Glow Scotland

May 16th, 2012

Education Scotland Identified Good Practice - Aboyne Academy

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Aberdeenshire, Curriculum for Excellence, Development, Events, Expressive Arts, Glow TV, Mathematics, Pupils, Religious and Moral Education, Sciences, Social Studies

The practice of inter-disciplinary learning in the Secondary context is one that is central to the underpinning ethos of Curriculum for Excellence. Schools all over Scotland are looking at ways in which this can be made as purposeful and meaningful as possible for both pupils and teachers and in that aspect Aboyne Academy is no different from any other.

Aboyne Academy’s efforts in this area were given favourable comment during a recent inspection so much so that the inspection team recommended that this practice be celebrated and shared via Glow TV.
During this Glow Meet you will be able to meet the teachers from a range of departments who have begun to collaborate in order to make inter-disciplinary learning work for them. You will see how Geography, Science and Maths, Drama and Guidance and RME and Physics have all worked together on different projects in a complementary fashion. You will be able to hear how the teachers worked together and what impact they feel such working has had on the teaching and learning at Aboyne.

Join in the Glow Meet in Glow TV on Tuesday 22nd May at 11am and get the chance to ask questions of colleagues who are are making inter-disciplinary learning work in their setting. Sign up and join us in Glow TV.

March 13th, 2012

Sustainability Event - Echt School share through GlowTV

ggallacher

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Friday March the 16th 2012 @ 10:45

Echt School, Aberdeenshire, is holding a Sustainability Event on March 16th 2012 to share and showcase the learning the children have been engaged in this term around Sustainability and Global Citizenship.

From Nursery to P7, they have been involved in setting up a wormery, looking after chickens and hatching eggs, looking at our school’s Food and Waste Footprint, finding out about making paper to make their own compostable paper bags, Fairtrade and finding out about solar energy.

Go to Glow TV to find out more - click here

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

October 5th, 2011

Daily Quote - Glow Bugs in Aberdeenshire

ggallacher

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Pupils from Meldrum Primary

“I also taught my mum so I felt quite important. I Found it fun, and it was easier to ask questions of another pupil rather than a grown up as I am quite a shy person”.

“I did homework on a powerpoint on Guy Fawkws and the teacher could see it. The majority of the class did it on Glow, and you could see the others work and get inspiration and also in discussins they would say “I like this part of your work”

Find out more about the Glow Bugs in the Cookbook here

March 27th, 2011

Glow Light Image 28.3.2011

Lesley Dickson

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The Twinning Project

The Twinning Project was devised and is being led by pupils who attend the Glow Club at Kemnay Academy in Aberdeenshire. The pupils hope that The Twinning Project will enable schools throughout Scotland to link-up and collaborate with other schools in a similar way to how cities, towns and villages in the UK twin with places in other countries.

The Twinning Project is featured on Glow Light to encourage schools across Scotland to contribute and benefit from this excellent collaborative opportunity. The Twinning Project Glow Group can be accessed via a link on the Glow National Site.

The following information was provided by the pupils at Kemnay Academy:

How to take part:

The twinning process is simple:

Step 1 - Register your school

Step 2 - Pick a school or schools to twin with

Who can you twin with?

The system has been set up so a school can have up to three twins. It is recommended that schools should consider twinning with:

· A school from their local network

· A school from their local authority

· Another Scottish school

Why should schools twin?

By signing up for The Twinning Project and linking with other schools who have done this you will be able to:

· share good practice

· share resources

· visit each other’s schools

· build relationships between schools

· encourage the use of Glow

· organise competitions between schools

· to use Glow Meet & Glow Chat

· make new friends

· share ideas

· use the new technologies to enhance learning

· encourage teachers to work together

· learn from one another

· become confident individuals, successful learners, responsible citizens and effective contributors

For more information visit the Glow group.

