Glow Scotland

April 18th, 2011

Working in the Food and Drink Industry

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Career Opportunities and Pathways, Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Glow Meet, Moray, Pupils

This WOWW event hopes to identify the employment and career opportunities that exist within the food and drinks industry from shop floor employment through to the food technologists and scientists who will work for our major food manufacturers.

Moray where the event is coming from live, is well placed in this field with quality retail outlets such as Mr Royan’s shop through to Whisky manufacturing and wholesaling and retailing with Gordon and MacPhail through to food manufacture and marketing with Walkers shortbread who manufacture food stuffs for a variety of Brand names as well as the famous Walkers Shortbread.

The speakers on the panel that day will be representative of these companies.

The food and drinks industry employs approximately 500,000 people in companies of all sizes, 39% of employees in this industry are aged between 16 and 24. There is an acknowledged gender imbalance with 64% of the employees being male.

Sign up and join us on Wednesday 27th April from 2-3pm and find out more about career opportunities in this exciting field.

February 20th, 2010

“Teachers need to stop saying ‘hand it in’ and start saying ‘publish it’” - Alan November

Tina Stevens

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On 18th February David Terron from Elgin Academy delivered a masterclass session to teachers across the country that was packed full of ideas for allowing a class to ‘publish’ their work.

During his session David showcased the range of work that he and his classes are doing with WIKIs and blogs, from simple ideas like homework reminders, through model essays and intense drama analysis to a poetry WIKI which has been so successful it now gets requests from other schools for poems they would like to see included!

David then went on to link this work to Curriculum for Excellence, assessment and Skills4Life before explaining how WIKIs can also be used for planning all kinds of activities -in his case TeachMeet Highlands. The session was so packed with great ideas that one of the participants posted “That was fantastic but I need time to take it all in!”

To read David’s own account of delivering the session click HERE to access his blog.

All of the resources discussed in this masterclass can now be accessed through the English Teachers National Glow group and a recording of the session will also be available soon.

Every month a masterclass like this one is delivered FREE through the English Teachers’ National Glow group. The sessions cover a variety of areas but all have an English/Literacy focus. Click HERE to request membership.

Another fantastic masterclass will be available to join in March. Keep checking Glowscotland for further details.

February 15th, 2010

Latest English Teachers masterclass - practical applications for WIKIs

Tina Stevens

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David Terron is an English Teacher at Elgin Academy Moray. As a former Army IT expert, David has been using wikis, blogs, ePortfolios and websites in teaching throughout his career. Rather than a theoretical session David’s masterclass will highlight the many ways WIKIs are being used on a daily basis in Elgin Academy, including the work he has been doing with his own English classes.
The session will show the clear links between WIKIs and assessment, Curriculum for Excellence and Skills for Life. David will showcase the work he has been doing on Bold Girls , Intermediate 1 poetry, S1 reading records and will also explain the usefulness of WIKIs as a way of keeping Eportfolios.

This session will run on THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY at 4pm and is free to all members of the English Teachers’ national Glow group. You do not have to be an English teacher but you do have to be a member to join in! To request membership click on this LINK or alternatively go to National Site - National Groups - Staffroom - English Teachers and request membership from there.

Please note: If you would like confirmation of membership please remember to include a valid e-mail address with your application. All applications will be approved within 12 hours.

March 3rd, 2009

Moray on film

Tina Stevens

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Recently I was asked to film a Glow Mentor training session and Moray Council were kind enough to let me gatecrash their two day event.

This meant that as well as getting to grips with Glow itself the Mentors had the added pressure of being filmed throughout. They adapted like professionals, however, and were soon more than happy to talk on camera about their hopes for Glow in Moray.

By the end of the two days we had captured some fantastic footage and a few new stars had been born!

Thanks to Donnie and all the Mentors in Moray for their patience and enthusiasm. The end result will be available on Glowscotland soon.