidly becoming embedded into daily life in the classroom: to share learning, to record pupils’ experiences and achievements, and to give pupils a voice.

Olivia’s Glow Group is constantly evolving with more content and extra pages being added as learning progresses in the classroom. The Group has a strong sense of identity, the teacher and pupils have very much made their own working space. For reading work the class splits into 5 small groups, each group has their own page in the Glow Group, with a photo of the group members, a list of learning intentions, an image of the book they are currently reading and a document area where they can upload their written work. Pupils are proud of their group and keen to share this with their parents and carers at home.

Visit this cookbook and find out more about the Glow Group that Olivia and her P4-7 class use daily.

December 2nd, 2010

Re-setting Glow passwords

Gail Cairns

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 : Categories Glow, Glow Groups, West Lothian

Logging pupils into Glow

The Logging Pupils into Glow cookbook provides guidance on getting started with Glow and how to reset a pupils Glow password, with a fantastic step-by-step video demonstrating how to do this.  

After the Headteacher, Susan Mackenzie, and another member of staff received some initial Glow training, all staff were encouraged to use Glow to support their classroom learning and teaching activities. As Harrysmuir school is double-stream, it was initially decided to have one Glow Group per stage. Some teachers then decided to have one group per class.

Teacher, Sarah Burton set up a Glow Group for her primary 6 class which involved various phases. The first step was to issue the class with Glow log ons. Initially Sarah gave the pupils a Glow label with their local authority password printed on it. The pupils then went to the Glow website, via a link on the council homepage. The first time pupils logged on they were  directed to a page that prompted them to change their password. 

Sarah encouraged all pupils to choose a new password they would remember, such as red car1, or blue cat1. Our Glow Mentor decided that we should put a number at the end, so when it comes to changing the pupils password (every 180 days) they could simply keep the same password but change the number.

Sarah has created step-by-step videos showing the various phases of this project and demonstrating how to reset a pupils password.

Visit this cookbook to find out more.

November 1st, 2010

National Library of Scotland Glow Group Launched

Katie Barrowman

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The National Library of Scotland (NLS) has just launched its new Glow group, which is open to everyone with a Glow logon. Visit the group to find out more about one of the great libraries of the world.

NLS is is an information treasure trove of Scotland’s knowledge, history and culture, with millions of books, manuscripts and maps covering every subject and spanning the centuries from early times to the digital age. The Learning Team at the library is currently working on a new Learning Zone on their website which will help make this unique collection available to teachers and learners throughout Scotland. They are now inviting suggestions from the Glow community on what type of resources you’d like to see and use from the National Library. They’re keen to get feedback from a wide variety of Glow users so check out the group and register your interest, they’d love to hear from you.

October 29th, 2010

Scotland on Screen – a Moving Image Education resource

GerryQ

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Glow Groups, Homecoming, Literacy, Moving Image Education, National Groups, Social Studies

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 27th, 2010

Languages on Screen – a Moving Image Education resource

GerryQ

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Glow Groups, Literacy, Moving Image Education, National Groups, modern languages

Languages on Screen is a web-based resource developed by Creative Scotland, Learning and Teaching Scotland and Scran. The website provides short film material and resources for Glow users to aid the teaching of Modern Languages in the classroom. The public can only access parts of the website but Glow users can log into the site via Glow to access all its content. This includes the ability to browse and download film clips of interest for reuse in the classroom.

Sitting underneath the main Moving Image National Glow Group, Glow users can access the Languages 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 Languages on Screen Glow Forum. We hope this resource is of interest to Modern Languages teachers as well as Moving Image Education practitioners.

October 27th, 2010

Moving Image Education – Glow National Group

GerryQ

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Expressive Arts, Literacy, Moving Image Education, National Groups

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.

September 29th, 2010

Glowing Cookbook – Health and Enterprise – A winning combination!

Gail Cairns

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 : Categories Angus, Glow Groups, Pupils

Ruth Doctor teaches at Northmuir Primary School in Angus. Last year Ruth was looking for a new enterprise activity for the P5 classes to undertake.  After discussing this with the Enterprise Development Officer in the authority, Ruth was very taken with the suggestion that the pupils could take on the planning and organisation of Health Week.

This cookbook looks at how the P5 class used a Glow Group to inform other classes about Health Week. The Glow group was also used to share learning resources they had created, to display photos of the Health Week activities and to evaluate the project.

While Glow had been used to some degree to support Health Week previously, Ruth was very keen last year to take full advantage of the collaborative environment. Her aim was that the Health Week Glow Group would build anticipation of the event, stimulate activities and discussions, and encourage reflection and feedback afterwards

Visit this cookbook to find out:

• How the Glow group was created & customised 
• How to replicate some of the key features

September 14th, 2010

Get involved with SLF Extra!

Gail Cairns

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 : Categories Events, Glow Groups, Glow Meet

The Scottish Learning Festival 2010 is just 8 days away! The National SLF Extra Glow group, has been launched to extend both the life and the reach of this year’s festival, delivering many of the highlights straight to your desktop via Glow.

Watch live streaming of the 2010 keynote speeches from the Clyde Auditorium, as well as live footage from four fantastic seminars via Glow meet. Sign up to the Glow meets and watch an expert panel discuss the seminars and answer your questions at the end of the session. Details of these Glow meets can be found in the Glow Live area of SLF Extra

SLF Extra keeps you up-to-date as our Glow reporters cover various areas of the festival and communicate regular feeds from bloggers, tweeters and budding photographers who will keep you updated through Flickr.