Glow Scotland

The Scottish Arts Council and Learning and Teaching Scotland have joined forces to bring arts education online through Glow. As a result of this partnership, a new post and project have been created to explore Glow’s potential to support innovative approaches to learning and teaching through the arts.

I have recently joined the Glow Team as Development Officer (Arts) and I’m hugely excited about this project’s potential to enable artists, performers and writers and Scotland’s schools to work and learn together in ways that have never been possible before. Glow is breaking down barriers and making learning experiences and opportunities more widely accessible – the recent Anthony Horowitz and Oscar Stringer Glow Meet events and the Willie Rodger print project are just a few examples of the exciting work that is already going on via Glow.

Over the next 22 months I will be working with selected Scottish Arts Council funded arts organisations on a number of ambitious demonstration projects, to be announced later this year, which will trial new ways of learning and will show how creativity and the arts are a fantastic way of supporting Curriculum for Excellence.

The project will provide CPD opportunities for both teachers and arts practitioners to work together to develop ideas, projects and resources. I am keen to make contact with teachers, cultural co-ordinators and local arts teams who would like to be involved so please do get in touch – I’ll be delighted to hear from you.

Look out for a new national Glow Group for the project which will highlight developments and opportunities providing a focal point for all related activity and a place to collaborate and share good practice. The project will also be showcased at the Scottish Learning Festival on 23 September.

Enquiries: glowenquiries@LTScotland.org.uk

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This post and project is funded through a partnership between Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council

Session 2008-9 has drawn to a close, so what better time to look forward to next year? Holidays and relaxation may be the priorities for the next few weeks, but why not spare a few minutes to register for The Scottish Learning Festival? Seminars are filling fast, but there’s still time to pick from the extensive and impressive programme of events, including more than thirty with a Glow element. And, of course, the return of the Glowing Lounge is bound to prove popular, so if you want to get involved, make sure you register.

Watch this blog for previews of some of the fantastic Glowing seminars, more details of the Glowing Lounge programme, and information about SLF Extra, the Glow group to complement the festival, and where those who can’t attend in the flesh can become virtual delegates and share in some of the amazing practice being showcased.

The Scottish Learning Festival is the most prestigious educational event in Scotland and this year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary. Over the years the Scottish Learning Festival has gone from an event with four keynotes, 40 sessions and a small exhibition, which attracted 1200 delegates, to an event attended by over 7000 delegates, with a conference programme of over 170 sessions and an exhibition of 200 suppliers.The conference secretariat is now open for abstracts for proposed participation in SLF 2009. This is your opportunity to present at the main educational event in Scotland.The Call for Participation documents are available from the SLF website and give full details of the theme for the 2009 conference, the submission process and deadlines.Abstracts are to be submitted by Friday 30 January 2009.To ensure that we deliver a first-class conference programme, please circulate this information to any of your contacts who you feel would be interested in taking part.For more information and copies of the papers go to; www.LTScotland.org.uk/slf/aboutslf/participation.asp.