With the summer holiday behind us, today saw the first teaching day of the summer term here in East Lothian. We have all returned back to school bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to tackle the year ahead. One particular question that I have been asked by a number of colleagues is ‘What is the [...]
The Heriot-Watt University SCHOLAR Scheme is a VLE that I have been using with pupils for a number of years. On Friday I attended the Scholar Conference 2007 with my friend and colleague Jan Peaston. During the course of the day, speeches were given on ‘The SCHOLAR Model’ by Gerry Toner and ‘A Curriculum for [...]
Yesterday, I used the VLE ‘Glow Learn’ for the first time during its ‘Phase 3’ Trail. Within the ‘Teach a Class’ component, I had enrolled the pupils onto my specific ‘Course’ on ‘Watering Systems’, and I had assigned specific tasks to the pupils. My plan was for the pupils to:
Logon to Glow
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Following a very productive and constructive training course last week, last night I finally managed to set some time aside to start working on my own Glow Learn project for the ‘Phase 3’ trial of the Glow portal.
I would like to emphasise, at this point in time, [...]
