Glow Scotland

The Scottish Learning Festival is nearly here and the Glowing Lounge returns – bigger and better than before!

This year in addition to the presentations by practitioners there will also be a Showcase area where recent and forthcoming attractions will be unveiled and you will have the chance to see and use them first. Why not come in during our ‘drop in sessions’, enjoy a cake with some tea/coffee and see what’s new in Glow?

For the first time this year we will also be unveiling ‘The Brilliance Bar’ where you can come and ask questions and test out new ideas along with the Glow Development Team. The team will be on hand in the lounge over the two days of SLF to help you with any queries that you may have and pointers to help you get the most out of your experience of Glow.

If you cannot make it along you can still take part by joining the live Glow Meets that will take place during the two days of SLF. Access to these can be found via the SLF Extra Glow Group.

As you know, the National Glow team are dedicated to making Glow better, and we’ve been listening to your feedback in the National Help Glow group, and across the other National Glow groups.

One area where you’d like to see some change is in the discussion forums tool that Glow has inside it. On Friday the 25th of September, we’re hosting a special event to look at possible alterations and enhancements to the discussion forum tool that’s used inside Glow, and we’d love you to be involved! The first 20 people to say they’d like to come along to a two hour session at 11am in the Optima, 58 Robertson street Glasgow will be able to join in the discussions with the National Glow team. If you can’t make it in person, but would love to be involved, then we’ll also run the event through Glow Meet.

How do you let us know you’d like to be involved? Simply say you’d like to come along in the comments section of this blog post.

For colleagues and practicioners who haven’t received their Glow training yet, or for those who simply want to refresh their memory, the GlowScotland website offers ‘learning about Glow’ tutorials. These are a series of Flash-based activities to walk you through the many features of Glow. These tutorials are perfect for colleagues and practicioners who are stretched for time as you can take this at your own pace.  Visit; http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/whatsinglow/learningaboutglow/index.asp

At the end of September, the Glow communications bank was launched on the GlowScotland website to provide you with the tools to share with others how Glow is being used in your classroom, school, or local authority. You can access a range of resources from poster and presentation templates, to images and logos, and all the latest information on Glow for you to include in your materials. We have also provided a bank of ready-made resources you can start using straight away. These are all downloadable, free to use, and updated regularly. To find out more visit the communications resource bank (link to comms resource bank; http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/preparing/communications/index.asp