All posts in the ‘Stirling’ Category
- October 13th, 2011
Daily Quote - Bringing the Katie Morag stories to life using Glow Meet
- ggallacher
- Comments: Comments Off Tags: : Categories Glow, Glow Meet, Highland, Literacy, Stirling, Uncategorized
“On Eigg, the impact of not only this Glow Meet, but Glow Meet in general has been enormous. It has opened up a whole new world to the pupils, who normally only have a very small community of people to interact with. Using Glow Meet has enabled them to link up with Bannockburn and other schools in the Mallaig ASG.”
Theresa Dandie, teacher Eigg Primary school
Read more in the Cookbook here
More- October 12th, 2011
Daily Quote - Northern Lights: an international project
- ggallacher
- Comments: Comments Off Tags: : Categories Expressive Arts, Glow, Glow Groups, North Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross, Stirling
“Young people have had the opportunity to speak to other young people in different countries, across different authorities. They have been able to share their interests, hobbies etc”
Ron Cowie - Stirling Council
To find out more, read the Cookbook here
More- October 11th, 2011
Daily Quote - Teacher stranded abroad? – No problem, use Glow!
- ggallacher
- Comments: Comments Off Tags: : Categories Glow, Glow Groups, Literacy, Social Studies, Stirling
“A remarkable use of GLOW especially since she was trapped in such a difficult situation. This will definitely inspire others to use GLOW”
“What a fantastic and inspiring use of Glow! Well done to all involved!”
Iain Harvey & Sarah Burton
To find out more read the Cookbook here
More- February 23rd, 2011
A right BIG blether!
- Jennifer McDougall
- Comments: 2 Comments » Tags: Tags: Adam Ingram, Michael Russell, right blether, SCCYP, Tam Baillie
: Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Glow Meet, Local authorities, Pupils, Stirling
Join us on Monday 7th March live from the MacRobert Centre in Stirling for ‘a right BIG Blether’ to celebrate all the right brilliant things Scotland’s Commissioner Tam Baillie has received throughout ‘a RIGHT blether’ and to hear the results of the national vote.
Tam will be joined in Stirling by Adam Ingram MSP, Minister for Children and Early Years and Michael Russell MSP Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning as well as lots of other people who work with and for children and young people across Scotland. There will of course be lots of children and young people there too and plenty of opportunity for you and your class to get involved in interactive workshops.
The whole day will be broadcast through Glow Meet and you can join us for whatever part or parts of the day that suit you. A detailed outline of the day can be found in the SCCYP Glow Group.
Find out the result of the RIGHT blether vote and what Tam is going to do to try and deliver this for the children and young people of Scotland. It was your vote so find out how it will shape your future!!
Sign up to take part in this historic event in the SCCYP Glow Group.
More- February 11th, 2011
World of Work Wednesdays - Working with our Past
- Jennifer McDougall
- Comments: Comments Off Tags: Tags: heritage, History, WoWW
: Categories Career Opportunities and Pathways, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow, Glow Meet, Pupils, Stirling
The next WoWW event takes place on Wednesday 23rd February at 2pm and is looking at Working with our Past (History and Heritage)
Have you ever wondered what sort of jobs you can do related to history and heritage? What sort of jobs are there beyond being a historian and a history teacher? What sort of skills would you need to be successful in this line of work? Now you can find out more!
This event will be broadcast to you live from Stirling High School. The interactive Glow Meet will also provide participants with the opportunity to take part in challenges, ask questions and learn about the career paths taken by three individuals.
Find out more and sign up for this event in the World of Work Glow Group.
More- December 8th, 2010
Glow in the snow - Inspiring stories
- Gail Cairns
- Comments: 2 Comments » Tags: Tags: Glow
: 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.
More- October 8th, 2010
Glowing Cookbook - Northern Lights: An international project
- Gail Cairns
- Comments: Comments Off Tags: Tags: Expressive Arts, National glow groups
: Categories Expressive Arts, Glow Groups, North Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross, Stirling
Northern Lights is an expressive arts project which has seen schools in three local authorities in Scotland working with partner schools in Norway and Russia.
