Glow Scotland

May 28th, 2012

Learning Stories - An Education Scotland Identified Good Practice Event

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: Learning Stories, Ormiston Primary
 : Categories CPD, East Lothian, Glow TV, Pupils

Join us in Glow Tv on Wednesday 30th May for an exciting insight into a new way of reporting in a school. In Ormiston Primary School every child has a journal called a Learning Story containing photographs, video links and comments from parents, children and teaching staff. These Learning Stories have become integral to the life of learning at Ormiston Primary School and have replaced the end of term report card.

These colourful and detailed books help children to share purposefully their learning with their families and helps to give the families more depth of knowledge of how they can support their child at home. They also give the school the opportunity to find out what children are learning at home which forms a rich picture of all the achievements for each child.

During this Glow Meet headteacher Helen Gardyne and her pupils will share their journey of development with their Learning Stories and this will hopefully inspire you on your own journey and to reflect on the nature of reporting on children’s learning.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV for this inspiring CPD opportunity.

May 28th, 2012

Moderation in Practice - What does it mean to you?

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: moderation
 : Categories CPD, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow TV

Join us on Tuesday 29th May at 4pm in Glow TV to find out more about what moderation can mean to you. A number of personnel from local authorities and Education Scotland will take part in an open discussion around ‘participating in moderation activities - the opportunities and challenges it presents’

During this session practitioners from across the country will share their experiences of moderation in practice. There will be practitioners from all sectors participating in this event, relating their experiences: within their own establishment or sector, across different sectors and in particular at key points of transition.

Practitioners who have participated in the Quality Assurance and Moderation exemplars on the NAR will relate their experiences. The Quality Assurance and Moderation Team in Education Scotland will give an update on work being developed at present to support the moderation process.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV.

May 24th, 2012

Copyright in Education

Dawn Adams

Comments: 1 Comment Tags: Tags: copyright, intellectual property rights, IPR
 : Categories CPD, Technologies

The subject of copyright can often be a confusing and complicated one. Whether it’s using music, video or digital images for learning and teaching it can be hard to navigate the minefield that is copyright and intellectual property rights. More and more teachers and learners know that simply copying pictures from random websites is illegal and could lead to prosecution.

In a series of blog posts we’re going to explore the topic of intellectual property rights (IPR), improve understanding of what this means in education and highlight some useful resources to provide support.

Copyright Symbols by MikeBlogs, 2008 (CC BY 2.0)

Copyright is all around us – the web, music, films, learning resources, books, games, adverts – the list goes on! Pupils and teachers may interact with music, movies, software and digital content everyday but do they understand that these works may be protected? Do they recognise how intellectual property rights affect them personally? Do you?

What are Intellectual Property Rights?
It may be an unfamiliar term but the output from an intellectual or creative effort is Intellectual Property.
Intellectual Property Rights are available to the originator/author. These rights allow for the protection of intellectual property and control its use by others.

Copyright is one of several Intellectual Property Rights but is very relevant in education. Other rights in the Intellectual Property ‘family’ are moral rights, patents, trade marks and design rights. There are also performers’ and photographers’ rights and confidentially and trade secrets.

This might seem complicated but there are several benefits of IPR and they are to:
Encourage innovation, share knowledge, protect the creator, allow work to be developed, allow commercial return and allow the work to be used in the public sphere.

For more information about IPR there are several useful sources:

NEN, Copy Rights and Wrongs, Know the Score – What is IPR?
http://copyrightsandwrongs.e2bn.org/ipr-and-copyright/what-is-ipr

NEN, Copy Rights and Wrongs, Know the Score – What is copyright?
http://copyrightsandwrongs.e2bn.org/ipr-and-copyright/what-is-copyright