Glow Scotland

November 29th, 2011

Écoutez! Using Glow Learn to support listening practice in Modern Languages

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The Modern Languages Department in James Young High School in Livingston, West Lothian, is always looking for ways to provide pupils with innovative and interesting resources and activities that will help them develop their language skills.

Sophie Martin and Amanda Lyons have been using Glow Learn this year as a means of sharing resources with pupils.

Sophie and Amanda have created Glow Learn courses to share resources with their Advanced Higher German and Higher French classes respectively. As well as using Glow Learn, they also created a Glow Group for each class. You can find out more about the Glow Groups in the following cookbooks:

To find out more read 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

September 20th, 2011

Glowing across the curriculum at Glenwood High School

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In this Glow cookbook find out how a number of staff, from different departments, have been using Glow to enhance learning and teaching. The video clips and Glow Group tours show the work that has been undertaken, the pupils’ responses and the lesson learned. Additional cookbooks focus on each teacher in turn, and provide the detail of how you can replicate (or adapt) their ideas.

The use of Glow at Glenwood has grown very rapidly over just a few months – thanks to the hard work of teaching staff and to those responsible for creating the accounts. Glow is becoming well embedded in the curriculum: it’s not viewed as an adjunct, but a tool to be used, when appropriate, to enhance learning and teaching.

In the new academic year, each department has been asked to have a Glow representative and for Glow to be included in development plans.

Read more here

September 15th, 2011

Daily Quote - Using Glow to support Standard Grade English

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” User friendly Glow learn is an area I will definitely make more use of in the future”

Judith Weston, teacher of English at Earlston High School, Scottish Borders

Find out more by visiting the Glow Cookbook here

July 25th, 2011

New Glow Cookbook - Spanish Resources in Glow Learn

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There is now a large amount of Spanish content available on Glow Learn. With around 150 Sonica Spanish activities available this resource is relevant to both primary and secondary pupils. The content is particularly suited to second and third levels.

The different activities are located in two places within Glow learn – both in the Resources Tab and the Courses Tab. Where you access the activities from will impact on how you can use them and where or not pupils will have access.

To find out more about these exciting activities visit the Glow cookbook

July 7th, 2011

New Cookbook available

Lesley Sneddon

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A large amount of new maths content has been added to Glow Learn. This content comes in the form of Maths Alive Games and Maths Alive Videos and is suitable for both Primary and Secondary pupils, containing nearly 200 activities from first to fourth levels.

In Part 1 of this cookbook, we look at how the resources can be accessed and used. In Part 2, we’ll learn how one school has been using the games and videos with pupils.

Click here to have a look.

September 10th, 2010

Glowing Cookbook - Developing confident and independent learners

Gail Cairns

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Lisa Chalmers is a Support for Learning teacher at Arbroath High School. Lisa was keen to explore how Glow could enrich learning for a small group of S1 pupils who need additional support with English, Maths and Social Skills.
Glow was introduced at Arbroath High School just a few years ago and is now used widely throughout the school. Last year, a very successful Transition Glow Group linked the school with its associate primaries: this work is featured in the cookbook Transition Glow Groups in Angus schools.

Lisa felt that Glow was the perfect tool for her S1 Social Skills class. This small group of pupils required additional support to consolidate basic skills in English and Maths. Individual needs range from a pupil who had recently arrived in Scotland and required time developing her skills in English as a second language, to pupils with poor reading skills or mild dyslexia.

Many of the pupils also required time and support to develop independent learning skills, such as developing confidence in their own ability, taking responsibility for their learning, staying on task, and interacting and supporting their peers.

With such a diversity of abilities and needs, it was often impractical to teach pupils together as a class. Lisa aimed to find time and space in each session to work in a focused way with one or two pupils at a time. This required providing pupils with the skills to work unaided and remain focused.

As Lisa has access to 4 computers in her room, she was able to rotate pupils around a number of activities, including using Glow.

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September 1st, 2010

Glowing cookbook - Supporting an interdisciplinary project using Glow & Glow Learn

Gail Cairns

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The English department at Carluke High School in South Lanarkshire has used Glow extensively over the last couple of years, with topics ranging from novel studies in S2 through to creative writing assignments at Higher.
Last autumn the English department worked in collaboration with other departments on a ‘Scottish Heritage’ project. In this cookbook English teacher Barry Wright describes how Glow was used to support this interdisciplinary project.

The Scottish Heritage Project encompassed all S1 pupils and staff from the English, History and Computing departments. The project’s aims were:

• Developing pupils’ understanding and appreciation of their local heritage
• Encouraging pupils to make connections between different areas of learning
• Building pupils’ skills in working independently
• Developing pupils’ skills in working in partnership and in teams

The project explored a number of different themes of Scottish heritage, including music and arts, local industry and famous buildings.

Visit this cookbook to find out how Barry created a ’Scottish Heritage’ Glow Group and then sub-Groups for each of the different themes. All S1 pupils and the staff involved in the project were given membership of each of the Groups. Each Group contained links to web sites for background reading and for research tasks, discussion boards for pupils’ questions and feedback, and assignments created in Glow Learn.

August 19th, 2010

Glowing Cookbook - Supporting Higher Geography with Glow Learn

Gail Cairns

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Emily Greenhorn teaches Geography at Jedburgh Grammar in the Scottish Borders.

Following an introduction to Glow Learn (the virtual learning environment available to Glow users), Emily was keen to capitalise on the functionality provided to produce a Glow Learn course to support the learning and teaching of her Higher Geography class outwith the classroom.

With Glow Learn, Emily was able to create a virtual course structure that matched her classroom course. She populated lesson and topic folders with digital resources such as worksheets, presentations, audio and video clips which allowed Emily’s pupils to access material anytime/anywhere.

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July 6th, 2010

Internet Safety and Responsible Use

Alan Hamilton

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow Groups, Glow Learn, National Groups, Pupils

Learning and Teaching Scotland is committed to providing information to teachers, parents and young people on all aspects surrounding Internet Safety and Responsible Use.

A new National Glow group, focussing on Internet Safety and Responsible Use, has been created.

The group contains a mix of resources and ideas for teachers, pupils and parents surrounding the many areas of Internet Safety and Responsible Use - some of these areas include: cyberbullying; online fraud; viruses; social networking; digital footprints; social skills and netiquette.

The group was created as a result of the Scottish Government’s Child Internet Safety Action Plan and will support the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence.

In addition to the group, where you can find out more information as well as take part in discussions with other teachers, we have launched a new news service and resources section, built using the new Glow blogs.

Teachers are encouraged to join us in uploading resources that are successfully used in the classroom, in the hope that other teachers can benefit.