GLOWing in Tranent February 5, 2007
Posted by Brian in : GLOW, Uncategorized, teachmeet , trackbackI was at Tranent primary on Friday for a GLOW mentors day.
The idea of the day was to plan our Teachmeet Roadshows sessions and to formulate strategies for rolling them out in East Lothian schools.
The ability to competently handle digital images will be important when GLOW is up and running as a lot of social media applications are image friendly.It’s a great way of sharing good practice, seeing what others have been up to and how such things can help improve learning and teaching processes. Also its very good fun.
After a briefing from Karen and Ewan we were given various little tasks to accomplish. We familiarised ourselves with bubbleshare which is a bobby dazzler of a programme used for making annotated slideshows of pictures uploaded from digital cameras or the internet. You can see my efforts here.
Before lunch we were given a choice of subjects to participate in the afternoon session.
They were digital imaging for secondary schools, podcasts, animation, film and blogging.
I volunteered for digital imaging topic and worked alongside Tess and Robin to come up with ideas for a two hour inservice to eventually be rolled out to East Lothian schools.
Over the next couple of hours we searched for online sites where digital images can be simply edited online thus removing the necessity of having specialist image editing software installed on any computer.
We started on a timeline and then fleshed out the bare bones of our ideas before taking part in a half hour wash up session where the respective groups discussed their own projects.
Our task couldn’t be finished on the day so Tess, Robin and myself will collaborate and hopefully get everything tied up soon.
I would just want to say thanks to Ewan, Karen and the rest of the team for organising an excellent day. I learnt an amazing amount in a very short time.
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Ditto - a good day. I learnt some useful stuff about IPhoto too!
I hope that there is time in people’s lives for the collaboration - that little 10 minutes at the end of the week is the kind of stuff that will build Babylon’s Tower, as it were. It was a heck of a 24 hours, I have to say, though I’m glad to be on a more routine schedule now.
Hi Brian,
A really good day and beneficial for the team to have all those brains working overtime to achieve the tasks! Many thanks for your positive input as always.
Karen