December 8th, 2010

Glow in the snow - Inspiring stories

Gail Cairns

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 : Categories Aberdeenshire, Dundee City, Falkirk, Fife, Glow, Glow Groups, Scottish Borders, Shetland Islands, Stirling, West Lothian

As the bad weather continues to close schools throughout Scotland, teachers all over the country have continued to use Glow to stay in touch with their class. Local authorities have been utilising Glow in a variety of ways.

In a West Lothian Primary School, teachers are using a local authority level Glow Group to support snow activities, as well as poetry competitions, snow photographs, snow science, animation and other general snow day tasks. Teachers are using the West Lothian Council Glow noticeboard to leave messages for pupils asking them to go to their class’ Glow Group to find work. West Lothian teachers are also using Glow messenger for staff meetings.

St Margarets Academy in West Lothian are using Glow for support and resources for many subjects including, Physics, Business, Biology, Administration, Geography, Maths, Chemistry, Modern Studies and Sociology. Login to Glow to visit the West Lothian - Sharing Our Learning Blog and find out more about how West Lothian teachers have been using Glow in the Snow.

Dundee also created a local authority Glow Snow Day Group where teachers can upload work for pupils. Teachers have also created simple individual groups called Snow Days allowing other members of staff to contribute work for pupils.

Other Authorities using Glow in the snow include:

• Aberdeenshire – Aberdeenshire launched the M2C Snow Glow Group. Now open nationally, this Glow Group offers a huge range of snow based online and offline activities. Other resources available in this Group include an advent calendar, weather research, art, snowmen photographs, symmetry using snowflakes, templates and instructions for creating a snow journal and guidance on measuring snow depth.

• Scottish Borders – Teachers in several departments in Hawick High School have put work up on Glow for schools.

• Shetland Islands - Burravoe Primary School in Shetland have been using Glow tasks and blogs to keep in touch with pupils

• Fife - Several schools in Fife have been encouraging home access to Glow.

• Falkirk – Glow Blogs are being used by pupils at Carronshore Primary School while the school is closed.

• Stirling - Open to everyone, Stirling Council has made a fantastic Glow blog for pupils to use. Newton Primary in Stirling have also been using Glow to set work for pupil during snow days.

To find out more about using the tools within Glow, visit the Glow Help Blog or alternatively you can e-mail Glow Admin.

December 6th, 2010

Traditional and Gaelic arts and language with Féis Rois

Julia Fenby

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Féis Rois is an arts organisation based in Dingwall which enables people of all ages to access, participate in and enjoy the traditional and Gaelic arts and language through a diverse programme of shared activities in Ross and Cromarty, across Scotland and beyond.

For their Co-Create project, Fèis Rois is bringing together P5-6 pupils from two Aberdeenshire primary schools and two Highland special education units for pupils with complex additional support needs. Pupils will participate in the traditional arts (storytelling, music, song and dance) and new media and technology, sharing their learning through Glow.

The project started this term with workshops taking place in each of the schools. P5/6 Pupils in Aberdeenshire have been working with a traditional storyteller, Ruth Kirkpatrick, to learn about the art of telling stories and the history behind traditional tales. The classes have been working on the stories Ruth has taught them outwith the scheduled time to make story plates and sticks. Musicians Findlay Napier and Angus Lyon will be working with the class to create their own compositions and songs around the stories they have been working on. The pupils in Highland are working with Fèis Rois to learn about traditional music and the art of song writing. Applegrove school have been using their class topics as stimulus for creating songs and the pupils have been introduced to and taught about a different instrument each week. Both schools have been working with musician and song writer, Jim Hunter and Rachael Duff from Fèis Rois and will be joined by musician Colin Mclean next week.

The two groups, including pupils, teachers and support staff, will keep video diaries and interact with each other throughout the project using Glow tools. As the project develops, videos of pupils’ work, together with images and creative writing compositions will be put up onto the project Glow group which can be found within the Co-Create group. The Fèis Rois Group is currently under development, and will be made available nationally when the project is complete in early 2011.