Irene Pandolfi of North Lanarkshire Council and Ron Cowie of Stirling Council were amongst a number of delegates who in 2009 participated in a study visit to Norway, organised through the Scottish Continuing International Professional Development (SCIPD) programme. The focus of their interest was a national initiative - the Cultural Rucksack - which gives all pupils in Norway access to professional arts and cultural activities in addition to the basic expressive arts curriculum.
As a result of the SCIPD visit, and the relationships established with Norwegian schools, Irene and Ron created the Northern Lights project. The project links schools in North Lanarkshire, Perth, Kinross, and Stirling with partner schools in Norway and Russia. The project aims to develop pupils’ skills in expressive arts, literacy and peer assessment. Northern Lights also encourages pupils to study and appreciate other cultures.
Visit this cookbook.
More- June 10th, 2010
Ask An Astronaut Glow Meet with NASA
- Dawn Adams
- Comments: Comments Off Tags: Tags: astronaut, Fintry Primary, LL Online, Mars, NASA, space, Strathclyde University
: Categories Glow Meet, Stirling
In collaboration with the Scottish Space School, join this exclusive opportunity to talk to Nick Patrick and Heather Paul from NASA using Glow Meet.
Nick is an astronaut who has performed three space walks and lived on the International Space Station. Heather is a space suit engineer and knows everything there is to know about making it possible for astronauts to survive in the void of space.
Tune in to the Glow Meet to watch Nick, Heather and pupils from Fintry Primary School run a simulation to move a robotic land rover around the surface of Mars. This will mimic what real astronauts have to do when they collect samples from the surface of Mars using the robots Spirit and Opportunity. These rovers have amassed a vast amount of information and we have learnt huge amounts about the planet Mars.
To learn about Mars before meeting Nick and Heather, pupils can have a look at the Glow Science films about Life on Mars by LL Online. This event will be suitable for middle primary upwards.
Visit the National Sciences Glow group to find out more about this Glow Meet and how to get involved.
More- October 5th, 2009
Pupil Peer Support in Action in Stirling
- ronnierankin
- Comments: Comments Off Tags: : Categories Glow Groups, Pupils, Stirling
Allan’s Primary in Stirling today hosted some very special guests, the Glow Club from Bannockburn Primary.
This elite band of P5, 6 and 7’s went along to Allan’s to help pupils new to Glow with logging on for the first time.
The Glow Club also gave a short tour of the resources available and the work they have already produced on their My Glow pages.
With the pupils from Allan’s keen to get started, the Club gave support as the P6’s began to explore Glow and construct their own personal space.
It was a very successful and rewarding morning, with both sets of pupils thoroughly enjoying the chance to collaborate. Both schools now plan to work together on their Victorians topic using Glow as their main means of communication.
We wish them every success and watch this space for further updates on their progress.
More- June 8th, 2009
GLOW conference Monday 15th June 4-6pm -Languages and Interdisciplinary Approaches
- Tina Stevens
- Comments: Comments Off Tags: : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow Groups, Glow Meet, National Groups, Stirling, Uncategorized, West Lothian
Log in to the first ever national virtual conference for languages teachers in Scotland!
Scottish CILT would like to invite you to take part in the first ever national VIRTUAL event for languages teachers: Languages and Interdisciplinary Approaches, on Monday 15th June at 4pm.
Two practitioners, one primary and one secondary will share theirs and their learners’ experiences. Corinne Anderson, from Balfron High School will talk about the Europe week experience she devised for S2, and Wilma Gordon, from Mid Calder Primary School will explain how a link to a French school provided the vehicle for an ambitious collaboration resulting in bilingual novels and films in her P7 class.
All you need to take part is your Glow log in and a computer – try it from home if you can! However, you must be a member of the Scottish CILT group to take part in the conference. If you are not already a member follow this link to the national Modern Languages Glow group then click on the link for Scottish CILT. (Please note that membership will be given within 24 hours but notification of this is not always possible so please check back after this time)>
Please join our group and email asap to let us know that you would like to take part in the event.
Looking forward to seeing you on Monday 15th on Glow!
Catriona
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