Glow Scotland

July 6th, 2010

Internet Safety and Responsible Use

Alan Hamilton

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow Groups, Glow Learn, National Groups, Pupils

Learning and Teaching Scotland is committed to providing information to teachers, parents and young people on all aspects surrounding Internet Safety and Responsible Use.

A new National Glow group, focussing on Internet Safety and Responsible Use, has been created.

The group contains a mix of resources and ideas for teachers, pupils and parents surrounding the many areas of Internet Safety and Responsible Use – some of these areas include: cyberbullying; online fraud; viruses; social networking; digital footprints; social skills and netiquette.

The group was created as a result of the Scottish Government’s Child Internet Safety Action Plan and will support the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence.

In addition to the group, where you can find out more information as well as take part in discussions with other teachers, we have launched a new news service and resources section, built using the new Glow blogs.

Teachers are encouraged to join us in uploading resources that are successfully used  in the classroom, in the hope that other teachers can benefit.

June 5th, 2009

Calling All Teachers!

Lesley Dickson

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow Groups, National Groups

Two very successful Glow events have recently taken place at Stirling Management Centre. These ‘Building Glow Communities’ events focused on getting English Teachers and Primary 4-7 teachers respectively to work together to create Glow groups to support learning and teaching.

These groups will be used by the teachers who created them to share ideas and resources and to allow collaborative activities between their pupils. The groups are also open to all teachers and pupils nationally so that they can follow what’s going on.

Teachers can apply to join the groups with their own classes and take part in the activities.

You can find the P4/7 groups created by the participants under National Groups/Building Glow Communities. Groups include ‘The Victorians’, World War 2, Scotland and European Tour Guide Mission. The English Teacher groups at are at National Groups/Literacy and English/Building Glow Communities and include Transition P7/S1, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and War Poetry.

If you have any problems viewing or applying to join the groups please contact Lesley Dickson at l.dickson@ltscotland.org.uk

We are still taking applications for the next events for early years, maths, the expressive arts, science and social studies. Visit Glow Scotland to apply for a place.

Please note that while the emphasis of the events is very much on sharing and collaboration it would be useful for applicants to have some previous experience of creating Glow groups.

If you would like an event held for your subject area or sector please register your interest with Glow Administration.

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!

February 10th, 2009

Sharing Glow groups

mbrown

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 : Categories Glow Groups, Local authorities

We are each others best and most under used resource.

On our travels up and down the country we (the Glow team) continue to be thrilled at the innovative and creative ways that staff and pupils are engaging with Glow. We realise too, that having the opportunity to see how others are using Glow can be a valuable experience. With that in mind, the Glow team has created a national Glow Group that allows for this sharing of good and interesting practice. So if you are in Aberdeenshire or Argyll, East Dunbartonshire or East Lothian you can now view Glow groups from all over the country. There is a catch of course – in order to join in and share this wealth of good ideas somebody has to take the initiative and post up their group for sharing. So if you are reading this Blog then that would be YOU!

The process is straightforward and to lead you through it we have uploaded a short guide into the Glowing Potential national group. It’s in this national group that we are encouraging you to allow others to take a peek at what you have been doing. We ‘d love to see groups shared from a variety of levels- classroom groups, school groups, local authority groups. The guide provides simple advice on how to allow others into your group with limited permissions. So if like me, you are particularly nosey and like to know what’s going on this could provide an excellent opportunity for the sharing of ideas and resources on a national scale.

But what if my Glow group isn’t as good as some others that I have seen? Don’t worry! We absolutely understand that Glow groups are constantly evolving and will always be ‘works in progress’ Don’t let this put you off. The more the merrier and as we build upon the each others ideas so we evolve or own practice. If altruism isn’t enough of a worthy incentive then to further encourage those a little more reticent we have decided to award some prizes for the ‘best’ Glow group of the month as voted (X factor style) by you. So if you’d like to win a Glow team member in your school for a week and other equally exciting stuff then you have to be in it to win it.

Go on and do it now. National Site – Glowing Potential glow Group - Sharing Groups tab. See you in there.