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May 24th, 2012

Copyright in Education

Dawn Adams

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 : Categories CPD, Technologies

The subject of copyright can often be a confusing and complicated one. Whether it’s using music, video or digital images for learning and teaching it can be hard to navigate the minefield that is copyright and intellectual property rights. More and more teachers and learners know that simply copying pictures from random websites is illegal and could lead to prosecution.

In a series of blog posts we’re going to explore the topic of intellectual property rights (IPR), improve understanding of what this means in education and highlight some useful resources to provide support.

Copyright Symbols by MikeBlogs, 2008 (CC BY 2.0)

Copyright is all around us – the web, music, films, learning resources, books, games, adverts – the list goes on! Pupils and teachers may interact with music, movies, software and digital content everyday but do they understand that these works may be protected? Do they recognise how intellectual property rights affect them personally? Do you?

What are Intellectual Property Rights?
It may be an unfamiliar term but the output from an intellectual or creative effort is Intellectual Property.
Intellectual Property Rights are available to the originator/author. These rights allow for the protection of intellectual property and control its use by others.

Copyright is one of several Intellectual Property Rights but is very relevant in education. Other rights in the Intellectual Property ‘family’ are moral rights, patents, trade marks and design rights. There are also performers’ and photographers’ rights and confidentially and trade secrets.

This might seem complicated but there are several benefits of IPR and they are to:
Encourage innovation, share knowledge, protect the creator, allow work to be developed, allow commercial return and allow the work to be used in the public sphere.

For more information about IPR there are several useful sources:

NEN, Copy Rights and Wrongs, Know the Score – What is IPR?
http://copyrightsandwrongs.e2bn.org/ipr-and-copyright/what-is-ipr

NEN, Copy Rights and Wrongs, Know the Score – What is copyright?
http://copyrightsandwrongs.e2bn.org/ipr-and-copyright/what-is-copyright

March 7th, 2012

World of Work Wednesdays - Explore Your Future in Oil and Gas

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories 16+ Learning Choices, Career Opportunities and Pathways, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow, Pupils, Sciences, Technologies

Do you want a career with global opportunities? Are you interested in working for a pioneering industry? Do you want the chance to earn as you learn?

Join our World of Work Wednesday event to hear from oil & gas professionals to hear what types of jobs are available in the industry and what it’s is really like to be part of a dynamic sector that offers excellent rewards for hard work!

Also you’ll get the chance to ask real-life professionals anything you’ve ever wanted to know about oil & gas.

From HR to PR, drilling to design, accountancy to apprenticeships, onshore and offshore there’s something to inspire everyone.

So why not sign up and join us on Wednesday 14th March at 2pm to find out all about it?! - WOWW - Explore Your Future in Oil and Gas

February 3rd, 2012

Glow TV with the Scottish Space School - Ask an Astronaut

Dawn Adams

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 : Categories Events, Glow Meet, Pupils, Sciences, Technologies

13th of June - 10am

Join us again this year for a fantastic opportunity to explore space travel and meet three exciting NASA guests all in one day.

Find out more about what they’ve done, ask your own questions, take part in space quizzes and use this unique opportunity to enter the world of space exploration. Don’t miss out, you can sign up here now.

More information about our exciting space guests and how you can all get involved in this Glow TV event will follow soon.

February 2nd, 2012

Climate Change Debate Glow Meet 3: Adapting to climate change

Dawn Adams

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 : Categories Events, Glow Meet, Sciences, Social Studies, Technologies

2pm – 3:15pm, Monday 6th February 2012

If the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is anything to go by then flooding, droughts, heat waves and extreme storms are likely to occur more frequently through to the middle of the century and beyond.

Are we powerless in the face of increasingly extreme weather or will human ingenuity, resourcefulness and spirit provide us with solutions to help us ride the storm? What steps are our government and public agencies already taking to prepare us for the changes coming? How can the poorest countries adapt with limited resources?