Throughout the project, pupils will be exposed to traditional Scottish culture, they will have the opportunity to enjoy performances by professional artists and performers, and they will develop new skills, creating and performing their own work for others. The project supports implementation of Curriculum for Excellence – it has a particular focus on the Expressive Arts, with Health and Wellbeing and Literacy experiences and outcomes.

Co-Create is funded through a partnership between Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Creative Scotland National Lottery Fund.

December 1st, 2010

Snow & Glow!

Gail Cairns

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 : Categories Aberdeenshire, National Groups

Anna Rossvoll is the CfE & Glow Officer for Aberdeenshire. At the beginning of the year, Aberdeenshire schools were closed frequently after a spate of bad weather. During this time, Anna created the “M2C News Snow Special Edition” Glow Group, which allowed teachers to post links and tasks for pupils to explore from home.

With schools now closing across the country because of adverse weather conditions, pupils in Aberdeenshire have again been directed to the “M2C News Snow Special Edition” Glow Group.

Within the Glow Group pupils can complete a variety of tasks including;

• Creating a snow journal – completing a number of tasks from various curricular areas.
• Creating & uploading snow poems & stories
• Art in the snow
• The Snow depth challenge
• Winter comic books & many more.

The Group also contains links to a number of new learner resources which encourage learning and teaching within Glow, such as The Daily What, Purple Mash and Glow Science.

This inspiring Glow Group is available to all Glow users and is available via the National Site. Visit the Group today and learn how Glow can benefit you this winter.

For more information on creating your own Glow Group contact Glow Admin.

September 1st, 2009

Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning visits Dunnottar school

Andrew Brown

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 : Categories Aberdeenshire, Curriculum for Excellence

On the 18th August, Dunnottar school in Aberdeenshire welcomed the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Ms Fiona Hyslop to the school. They were able to showcase all of the excellent work going on in and outside of our school.

If you’ve got a Glow account, you too can see what has been going on in the school, as everyone has been made a ‘reader’ of the site. On the school site, you’ll find a number of video clips, photos and audio clips telling you all about the work of the school - be sure to check out the video clips and photographs in the Creative & Enterprising and the Environmental tabs.

Brilliant use of Glow to record and share the event, and wonderful to see Aberdeenshire sharing what they are doing with the rest of the Glow community.

May 19th, 2009

A Brief History of Advertising - By 3E1 (inspired by Glow!)

Tina Stevens

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Last month Neil Winton of Perth Academy delivered a free on-line CPD session through the English Teachers’ national Glow group. The session was a huge success and one teacher who logged in was Miss Coates of Mearns Academy in Aberdeenshire who was inspired to try using WIKIs with her own class:

The other day, whilst planning an advertising unit for my S3 I wondered if I could use the wikispace for that. In just 3 days the result has been rather dramatic! The task is up and running and the kids are creating their own websites for their very own companies detailing the history of their advertising campaigns. We even have “The Apprentice” style PMs who I have made organisers. I am very chuffed with their progress.

The WIKI has been such a success that in only a few days the class have added nearly 300 different edits.

3E1 have now opened their WIKI for public viewing and you can access it HERE. There are several discussion threads open already and the class are keen to get as many ‘hits’ as possible and hear your thoughts on their work.

The English Teachers’ national Glow group runs a free CPD session for teachers’ every month. The May masterclass is scheduled for tomorrow (May 20th) between 4pm and 5pm and will feature Rob Marrs from the English Speaking Union giving practical advice on how incorporating debating techniques into teaching can help pupils gain a better understanding of text - for example ‘This house believes that Macbeth was to blame for his own downfall’

You don’t have to be an English teacher to join in these sessions but you do have to be a member of the group! To join click on this LINK, log into Glow and then press the Request Access button.

Finally, if you are also a teacher who has been inspired through Glow to start something new it would be great to hear from you! You can post a reply at the bottom of this blog or email the Glow team at [email protected]