Glow Scotland

July 26th, 2011

Glow TV

pcurrie

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Early Years, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow, Glow Meet, Health and Wellbeing, Learner Resources, Literacy, Local authorities, Mathematics, Moving Image Education, National Groups, Pupils, Religious and Moral Education, Sciences, Social Studies, Technologies, Uncategorized, modern languages, research

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.

June 29th, 2010

The Daily What

pcurrie

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Development, Literacy, Uncategorized

‘The Daily What’- the all new Glow schools’ news service- will be launched in August in association with our partners for the service, The Herald group and Tinopolis Interactive. In the meantime, we really need user feedback on initial designs for the news service. We are always keen to find out what Glow users think and we will try to recommend changes accordingly.

There is a working prototype (with limited functionality at this point) that will give you a good idea of page layout, content and navigation elements. Please remember that very few links will work at this stage, but you should get a good idea of how the service will look when it is launched.

The prototype can be accessed here: http://www.dailywhat.org.uk/prototype/index.html

We have created a National Glow group for the service, with a particular focus for the moment on collecting feedback. If you have time, we would very much appreciate feedback from Glow users. There are several forum posts which ask specific questions and invite voting from users.

These forum posts can be accessed individually from the main Noticeboard of the Glow group, or by going to the ‘Tell us what you think’ page. There is also an email link, if you would prefer to email your thoughts, and a document store, if you would prefer to create a document of feedback and upload it to Glow. The Glow group also contains images of the prototype page designs.

Whichever option you decide to use, we really do appreciate Glow users taking the time to share their views. Remember, if we find out what you think now, we can make changes before the August launch.

Click here to go straight to the Glow group

December 14th, 2009

Scotland’s Got Christmas Talent

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow Meet, Local authorities, National Groups, Pupils, Uncategorized

Yes the highly popular national talent event is back once again and this time it has a Christmas theme!

Why not join us on Thursday 17th December from 1.30pm – 3pm to see what fantastic talent the pupils in Scotland have to offer?

Our last event before the summer featured 15 wonderful acts with singing, comic performances, dancing and even bagpipes all showcasing within Glow. Make this event just as good by registering your interest with Jennifer McDougall - j.mcdougall@ltscotland.org.uk and taking part in this exciting event.

You don’t have to peform to join us on the day, you can be part of our audience and enjoy the event from the comfort of your own classroom. For more details go to glowhelp.me/thursdays and we hope to see you there on the day!

June 9th, 2009

First Online Debate – this Thursday!

Katie Barrowman

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 : Categories Aberdeen City, East Dunbartonshire, Events, Glow Meet

Our first online debate takes place this Thursday, the 11th of June. The Debate will come live over Glow Meet from the National Debating Group. Join the Glow Meet at 4PM to watch Bearsden Academy and Aberdeen Grammar debate the motion ‘This House Believes Now More Than Ever We Need A United Kingdom’ – this should be very interesting, and there will be a chance for virtual spectators to ask questions after the speeches.

Click Here to request access to the group and PLEASE check that you can access Glow Meet from your location before the event to avoid disappointment!

June 1st, 2009

Calling all P6-7 teachers!

Andrew Brown

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 : Categories Events

Do you teach P6 or P7? Are you planning to work on World War 2, the Victorians, Scotland, favourite authors, Global Citizenship and international education, Astronomy, or even planning to work on a European Tour Guide Mission?

People always ask me what they can ‘do’ in Glow, or where they can find ‘resources’ or ‘people’ to help them in their work. To help this, we put together a series of events that would bring people together to share ideas, plans and resources related to either stages or curricular areas. We called them ‘Building Glow Communities‘, as they’d put people in touch with others that had a common interest or area of expertise.

We had the first event a couple of weeks ago for P6-7 teachers, and you can find some of the groups created at the event linked above. Tomorrow and Wednesday will see the second event take place for teachers of English, with a number of other events planned to take place at the beginning of next session. Watch out for a blog post in the near future sharing what was created at the English teachers event!