Glow Scotland

May 18th, 2012

Creative Connections fife 2012 - An Early Years Gathering

Jennifer McDougall

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Fife Council’s Cultural Partnerships Team, in partnership with Fife’s Childcare & Early Years Services and The Byre Theatre are delighted to announce their early years event ‘Creative Connections fife 2012’ on Wednesday 23 May 2012 at The Byre Theatre, St Andrews.

Bookings are still open, so if you are an early years practitioner or have a professional interest in this field, then this day will be of interest to you. Book today!

To book contact [email protected] or telephone 01592 583255.

Find out more about Creative Connections 2012 - An Early Years Gathering. Also visit our Glow Group

If you are unable to attend in person please join us via Glow. All sessions will be live on Glow TV - sign up and register for all the events in Glow TV!

January 19th, 2012

Burns Day Celebrations in Glow

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Fife, Glow, Glow Meet, Literacy, Pupils, Social Studies

This year Glow is joining Dalgety Bay Primary School in Fife to celebrate Burns Day 2012 with Kevin Thompson and Burns 250.

We are broadcasting two separate events one specifically for P1-3 and the other for P 4-7. The first Glow Meet is for P 1-3 and will involve story telling about the life of Robert Burns, his poems and lots of opportunities to sing along to many of his famous, and sometimes funny songs! This event begins at 9.45am - Sign up and join this event.

Then at 11am we have something for the P4 -7 children. In this our second live session Kevin in his one-man show accompanied by Powerpoint slides will tells Burns’ life-story based around his songs and poems.
The songs and poems are woven into a narrative telling about key points in Burns’ life from his birth in 1759 to his untimely death just 37 years later. The best way to enjoy Burns is to take part so audience participation is encouraged where songs have choruses!! Sign up and join this event.

So why not sign up and join us for these very Scottish celebrations live in Glow TV?!
Further Burns resources can be found on the Education Scotland website.

January 13th, 2012

Encouraging deeper learning: pupils creating surveys

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Duloch Primary School in Fife began to use Glow in early 2010. To take advantage of pupils’ curiosity and interest in ICT, a Glow Worms group of pupils was established. This group are given additional teaching in basic Glow skills and the pupils then become ‘champions’ for Glow throughout the school. Here Emma McLucas and Moray Dickson describe the plans for the Glow Worms group and the benefits of one of the activities they have already undertaken – creating surveys.

Find out more in the Cookbook here

October 19th, 2011

Raising attainment in literacy in Primary 3

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When Glow was introduced at Touch Primary School in Fife in early 2010, teacher Kate McIntosh was keen to explore how it could be used to raise attainment in literacy in her P3 class. She wanted to stimulate pupils’ interest in using the library, to encourage pupils to read for pleasure and to explore a wider range of authors and genre.

In the P3 Book Group Kate created a survey, to gauge pupils’ engagement with, and enthusiasm for, reading. This was the P3s first experience of a Glow survey, so questions were kept simple with either multiple choice or free-text formats. Kate’s pupils and the parallel P3 class responded to the survey. The two classes are not in adjacent classrooms in the school, so having them respond to the same survey and being able to view each others’ responses worked very well. Kate and her stage partner analysed the survey responses, using the graphical responses option, and were interested in the snapshot this provided, particularly in breaking some of the gender stereotypes which might have been expected.

To find out more - read the Cookbook here

October 7th, 2011

Embedding Glow in daily learning and teaching

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Olivia Wexelstein teaches a P4-7 class at Wellwood Primary School in Fife. She has been using Glow since January 2010 and is very positive about the opportunities it has opened up. Glow is rapidly becoming embedded into daily life in the classroom: to share learning, to record pupils’ experiences and achievements, and to give pupils a voice.

Read more in the Cookbook here

October 6th, 2011

Enhancing learning and teaching in English classes

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This cookbook describes how a number of staff from different departments at Glenwood High School Fife have been using Glow to enhance learning and teaching. It describes the work of one teacher, Alison Wood, and explore’s how she has used Glow with English classes from first year to Higher. In the Recipe section, video clips show how you can replicate some of Alison’s ideas, such as creating collaborative wikis.

Read more in the Cookbook here

October 5th, 2011

Creating a room booking system on Glow

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Ian Gibson is a Business Studies and Computing teacher at St. Andrew’s High School in Fife. He is also a Glow Mentor and a member of the ICT working committee in the school. Last year the committee was tasked with developing an electronic room booking system. This cookbook details how the room booking system was created and the impact it has had in the school.

Find out more in the Cookbook here

October 3rd, 2011

Using a Document Library to facilitate group presentations

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In this cookbook we focus on the work of one teacher, Kim Yapp, and how she found that Glow solved a long-standing problem. Kim teaches Modern Foreign Languages. For the last couple of years, the department has run a Culture Project for first year pupils. At the end of each unit of work, different aspects of French culture, such as Christmas celebrations, school and leisure, are introduced. At the end of the year, pupils are asked to work in groups, create a presentation on a cultural theme of their own choice, and deliver the presentation to their class.

See more in the Glow Cookbook here

September 27th, 2011

“Glow is an ideal place to share pupils’ work”

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Glenwood High School in Fife, with a roll of 860 pupils and with 90 teaching staff, has seen a significant increase in the use of Glow over the last six months. By the end of the year, around 75% of staff and pupils had active accounts and in an average week over 200 pupils were using Glow during school hours.

This cookbook describes how a number of staff from different departments, have been using Glow to enhance learning and teaching.

In this cookbook we focus on the work of the Computing department. In the Recipe section, video clips show how you can replicate the use of avatars, vokis and forums.

Read more here

September 26th, 2011

Lynburn Primary: giving pupils responsibility for their own Glow Group

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This is the second of two cookbooks about Jacqui Clark ( a P5 teacher at Lynburn Primary School in Fife) work. The first focused on how Jacqui used Glow to support learning in areas as diverse as Mandarin, Christmas and the Royal Wedding! In this cookbook we look at how she has given the children in her class their own Glow Group and given them the responsibility for ensuring it is used appropriately. She is delighted with the way they have responded to that challenge.

Jacqui’s Primary 5 class were already well used to Glow, to the Glow Group environment and in particular to using Discussion boards to post comments about their work or to ask questions.

See more in the Glow Cookbook here