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February 28th, 2010

The Chemical Industry - Glow Meet, 18th March

J Jelly

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Higher Chemistry pupils need to know about the Chemical Industry.
Unit 3, part a, is all about the Chemical Industry.
Other chemistry classes will want to hear about career prospects.

Chemical Engineers, Gavin Smith and Gordon Hardie, will be covering this Higher Chemistry topic, and giving a flavour of the life and rewards of a chemical engineer on Thursday, 18th March at 13.45 in a Glow Meet in the National Sciences Glow Group. Last year, 8 schools took part in the live Glow Meet. Many more are able to take advantage of this Glow Meet opportunity this year. Make sure your pupils can benefit! If you are not familiar with using Glow Meet, click here.

A career in the chemical industry is exciting and well-rewarded, but both the study required, and the job itself, can be hard work and dangerous. Listen to Gavin, who has decades of experience, and Gordon, a recent graduate recruit, retell their experiences. Kincorth Academy, Aberdeen, is hosting the event, so pupils there will be able to ask Gavin and Gordon questions directly, but classes from around the country will also be able to see and hear the engineers, and ask questions of them via Glow Meet’s tools. Ask them questions about the chemistry, and their jobs.

If you think you will be able to bring your pupils into the Glow Meet, leave a note in the National Sciences Glow Group.

What pupils need to know:

• The UK chemical industry is a major contributor to both the quality of our life and our national economy.
• Stages in the manufacture of a new product can include research, pilot study, scaling-up, production and review.
• A chemical manufacturing process usually involves a sequence of steps.
• A feedstock is a reactant from which other chemicals can be extracted or synthesised.
• The major raw materials in the chemical industry are fossil fuels, metallic ores and minerals, air and water.
• Chemical manufacturing may be organised as a batch or as a continuous process.
• Process conditions are chosen to maximise economic efficiency.
• Manufacturing costs include capital costs, fixed costs and variable costs.
• The UK chemical industry is, by and large, capital rather than labour intensive.
• Safety and environmental issues are of major importance to the chemical industry.
• Both historical and practical factors affect the location of chemical industries.
• The efficient use of energy is significant in most chemical processes.
• Factors influencing the choice of a particular route include cost, availability and suitability of feedstock(s), yield of product(s), opportunities for the recycling of reactants and marketability of by-products.

February 25th, 2010

February’s Maths Puzzle

ronnierankin

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This Month’s Puzzle has now been added to the Glow Group, just in the nick of time!

You can access the Group with your username and password by using the link http://tinyurl.com/ycv5xmn

Be warned though, the last one’s a right wee stinker!

February 25th, 2010

Take part in World Book Day live on Glow next week

Lorna Arbuckle

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The Scottish Book Trust are celebrating World Book Day on the 4th March with two events; one for primary and one for secondary, with the hilarious children’s poet Michael Rosen.

Michael will be telling stories from his childhood as well as performing a selection of his catchy and funny poems and you can watch the events by signing up for the live stream through Glow Meet.

The event is being streamed live on the National Books Trust Online and is produced and edited by the BBC.

The details are as follows:

P3-P7 session (Curriculum for Excellence Levels First and Second): 10.30am
S1-S3 session (Curriculum for Excellence Levels Third and Fourth): 2.00pm

If you would like to take part,visit the World Book Day Glow Group for more details.

February 25th, 2010

Here’s your chance to win an iPod by 31st March!

Lorna Arbuckle

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Are you a practitioner? Do you want to win an iPod? If the answer is YES then we want to know how you are using Glow. Perhaps you have shared materials, ideas or practice with your colleagues. You may have set tasks for pupils to complete through Glow or joined in a National Glow Meet providing a focus for your topic.

It doesn’t matter how often you’ve used Glow or what you use it for, we’re keen to hear how it’s helping you and the young people you work with.

For the chance to win an iPod, please complete our online questionnaire before March 31st 2010. If you have completed the survey since the Scottish Learning Festival in September 2009, you too are in with a chance of winning the prize.

The survey sits in Glow so you’ll need your user name and password to take part and is open to all teaching and non-teaching Practitioners only. Start the Online Questionnaire here.

February 22nd, 2010

Spring into a fresher Glow Mail

Lorna Arbuckle

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In March, we will be updating Glow Mail with a new refreshed interface. The exact date will be confirmed at least 2 weeks before the go-live date.

We would like to prepare you for this change to Glow Mail to ensure a smooth transition for all Glow users. We have created a Glow Group which we are populating with content now and will continue to do so). This Glow group is open to all and can be found at this link

To help you understand how the new Glow Mail will work you will see videos and FAQs in the Glow group along with the ability to ask your own questions. This change will affect only the cosmetic side of Glow, no data will be lost such as folders or mails.

