Glow Meet could soon be enabling new links between schools and industry across Edinburgh, thanks to Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce’s Education Policy Group.
At today’s meeting of the Group, chairman Ray Harris of Edinburgh’s Telford College identified the development of school / industry links as one of the key themes to be progressed this year. This [...]
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Posted in Glow on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
My slideshow from Scottish Learning Festival 2008 talk “Making Glow Happen: How lessons from deploying a smaller scale authority-wide web publishing system in East Lothian may help.”
Original PowerPoint presentation:making-glow-happen (22 slides, 1.8MB)
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Here’s a link to it on Slideshare.net.
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Feedback from an introductory training session on ICT for this year’s East Lothian NQTs apparently included the request that we should have covered how to use the school email system, in place of introducing Glow.
Maybe this is a sign of the times, as increasing numbers of younger people make less use of email, preferring instead [...]
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Posted in CPD, Glow on Jul 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
East Lothian’s newly qualified teachers (NQTs) will be able to stay in touch, support one another and find their programme documentation, via their own Glow Group this session.
Their induction training before the session starts includes a day-long session on use of ICT in East Lothian schools. This year, the session will include some time on Glow. Of [...]
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Posted in Glow on Jul 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
We’re noticing that staff new to Glow view it through the prism of their existing model of how the web works. Most of the time, that’s fine, but in some areas it can cause confusion. Clearly it’s better if we can avoid that confusion, and we’ve been talking today about how we might do that.
The [...]
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Posted in Glow on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Before today’s Glow Mentor training started, Paul Trickett of Preston Lodge High School gave an impromptu demo of some 3-ball juggling.
Juggling Maths teaching and Glow Mentoring, we feel, won’t cause Paul any difficulties.
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Update 10/1/07: Tess Watson was present too!
Here are notes from Monday’s meeting. Comments welcome. (Word doc: Notes of Exc-el Meeting No.1, 8.1.2007)
See also:
http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/2007/0…
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/01/a_…
http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebrayco…
EAST LOTHIAN EDUCATION & CHILDREN’S SERVICES
EXC-EL DEVELOPMENT - www.exc-el.org.uk
Notes of Exc-el Board Meeting No.1, held in John Muir House on Monday 8th January 2007
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