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Today we received the first day of out Glow Mentor training at Prestonpans Education Centre. It was exciting and engaging for all of our Mentors and it generated a lot of enthusiasm for the project. I will write a more reflective post over the weekend, but in the mean time, here are a few notes pulled from my scribbles:

• Learning About Glow- resources.
• Glow groups- Setting Up A Group. Adding web parts from the Virtual Server Gallery. Uploading Documents- dependent on what your Glow Group is for.
• Page Viewer Web Part- The integration of Google Maps and changing the title of a Web Part.
• Creating Web Parts
• Altering Pages- i.e. Changing the name of the name of the page from ‘Discussions’ to ‘Points Of View’
• Choosing Templates- The format of the page.
• Using the ‘Picture Library’ Web Part- Looking at sizing of images etc.
• Advanced Settings- Changing Group titles and Glow Group tabs.

During the afternoon we looked at Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).
This certainly merits a post and discussion on its own (there was a mention of creating an East Lothian Creative Commons and we will consider this further).

A very exciting and productive day was had by all. I am sure I am not alone in thinking:

‘I am really looking forward to tomorrow’!

You can view some of today’s footage here.

More to follow…