Elizabeth’s Blog

East Lothian will be taking part in the Phase 2 Pilot of the GLOW Portal along with thirteen other authorities across Scotland.  Having successfully piloted Phase 1 of the portal in two of our schools we are looking forward to the next stage in the development of GLOW. There will be six components available for testing in this next phase which will comprise -

• Web Hosting to allow users to own, add content to and publish web sites.
• GlowMeet which will allow audio and web conferencing.
• Glow Chat which will allow real time text only communication.
• Video Streaming which allows the uploading and viewing of video content.
• Mailing Lists where users can be organised into different mailing lists and
• Secure File Transfer where data files can be shared securely.

This is quite a tall order to pilot given the timescales but after discussion with the pilot schools we can decide on which of the above six components we would like to take forward.