Glow Scotland

September 1st, 2011

SLF Extra launched today

pcurrie

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Moving Image Education, Technologies

With only three weeks to go until the event itself, SLF Extra has been launched today, via the National Site in Glow. The Glow group has been designed with Glow users from all over Scotland in mind, not just those who are able to attend the festival.

Glow TV will aim to bring you as much content as we possibly can, with all keynote speeches streamed live through Glow and sign-ups and links available through the GlowTV schedule. Glow TV will also present a number of ‘Best of SLF’ broadcasts from our temporary studio at the SECC, where we aim to capture the key discussion topics from the Keynote speeches and allow Glow users to take part (through the Glow meet chat pod) in our studio discussion with our panel in Glasgow.

If you cannot take part live at the time of broadcast, there is, of course, the ‘Watch Again’ facility in Glow TV, where all broadcasts will be available after the event. SLF Extra also has a discussion forum, with a number of topics already raised to invite Glow users to engage in discussions that SLF raises. In addition to that, the Glow team will be armed with video cameras and audio recording devices to capture as much content as we can and have a festival team lined up to get that content to you through SLF Extra on Glow.

We will blog and we will tweet and, though we will probably end up with sore feet, we will make sure we bring Glow users as much of SLF as we can. SLF Extra is where you go to find it.

October 24th, 2008

Glowing at the Orkney Learning Festival

Katie Barrowman

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 : Categories Events, Local authorities, Orkney Islands

Thursday and Friday of this week brought the annual Orkney Learning Festival. This astounding feat of organisation saw every teacher in the islands attend for at least one, and in many case two, full day’s access to a wealth of CPD, including some absolutely top class seminars.

Held in Kirkwall Grammar school, the packed programme gave each teacher a wide choice of activity addressing every educational niche. These ranged from full day Learning Outdoors events, to ninety minute seminars and a walk around the small but select group of exhibitors in the exhibition hall, including but not limited to EIS learning representatives, SCRAN, Curriculum for Excellence and Glow.

The quality of presentations on offer would rival a national conference, and I’m glad to say Glow was well represented here too. Marie Dougan delivered a Glow Keynote Speech each day, updating attendees on the great work that’s happening with Glow around the country. Gerri Tait, Andrew Brown and I also held Glow based seminars, on topics including e-mentoring with Glow, Glow for Beginners, and Glow in the Primary and Secondary classrooms. Con Morris and Derek Robertson were able to give updates on and hands on access to the exciting developments in their areas (CPD and Games Based Learning respectively) both of which are represented on Glow.

Over both days, the dedication and enthusiasm of the Orkney staff was constantly evident, and the team enjoyed talking to a diverse set of visitors in the exhibition hall, including visitors from other authorities in Orkney on holiday – that’s dedication! There was a great deal of interest in Glow, and now that mentor training is complete, people are really looking forward to getting on and using Glow. The collaborative tools were a particular hit, because with many small schools across the islands the chance to work together more easily is welcomed. It will be great to keep up to date with what’s happening as the Orkney mentors get Glowing over the next few months, and the next time the Glow team visits these beautiful islands we’ll be getting into schools and seeing all the developments.