Glow Scotland

June 12th, 2009

Bob’s Google map Glow Project

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Comments: Comments Off Tags:  : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Dundee City, Glow Groups, Uncategorized, google maps

Bob Hill’s Glow project is all about collaboration in Glow. It is a great project because Bob aims to involve teachers from all over Scotland in a practical project about our favourite subject, the weather.

Bob works out of Dundee and is in ICT Support for DCC Educational Services. He is promoting the use of Google maps to share information about the weather in Scotland. By asking teachers and pupils to capture local information about the weather and put it in a shared google map which can be found in a National Glow group Weather with Google Maps Glow group.

If you are a teacher Primary or Secondary and not least ateacher of Geography you should get involved. If I was teaching about the Weather, Enquiry Skills (eg S1) or Google maps after the summer holidays, I would seriously consider getting my class to contribute to Bob’s glow group and share my local information with schools across the country. It would be great to view more local weather in Bob’s Google map. full instructions on how to do this are in the Glow group.You can ask him about his Glow group in the Discussions page of Weather and Google Maps or @robthill in Twitter.

You can find Bob’s Glow group in the National Site in the Collaborative Projects National Glow group.

Bob, good luck with a great Glow idea.