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I haven’t really written much in the last wee while. This is largely due to the projects I have been working on. I don’t really think that White Board installations, PC refreshes/upgrades and letter drafting etc are really that interesting to those not directly involved, so I have kept quiet. However the next few weeks will prove to be a lot more exciting.

We are now ready to start our user provisioning of Glow. We are holding weekly twilight sessions which our mentors can opt to attend. These have been really useful for sharing ideas and interacting within the portal. During last week’s session, we gatecrashed a Glow meet which Andrew Brown had been hosting. There is a lot going on in the back ground with our Mentors… watch this space! One of my intentions this week is to get a national Biology group set-up. Jaye Richards has been doing some fabulous work with pupils over in the West. I made contact with Jaye a couple of months ago and we are both very keen to start making links and connecting Biology Teachers and pupils. I will be attending a  Glow Key Contacts meeting tomorrow and I will report back in due course.

The forthcoming Internet Safety Talks for Parents by Ollie Bray will be informative and exciting. I am sure you will have read all about these on Ollie’s site, but if you happen to have missed his post, here is the link. We will be running five sessions in East Lothian (one for each cluster) and prior to these, Ollie will be running a session at Liberton High School. I am looking forward to listening to Ollie talk there; it will be nice to see one or two old faces as well.

There is also an Edubuzz Open Meeting on Monday the 12th of May 4-6pm, the Large Meeting Room, John Muir House. All welcome!