Wednesday, May 30th, 2007...6:26 pm
Glow Learn: ‘Phase 3′
’Phase 2’ of Glow has come and gone. Here in East Lothian we are getting ourselves ready for ‘Phase 3’ (Glow Learn). During the first two phases it has mainly been the usability of Glow that was tested. During ‘Phase3’ we will be putting the portal through its final trial before it goes live. I have not received a confirmed date for the formal roll out of Glow. I think this will be largely dependant on the findings of the third phase. On Monday and Tuesday of next weekDave Rawson (AKA Glowboy) and I will be attending a residential course in Stirling. This training will allow us to maximize our experience with pupils and push glow to its full (present) potential.
”Glow Learn would be used to deliver materials relevant to what those pupils would be working on during June. To this end, if you have any electronic content that you could use such as worksheets or other content in any format (.xls, .doc, .pdf or others) then please bring them to the course at Stirling. Also if you had any course planners or similar then those too would be useful during the course to allow you plan a course within Glow Learn.”
So that’s the 256MB Memory Stick full, onto the 1GB!!!
I am not sure what else to expect at this stage. As always, it is hard to report on something you are not actively experiencing. I am hoping to find the time during the evenings of the Monday and Tuesday to write brief updates of our training and what we can expect during ‘Phase 3’ (Glow Learn).
I can promise you that when we all have Glow, for real, in the flesh, it will have an immensely positive impact on Learning and Teaching across Scotland.
Besides two days solidly occupied with Glow, as the training is in Stirling, I am even more excited. This will be my first residential education I have received there since I was an undergraduate all those many years ago!
Oh thee nostalgia!
7 Comments
May 30th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Pure dead jealous! I really enjoy visiting the Stirling Management Centre (…and am a bit gutted that the training there has been cancelled!)
If you get time, take some pictures of ‘Maisies’ for me… ;0)
May 30th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
I will do Neil!
If I am correct, the old ‘Shankies’ has been re-named GLOW! How appropriate!!!!
Tess
May 30th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
GLOW is indeed the new disco/cellar/place of dark fumbles in the University of Stirling union.
GLOW Online also seems to be a place of dark fumbles as we lurch from 404 error to 404 error as we explore the site. Dear Lord all we want is an all inclusive system where we can register them in the morning, track them through school, write our reports on them with the grades etc added for us and have access to a ready supply of good content for use in our lessons. It would also help if the new projectors we all got up here were orientated the right way up, did not make our monitors go so dark we cannot read them and a way of ensuring that the ten Airliner Wireless Slates don’t interfere with each other in adjoining classrooms would be jolly welcome too!
Good blog Ms W - here’s hoping your dreams all come true but given this and previous governmental records on IT projects, I for one am not holding my breathe and have carried on creating my own system as I will have retired by the time GLOW works. (I’m an NQT !)
PS: Your link to Glow in your last para needs a http://www. inserted to make it work.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Look forward to hearing all about it. I was there ages ago for staff development training in a previous life. Probably still years before you were there…
May 31st, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Now I feel really old… I’ve never heard of Shankies… [yorkshire] It were ‘t’it ‘Long Bar’ when I wer’t lad… you could see nowt but trees out of ‘t’it window… trees and
the dregs of a society gone wrongstudents… Aye, we had real butter on wir ‘Ovis, an all…Mind thee, we could ‘old next Glow launch there… [/yorkshire]
May 31st, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Neil, a Yorkshire accent doesn’t suit you! lol!!! It was the Long Bar when I was there.
‘dave’, Thank you for your positive words regarding my web-log. Although Glow might not be available in its full capacity when it is rolled out, I promise it will bring very good things
As far as the time span goes, unless you are an NQT who is qualifying for full registration this summer and your 60th Birthday is in Autumn of this year, you will use Glow and it will bring its benefits (though this might be at the digression of your establishment).
If not, I am prepared to eat my words!….
You can hold me too that!
Incidentally, are you an NQT in East Lothian?
Regardless, I strongly suggest that you report your discrepancies to the ICT Department within your authority. Here in East Lothian, they are always more than willing to rectify any problems. After all, there is no point in having the latest technology if it cannot be fully utilised.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:07 pm
NQT English in Moray but lucky enough to have got the full time job up here for August. Of the 25 in my uni group only 3 of us have jobs, and the other two had to move (one to Southern England!).
Hope GLOW is sorted soon as I will have around 15 years to do before I do retire at 65 (or might be 75 by the time the NuLabour clowns mess things up again…).
It was easier in the Army - you could just shout at someone and get it sorted!
Regards
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