Glow Scotland

April 30th, 2010

Co-Create Logo Design Challenge

Julia Fenby

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On Wednesday 9 June, 12 – 1pm, designer Tony Dunworth from Graphical House will give a presentation on logo design targeted at senior secondary pupils. He will be speaking about the principles of design, particularly focusing on the role of the designer:

- Responding to a set of criteria set out in a brief;
- Asking questions/carrying out research (how and where will the design be used; key message; future applications)
- Creating design solutions

Tony will show examples of logo designs and will set a competition brief for pupils to design a logo for the Co-Create project.

Pupils will be invited to submit designs in time for a follow up Glow Meet on 15 September at which Tony will discuss some of the best entries and select the winner. A number of designs will be selected for use as banner logos for the Co-Create Glow Group and will be featured on the Glow Scotland website. The creator of the winning design will receive a flip video camera.

The competition brief and film of Tony’s presentation will be available on Glow after the event.

Sign up for the June 9 Glow Meet on the Co-Create Glow Group:
http://bit.ly/logochallenge

For more information on Graphical House, visit their website: http://www.graphicalhouse.co.uk/

Co-Create is funded through a partnership between Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund.

April 30th, 2010

Winner of the Netbook announced

Lorna Arbuckle

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The National Glow team have been gathering information to show the impact of using Glow and ways in which it can be improved, creating a simple online survey for you to complete to be in with a chance of winning a Netbook.

We are delighted to announce the winner of this competition is Alison Butcher from Rosehearty in Aberdeenshire.

Runners up, who won a Kodak Flip Camera, are Des Nelson from Bathgate Academy in West Lothian and Kathleen MacDonald from the Nicholson Institute.

Congratulations to our winner and runners up and to all those who took part in the online survey.

April 30th, 2010

Co-Create Projects

Julia Fenby

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Throughout 2010 and into 2011, ten of Scotland’s leading arts organisations are working together with teachers, pupils and a range of partners to develop new approaches to teaching and learning using Glow. The projects span the art forms, target a range of levels, user groups and curriculum areas, and involve 18 Local Authorities across Scotland. They will demonstrate how the arts and Glow support delivery of Curriculum for Excellence.

There will be regular updates on each of the projects on the Glow Scotland blog. Here is a flavour of some of the activity that is taking place:

Imaginate (above right) is working with primary pupils and teachers in Shetland, East Renfrewshire and Dumfries & Galloway, and media company Screen Media, to develop and pilot an interactive online learning tool to support children in assessing and evaluating live performance.

Perth and Kinross schools, together with Plan B Collective and Horsecross Arts are exploring how creativity can support the transition stages. In the ‘Hooks + Bites’ project, participants will create digital art and sound works for an art bank on Glow.

Schools in Glasgow, Dundee, Stirling and East Renfrewshire have been invited by NVA to join its ‘Double Rubble Chip Challenge’ as part of ‘Sow and Grow Everywhere’. Pupils will be using Glow to explore the social, cultural and political aspects of food production and growing food locally.

In Taigh Chearsabhagh’s project ‘Walking within | Langass Wood’, an art trail will be created by artist and publisher Alec Finlay and poet Colin Wills. S2 pupils will work with them and other partners, including Scottish Natural Heritage, to create a letterbox walk for the woodland and an accompanying digital guide on handheld mobile devices.

Visible Fictions Theatre Company is working in collaboration with teachers in seven secondary schools across seven authorities, to develop ideas for webisodes (online dramas) and ‘live’ broadcasts from an online fictional country. ‘State of Emergency’, culminates in an intensive week of activity in November when S2 year groups will engage with actors-in-role, exploring dilemmas and themes connected with war.

Y Dance is working with teachers and pupils in Dumfries & Galloway, Inverclyde and East Dunbartonshire to create resources to support teaching and learning in Higher Dance. Their first Glow Meet today will bring pupils together to share their dance compositions in a Festival of Choreography.

More news on these and other Co-Create projects to follow. Watch out for Co-Create presentations at Scottish Learning Festival 2010.

Find out more on the Co-Create Glow Group and on Glow Scotland http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/sharingpractice/cocreate.asp

Co-Create is funded through a partnership between Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund.

April 29th, 2010

Glow 101 - a very good place to start

Katie Barrowman

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Glow 101 will be a series of online seminars - Webinars - to help you get started with Glow. There are intitially two sessions planned, and you can choose to join either or both.

Session 1 - Wednesday 12th May 2010, 16:00 - 16:45

This will cover the basics of navigating Glow, including exploring your school site, your local authority site, your My Glow area and My Glow Groups list, and the National Glow site.

Session 2 - Wednesday 19th May 2010, 16:00 - 16:45

This will cover the basics of creating a Glow Group, including how to make a group, how to populate the basic group, and how to add members to it.

Both of these will take place in Glow Meet - click this link to go to the Glow 101 page and sign up for session 1 - it’ll take you to the Glow log in page, and then straight to the online venue.

April 29th, 2010

Dr Bunhead Returns!

Katie Barrowman

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Dr Bunhead returns to Glow with Spoof busters to explore with you the skills you need to find out whether ‘science’ videos on sharing sites like You tube are hoaxing you or not.

Come with your thoughts on whether mobile phones can pop popcorn. What do you think about myths like humans swallowing spiders? Investigate conductivity in your classroom and share your results. Find out the winner of the ‘spoof science videos competition’. If you weren’t at the last meet you can still join in.

The event is on June the 2nd, from 2pm - 3pm approximately. Click here to visit the Glow Group and sign up!

April 28th, 2010

Account and Services Manager Support through Glow

Lorna Arbuckle

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Glow has launched an online training facility for all Account and Services Manager’s (ASM’s) across Scotland. Sessions are delivered as workshops and drop-in’s whereby administrators can access the training Glow Group and participate in sessions delivered by a Glow technical consultant.

