Glow Scotland

October 28th, 2011

World of Work Wednesdays is Back!!

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Career Opportunities and Pathways, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow, Glow Meet, Pupils

Yes it is back! The popular fortnightly event that focuses on career opportunities for young people across Scotland returns to Glow TV after a break.

This WoWW event focuses on Working in the Theatre. Have you ever wondered what it is like being part of the magic of the theatre? How does a production begin and who is involved in bringing it to life on the stage?

Why not join assistant directors and associate artists in the Glow TV Studio and find out more?

Sign up and join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 2nd November at the usual time 2pm.

October 28th, 2011

Shared Responsibility - Drug Misuse, Demand and Production

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Glow Meet, Health and Wellbeing, Pupils

Shared Responsibility is a Colombian Government Initiative that focuses on making individuals think about the impact of drug misuse, demand and production in communities within Colombia and abroad.

On Tuesday the 1st of November the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh will host an event co-organized with the Colombian Embassy and the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.

Professor Brigitte Baptiste, the Director of the Von Humboldt Institute that is Colombia’s largest environmental organization, will give a talk on the impact of the drugs trade on the environment and society in Colombia.

This will be followed by a group discussion in which members of the audience and external viewers can ask questions to the speaker, embassy officials, the police, biodiversity researchers and anthropologists.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV at 10am on Tuesday 1st November for this interesting Glow Meet!

October 27th, 2011

Glow Myths

ggallacher

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Every year a survey is made of all Glow users to find out what they think of Glow.

Along with many other findings in this years report, it became clear that there was a need for clarification on some elements of the functionality as Glow was perceived not to do things which it does in fact do.

We hope you find this Glow Help blog post helpful.

October 26th, 2011

Sharing Learning Intentions with pupils and parents

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Kerry Malcolm is P1-4 teacher at Fisherton Primary School. Her 09-10 class had 22 pupils. Kerry received an hour’s introductory training session from a Glow Mentor. Being quite computer literate to start off with Kerry immediately saw the potential within Glow for the pupils to enjoy using it and to expand learning in her classroom. She was keen that Glow would encourage pupils to be more involved in their own learning and help them become more independent learners. She notes that working in a multi-composite class there is always the challenge of gaining more time to work with pupils and ensuring that they are always focussed and on-task. She could see that using Glow would help achieve this.

Find out more in the cookbook here

October 24th, 2011

Using Glow to support the revision of Standard Grade Biology

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Karen Maitland is a teacher of Biology at Queensferry High School in Edinburgh. Karen is an advocate of the use of technology aimed at enhancing the learning and teaching process. In this cookbook Karen will talk us through how she uses Glow to support the learning and teaching of Standard Grade Biology.

Through the appropriate use of technology in class, Karen has aimed to enhance the experience of her pupils during their time in the Biology Department. Through various websites and podcasts, Karen looks to provide her pupils with the opportunity to access advice, information and resources out with the barriers of the traditional school day.

With the introduction of Glow to Queensferry HS, Karen was keen to investigate how best to use the tools and functionality to further enrich the learning experiences of her pupils. In this cookbook, we will hear Karen outline how she has created a Glow Group to act as a one-stop-shop revision source for her Standard Grade Biology class.

Find out more in the Cookbook here

October 21st, 2011

Using Glow to support an Authority-wide In-Service Day

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In West Lothian, one of the recent In-Service days was used to give all staff the opportunity to engage with the new plans and forthcoming arrangements for assessment. In order to ensure that all staff from every school had access to the same information and resources about this, the Local Authority decided to use Glow to support the day’s activities.

The day was planned on a cluster basis, with teachers from each Secondary and its associated Primaries working together in the Secondary school, along with staff from Nurseries, Special Schools and Outreach Teams. It began with the Director of Education and Cultural Services, Gordon Ford, speaking to every member of staff, via Glow Meet:

Read more in the Cookbook here

October 20th, 2011

Sharing Instrumental Performance Videos at St Aidan’s High School

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Alan Jenkins is a music teacher at St Aidan’s High School in North Lanarkshire. After receiving a small amount of training in school Alan could see that he wanted to make use of it. He wanted to use Glow to share instrumental performance videos with his pupils. Alan felt that pupils will have pieces of music demonstrated to them in school but then this moment is gone and it is difficult for the pupils to remember what to do. He feels this is an issue that Glow provides a solution for.

Read more in the Cookbook here

October 20th, 2011

Daily Quote - ICT@Grove Academy

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“We shared this project with other schools in the authority and also on the national site where different groups can be shared across the country. We feel this is a big part of Cfe and Glow in particular provides the ideal means for doing this. Not only can we set the standard but we can share it. Glow is an excellent vehicle for sharing good practice.”

Kenny Stewart, Principal Teacher of Computing at Grove Academy in Dundee

To find out more read the Cookbook here

October 19th, 2011

Glow Light images needed - please send us your pictures

ggallacher

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Have you been admiring the images on the Glow Light interface? If you have (or if you think they could be even better) this is your chance. You can provide the picture for Glow Light for the whole country to see. The picture might be of a well known local landmark, a local event or even a piece of pupil’s work. How you choose the image is for you to decide.

Please ensure that you put in the name of your authority, school (where appropriate) and contact details in case we need to ask you for more information.

Please upload your pictures to the Picture Library at least a week before the date it is due to go onto Glow Light. We cannot guarantee that your image will be used but we will use as many as possible.

October 19th, 2011

Daily Quote - Samba anyone? Using Glow to Support Games Based Learning

ggallacher

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“The best bit about today was meeting the people face to face after talking to them on Glow. The best project ever..Amazing, Radical, Awesome”

Pupils from Meldrum Primary in Oldmeldrumboth & Slains Primary in Ellon both Aberdeenshire

Find out more in the Cookbook here