If you have any specific concerns or want to know more then either post a question on this group or email [email protected]

February 20th, 2010

“Teachers need to stop saying ‘hand it in’ and start saying ‘publish it’” - Alan November

Tina Stevens

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On 18th February David Terron from Elgin Academy delivered a masterclass session to teachers across the country that was packed full of ideas for allowing a class to ‘publish’ their work.

During his session David showcased the range of work that he and his classes are doing with WIKIs and blogs, from simple ideas like homework reminders, through model essays and intense drama analysis to a poetry WIKI which has been so successful it now gets requests from other schools for poems they would like to see included!

David then went on to link this work to Curriculum for Excellence, assessment and Skills4Life before explaining how WIKIs can also be used for planning all kinds of activities -in his case TeachMeet Highlands. The session was so packed with great ideas that one of the participants posted “That was fantastic but I need time to take it all in!”

To read David’s own account of delivering the session click HERE to access his blog.

All of the resources discussed in this masterclass can now be accessed through the English Teachers National Glow group and a recording of the session will also be available soon.

Every month a masterclass like this one is delivered FREE through the English Teachers’ National Glow group. The sessions cover a variety of areas but all have an English/Literacy focus. Click HERE to request membership.

Another fantastic masterclass will be available to join in March. Keep checking Glowscotland for further details.

February 18th, 2010

Meet us next Thursday and Glow

Lorna Arbuckle

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Our next Glowing Thursday is a Glow Meet about Moving Image Educaton (M.I.E) on Thursday 25th February.

Moving Image Education (M.I.E.) is an alternative pedagogy being developed across various authorities within Scotland. Dovetailing nicely with the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence, it provides a powerful tool for teachers to enhance their learning and teaching.

Making use of film texts encourages discussion, provides a framework to support writing, engages disengaged learners and allows learners to move awayfrom being passive participants within classes to being active generators of their own learning. During the session time Andrew Gallagher will discuss strategies and resources to start, or develop, MIE practices within any class setting - urban or rural, straight or composite, primary or secondary … it really will work in any setting.

Join us from 4pm - 5pm that day and find out more.

February 17th, 2010

ICT Excellence Awards – now open for entries!

Lorna Arbuckle

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Is your school or organisation making a huge difference with technology? Is ICT transforming the way that learners learn, parents communicate and staff work? If so, then Becta wants to hear from you!

Now entering their fifth year, Becta’s ICT Excellence Awards provide a great opportunity to not only celebrate the amazing work of schools, local authorities and other supporting organisations but to share the experiences of those at the forefront of the use of technology in learning.

If you want to share your story or that of a school or organisation that you know, the ICT Excellence Awards 2010 are now open for entries. For more information on the categories and criteria, and to access the online entry forms, go to www.becta.org.uk/excellenceawards. The deadline for entries is 24 March 2010.

February 17th, 2010

Building Glow Communities - sign up here

Lorna Arbuckle

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We are pleased to announce that we will be running three more Building Glow Communities events at Stirling Management Centre in May.

This batch of events will be for Technologies, Additional Support Needs and Expressive Arts.

As before, practitioners will work in small groups to create Glow Groups in which they and their pupils can collaborate over the coming months. The groups created will be made visible to all teachers and pupils nationally to act as examples of good practice. This will be a unique opportunity to work alongside colleagues from across the country to share ideas, experiences and resources.

Applicants must have a Glow account and should have some experience of creating Glow Groups.

To apply for the event, please visit the Building Glow Communities Glow Group and fill in the form with your details.

Technologies 4-5 May
Additional Support Needs 17-18 May
Expressive Arts 25-26 May

February 16th, 2010

Hurry - only a few short weeks to nominate for this year’s Scottish Education Awards

Lorna Arbuckle

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There are only a few weeks left until nominations close for this year’s Scottish Education Awards. Does your school deserve an award? Get your nominations in by Friday 5 March for a school, a teacher or a member of staff you think deserves to be recognised.

Michael Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong learning said “I hope schools, parents, pupils and teachers across Scotland will be inspired to think about what they’re doing that could be a good example to others. So if you think your school has got the “x factor” get online and nominate your school for the Scottish Education Awards.”

Entry to the Awards is open to all publicly funded schools, including secondary, primary, nursery and special schools across Scotland in 15 categories including Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and Numeracy across Learning, Sustainable Schools and Teacher of the Year. Nominations are open until Friday 5 March 2010.

For further information and to nominate visit the Scottish Government Glow Group.