Sessions currently occur between 2pm-3pm each Wednesday in the ASM Support Glow Group but we are looking at other time slots to accommodate all ASM’s . Initial sessions that have been run so far are ‘ASM for Beginners’ and ‘Identity Matching’. All local authority and school ASM’s are welcome to join in via Glow Meet. – We will be using additional services in the near future.
Other sessions we are going to deliver are

• Services and Policies Overview
• End of Year workshop
• Understanding CSV files
• In-depth Glow Mail Administration
• Account Approval and Generation
• ASM troubleshooting tips

Any particular questions outwith the sessions can be posted in the ASM Discussion Forum within the Glow Group as well as other topics that you may like to be covered at later sessions. The group itself will be kept up to date with any up and coming sessions.

To find out more, visit the ASM support Glow Group.

April 28th, 2010

Glowing Cookbook: Teacher stranded abroad? No problem - use Glow!

Lorna Arbuckle

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Many schools have been hit with staff absence due to the flight suspensions caused by the Volcanic ash situation. Teachers – and pupils – have been stranded abroad at the start of the new school term. In this Cookbook we find out how one teacher found that she could still provide learning activities for her class though, despite being stuck in Portugal.

Bernadette Cassidy teaches Primary 5 at St Mary’s Primary school in Bannockburn, Stirling.
When she discovered she would not be able to return in time for the start of term, she realised that she could still provide support for her class and let them know which activities they should be doing, by using the class’s Glow Group.

From Portugal, Bernadette logged on to Glow and used the ‘News’ web part to let the pupils know that she would not be able to return for a few days.She then added a new page to the Primary 5 Glow Group. The page is called ‘Classwork week 19th April’.

Bernadette has embraced the flight situation to provide meaningful literacy activities for the pupils. As a Talking and Listening exercise, the pupils have been asked, through instructions in the text editor web part to:

“Imagine you are on your way home after your holidays but when you get to the airport you find out your flight is cancelled. Now you have very little money left in your wallet and nowhere to stay. Discuss with your partner what you would do in this situation. Write a helpful list of advice.”

Following on from this, the pupils have been given a writing activity, where they are required to write a letter of complaint to the airline:

“Once you have arrived home after a 2 day delay from your cancelled flight, you decide to write a letter of complaint to the airline.You need to introduce yourself in your letter, explain why your flight was cancelled, what you had to do to get accommodation and food for two days and how you feel about the situation.Remember, this should be a formal letter so you need to include the correct layout and format as well as the correct formal language in your letter.”

These activities really embrace the Curriculum for Excellence principle of Relevance. You can find out more by visiting the Glow Cookbooks.

April 26th, 2010

Too Hot to Handle!

Katie Barrowman

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Too Hot To Handle supports the Topical Science organiser of a Curriculum for Excellence from P6-S3. It provides access to current scientists in Scotland that work on a range of hot topics through a vidcast, teaching materials and a discussion board for questions about the topics that are answered by the scientists, and a GLOW meet where you can grill the scientists with questions. Below are details of 4 glow meets which will take part this term. Hope to see you there.

Flu Fighters – Thursday 20 May 2pm till 3pm

Join schools across Scotland and meet the flu fighters from The Universities of Glasgow, St Andrews and Edinburgh. You’ll get a chance to try and ‘sock the scientists’ by quizzing them about what flu is, the microorganism that causes it and how your body defends against this icky invader. Also have fun joining in the ‘over to you’ activities and questions and find out what all the other schools think. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Biodiversity Buzz – Thursday 27th May 2pm till 3pm

At the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scientists will be waiting to answer your questions live in this the International Year of Biodiversity. Can you catch them out during ‘sock the scientist’? Or answer the ‘over to you’ questions in time? Amaze whilst you see the answers coming through from schools around Scotland and be ready to be surprised at the sounds limpets make munching…

Doable Renewables – 15th June 2pm till 3pm

Whether you think wind, wave or bio is the future, this meet will give you the chance to find out what the scientists really think and to share your ideas with schools all over
Scotland. Will you be the one to ‘sock the scientist’ with your tricky question or will it be your class that comes up with the best answers to the ‘over to you’ questions? Find out by joining us at the Glow Meet!

Teen Brain – 17th June 2pm till 3pm

Will your brain be the same today and tomorrow, as it was yesterday? Are teen brains different to adult brains? Join current scientists and find out the answers to these questions and discover how pictures of the brain are giving scientists a lot more information about who you are than you may think… You’ll also get the chance to take part in ‘over to you’ questions where you’ll be able to share your thoughts on who should find out about your brain picture and see how it compares to classes all over Scotland. Don’t forget your brain!

You can find out more from the Glow Meets page in the Sciences Glow Group, and from the Too Hot to Handle Glow Group.

April 22nd, 2010

Revamped Outdoor Learning Glow Group now open

ronnierankin

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The new look Outdoor Learning Glow Group is now open.

Within you will find content which mirrors the new Outdoor Learning LTS website.

It also contains many forums to get involved with.

Interested in Outdoor Learning, then come on in and have a look around!

Find the Group here: http://tinyurl.com/la33oz

April 21st, 2010

Catherine Forde Glow Meet postponed.

Katie Barrowman

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We’re sorry to say that the Catherine Forde Glow Meet with the Scottish Book Trust, scheduled for Monday the 26th of April, will have to be postponed. Like many others, Catherine is trapped abroad due to the volcanic ash cloud and we cannot guarantee that she will be available on Monday. Please watch this space for details of the new date.

Thanks, and Sorry for any inconvenience caused.