Learning and Glowing June 13, 2007
Posted by Brian in : GLOW , trackback
At Knox Academy last night there was an informal gathering of staff who were connected with the GLOW project in East Lothian.
We were all there to get a briefing from GLOW mentors extraordinaire Tess Watson and Glowboy Dave Rawson as last week they attended a special training event for staff of schools taking part in the phase three pilot.
Dave and Tess explained the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) component of GLOW and ran us through some its features. We had look at the ability within the VLE for staff to use templates to create tests for pupils, email and instant messenger.
The test templates come in a variety of formats i.e simple true or false, fields requiring a numerical input or short written answer and the old favourite of multiple guess choice. Apart from the short written answer questions GLOW can automatically mark these tests. To avoid cheating, tests such as the multiple choice can be structured so that each pupil is presented the questions in a different order.
The email facility looks straight forward so there was no surprises there. The instant messenger also looked very familiar. Anyone who has used any of the standard instant messengers available should have no problem at all using it.
There were a few reservations about the time it took to upload material to the virtual learning environment an also the blandness of the templates used in the automatic testing but generally I think staff are reasonable happy about how things are progressing, given that its still in its test phase.
A few minor problems were identified at authority level, mainly browser and java based, but at least its given us a heads up to potential hiccups that could occur.
Many thanks to Tess and Glowboy Dave for giving up their own time to keep everyone abreast of developments.
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