Friday, May 9th, 2008...8:13 am
On The ‘Glow’ Again!
This week I attended a Glow Key Contacts meeting in Edinburgh. There are around four Key Contacts meetings held every year. Key contacts are the representatives nominated by each council. These meetings are designed so that authorities can get together, share and learn from each others experiences. Out of Scotland’s 32 authorities, 21 have now signed up for Glow. Out of the 21, 14 are now live.
During the course of the day, we were able to discuss glow and our rollout plans. Angus, South Ayreshire, Renfrewshire and East Lothian were in my group. Gordon McKinlay gave us an update on the rollout within his authority. They are embedding Glow within ACfE. Glow is on every schools development plan. Within each school, responsibility for the portal is on the remit of three members of staff:
- 1 member of the Admin Team- Responsible for daily content and updates
- 1 Teacher (Champion)- Responsible for staff training and support.
- 1 Member of the SMT- Responsible for discipline etc
As we will be rolling out in the very near future this is certainly a model that is worth considering.
During the the day were also given a number of talks. Dawn Adams gave us a brief run through and update on Glow Learn, the VLE. We won’t be using the VLE during the initial rollout in East Lothian. However, if time permits, I will start my own work on classroom resources.
Following my last post, I have also liaised with Andrew Brown. He will be setting up a National Biology Teachers Group. Jaye Richards and I will start the group off. We will be inviting teachers of Biology from across Scotland to join us. Initially the group will be a sort of ‘who’s who’ with a view to perhaps offering CPD? If you are interested in getting involved, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
A very productive day was had by all. Many thanks to the Glow team at LTS for their hospitality.
3 Comments
May 9th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I’d love to be involved in anything technologically biological!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Great Fearghal! I will keep you up to speed!
May 14th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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