Glow Scotland

December 22nd, 2011

The Great Climate Change Debate - Join us on Glow

Jennifer McDougall

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A series of interactive and lively Glow meets

In November this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change launched a report warning that climate change is likely to lead to more extreme weather. Within weeks of this launch, Scotland was battered by severe flooding and hurricane force winds which brought much of the country to a standstill. Is our climate already changing? What will climate change mean for Scotland? How can we respond positively and adapt to the changes ahead?

We’re inviting your school to join the great climate change debate. We’ll be bringing together a panel of scientists and experts to answer questions, spark debate and discussion and help learners navigate their way through climate fact, fiction and controversy.

* Glow meet 1: Our changing weather and climate (23rd Jan ’12)
* Glow meet 2: Climate science – evidence versus controversy (30th Jan ’12)
* Glow meet 3: Adapting to climate change (6th Feb ’12)

Each Glow meet will take place from 2pm to 3:15pm. These events are for learners in secondary schools.

Please see links below for further details about each event:

GLOW-MEET-1-Our-changing-weather-and-climate-23Jan122

GLOW-MEET-2-Climate-science-evidence-vs-controversy-30Jan12

GLOW-MEET-3-Adapting-to-climate-change-6Feb12

For resources and videos on climate change visit Weather and Climate Change, Exploring Climate Change and Climate Change on Glow.

December 21st, 2011

Panda Leaflet Competition- winners announced in new year

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We have received a huge number of entries for our Panda Leaflet competition. We have been working hard to plough through all the entries and select winners, but we are going to have to carry this task forward into the new year because there are just so many to get through.

With some schools finishing up today for the Christmas holidays and many more tomorrow (Thursday) we just won’t manage to judge the winners properly and work out who is to receive what prize.

Please be assured that we will make this a top priority during the forst week back next term and winners should receive prizes early in the new year. Thanks to all pupils who took part; we have looked at a good few of the entries and have been very impressed with the standard of your leaflets.

December 20th, 2011

Did you miss the interview with the Panda experts on GlowTV?

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If you missed GlowTV this morning then you can still catch up with our panda experts on GlowTV Watch Again.

Watch Again - click here

Our expert panel comprised of Alison the Team Leader of Carnivores, who has responsibility for the care of pandas at the zoo, alongside their Chinese keeper, Scott who is here for a few weeks to help them settle in. We also had Prof Tang the Chinese vet who is also over here for a few weeks keeping an eye on the pandas with the zoo team.

December 20th, 2011

Glovember Update - Glow Book Month Competition

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Due to the overwhelming response we’ve had with schools uploading their fantastic entries to the Glovember Writing Competition, it will take all of the run-up to Christmas for us and our guest authors to be judging these.

We will shortly be letting you know the date in January when the winners of each age category will be announced and have their story read live on Glow by one of our guest authors. This session will be held in a school with the other winners schools participating.

The winners and runners-up will then have their stories published in an eBook, illustrated with the winning illustration and available in the Glovember Glow Group.

December 16th, 2011

Glow Does Panto! - Mister Merlin

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Expressive Arts, Glasgow City, Glow, Glow Meet

Join the Tron Theatre Glasgow Panto characters for a live Glow Meet.

Mister Merlin’s magic is mince if he doesn’t have his wand – a family heirloom handed down through many Merlin generations. The Great Bahooky’s magic has always been mince – so stealing Mister Merlin’s wand, helped (or is it hindered?) by his side-kick Bumble, is part of his cunning plan for wizard world domination.

What he didn’t bank on was Merlin having a guardian angel, in the guise of The Govan Fairy; or two plucky puppet pals Peter and Penny prepared to brave Clabber Castle’s haunted garden to get the wand back.

You will be able to meet the cast, ask them questions and find out all about the magic of Mister Merlin. -
Sign up now and join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 21st December from 1.45 - 2.30pm.

December 16th, 2011

您好 大熊猫– Nín hǎo Dà xióngmāo - Hello Giant Pandas!

Jennifer McDougall

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Having arrived safely at Edinburgh Zoo on 4th December the Giant Pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang (or as we know them Sweetie and Sunshine) are now ready to face their public! Having been lucky enough to see them last week I can tell you Yang Guang is already a media star - Tian Tian is still a bit shy though!

The enclosure will be opened to the public today (Friday 16th December) and we will be broadcasting live from the zoo the following Tuesday (20th December from 9.30 - 10.30am) live with the experts who have been looking after the pandas and with exclusive footage of them settling in to their new home.

Our expert panel comprises of Alison the Team Leader of Carnivores, who has responsibility for the care of pandas at the zoo, alongside their Chinese keeper, Scott who is here for a few weeks to help them settle in. We also hope to involve Prof Tang the Chinese vet who is also over here for a few weeks keeping an eye on the pandas with the zoo team.

So why not join us on the day and find out more out our exciting new Scottish residents?! - Sign up today in Glow TV.

December 15th, 2011

Meet Santa through GlowTV - Monday 19th of December @2pm

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The Santa Glow Meet is back again for another year. This time, our good friend Santa will be coming to Glow users live from the infant department at Fallin Primary near Stirling and he will be answering your questions live through Glow TV. This was a hugely popular and successful event last year and Santa got lots of tricky questions from Glow viewers, as well as those in the school.

Sign up, prepare some questions and get ready to see Santa LIVE through Glow.

Find out more here

December 13th, 2011

On your marks, get set, Glow!

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Josef Fuchs teaches PE at St Ninian’s High School in East Renfrewshire. He was keen to learn how Glow could be used to support the activities pupils take part in in PE. After some exploration of the possibilities, he hit upon the idea of using a Custom List to record pupils’ fitness test results.

The PE Department in St Ninan’s has had a Glow Group for some time, but Josef was looking for new ways to use Glow to support the work of the Department and to benefit the pupils.

He wanted pupils to be able to record the results from their fitness tests and update them after a period of time to track progress. He also wanted staff to be able to analyse the results by looking at, for example, all the results for one class or one pupil, or all the results for one particular fitness test.

Read more in the Glow Cookbook here

December 13th, 2011

Higher Computing - pupil support and pupil voice

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Last session, the Computing Department in John Ogilvie High School, South Lanarkshire, decided to create a Glow Group to host all of the resources that pupils studying Higher Computing would need access to throughout the year. Joe Kane is Head of the Business Education and Computing faculty and undertook the task of building the Group.

Joe was keen to ensure that pupils studying Higher Computing had easy access to all information and resources they would need for the course and also would have a place where they could give feedback.

He wanted to simplify the look of the Glow Group and aid pupils’ navigation around it and so decided to use a graphical interface along with hidden pages.

On the Noticeboard page of the Group, Joe deleted the default web parts from the page, added a Text Editor web part and uploaded an image to it. He then created ‘hot spots’ on the image to provide links to each of the hidden pages.

See the Glow Cookbook here

December 6th, 2011

There is still time to enter our Glovember competition

Lesley Sneddon

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Now that our amazing Glovember Author Events have finished, Education Scotland is giving you two more weeks to enter your stories, poems and illustrations for the Glovember competition.

All you have to do is go to the Glovember Glow Group within Glow, click on the competition page tab and upload your story, poem or illustration. Be sure to do this before the closing date of Friday 16 December.

Winners will be announced in January, after some of our authors have helped us with the judging.

Winning entries will be published in our eBook and read by one of the Glovember Authors.

You will need a Glow login to access this competition.