From floating houses to massive flood defence schemes there is already much work underway. Will it be enough? In this, the last in a series of three national Glow meets, learners will have a chance to air their views and put searching questions to our panel of experts including:

- James Curran MBE, Chief Executive, Scottish Environment Protection Agency

- Anna Beswick, Public Sector Officer, Adaptation Scotland

- John Sharp, Schools Education Officer, SCIAF

Visit http://bit.ly/climatedebatethree to register, post your questions in advance and join the Glow meet on the day. This Glow meet is aimed at learners in upper primary and secondary schools.

For resources and videos on climate change visit Weather and Climate Change, Exploring Climate Change, STEM Central and Climate Change on Glow.

Other events in the series included:

- Glow meet 1: Our changing weather and climate - view recording here

- Glow meet 2: Climate science – evidence versus controversy - view recording here

January 31st, 2012

Scottish Education Awards

Lesley Sneddon

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The Scottish Education Awards celebrate the hard work and success which takes place in Scottish education. They recognise the achievements of people who dedicate their lives to children and young people and showcase the valuable work and innovation in Scottish classrooms. Nominations close on Friday 2 March 2012. Visit the Scottish Education Awards website for more information.

January 24th, 2012

Using a survey for topic evaluation to enable pupil voice

ggallacher

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Judith Lennox was P7 teacher at Coylton Primary School in South Ayrshire and is now DHT in the school. When it came to their topic work on Earth and Space, the P7 pupils at Coylton Primary School had lots of ideas about what they would like to learn about. Judith incorporated all of these ideas into the Glow Group she put together for the topic.

Find out more in the cookbook here:

January 20th, 2012

Using a wiki as an evidence store for pupil e-portfolios

ggallacher

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Maureen Atkins is a Maths teacher at St Aidan’s High School in North Lanarkshire. She has been making good use of Glow in her teaching. She was involved in the school making the decision to move ahead with using e-portfolios with the S1 year group. Maureen was keen that evidence of pupil achievement that she had captured in the classroom would be available to be used by the pupils when creating posts in their e-portfolios. This Cookbook will focus on the Maths Store Glow Group and on the wiki. You will see a tour of the Glow Group and wiki and also interviews with Maureen where she will explain what she was setting out to do.

Find out more in the Cookbook here

January 19th, 2012

e-portfolios using Glow blogs at Barr Primary, South Ayrshire

ggallacher

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From the recommendations contained within Building the Curriculum 5 Jennifer Richardson then South Ayrshire’s Curriculum for Excellence Assessment Team Development Officer, had decided to initiate a pilot project to use Glow to help schools meet the requirements. The documentation states that,

“children and young people should agree learning goals and should record them in ways that are meaningful and relevant.”
It also calls for the creation of a Learner Profile which should include targets and goals with information on all areas of the curriculum and wider achievement and a range of evidence of learning. It states that learners should have opportunities for reflection, sharing and dialogue. Maintaining an electronic portfolio within Glow could provide schools and pupils with the ongoing information required for a Profile.

In this cookbook we will focus on work done in Barr Primary School in South Ayrshire as part of this pilot process.

Find out more in the cookbook here.

January 13th, 2012

Standard Grade Music – Using a wiki for project work

ggallacher

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Irene Stewart is a Principal Teacher of Music at Bellshill Academy in North Lanarkshire. She began using Glow quite recently, encouraged by her own son’s use of Glow in primary school. She saw the potential for her secondary pupils to be accessing materials from home and also to be able to ask questions on Discussion Boards for help with their homework. Her son’s obvious enjoyment of using Glow made her think that her pupils would be motivated by using it.

This is the second of 2 Cookbooks which will look at how Irene has started to use Glow with her Standard Grade classes but mainly with S3. This second Cookbook on Irene’s use of Glow will focus on the pupils using a wiki to upload project work for Standard Grade Music.

Find out more in the Cookbook here:

January 13th, 2012

Encouraging deeper learning: pupils creating surveys

ggallacher

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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