The rollout of Glow is now well underway in East Lothian. We will be holding drop-in sessions at Prestonpans Education centre for staff. The first session will be this Monday (27th October) 4-5:30pm. The sessions will be run by David Gilmour and Elizabeth Cowan. I will be there after school.
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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 [...]
On Thursday, I along with the other Glow mentors attended the second day of our Mentor training. During the course of the day we learned about a number of components that make up Glow. This included some ‘hands-on’ sessions.
A lot of what we covered was not of new ground to me as I used most [...]
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 [...]
Something to lift us out of tonight’s horrible weather!
(Thanks to Mr W for the J-Peg)
Today I spent the day at Prestonpans Education Centre for Day 2 of our Glow Operational Training, and I am still buzzing!
As I you will be aware, there are two administrator roles in Glow. These are the Accounts [...]
Today I, along with eleven other colleagues, attended the first day of East Lothian’s Operational Training of the Glow portal. The training was run by Jamie Kirkwood, Stephen Forsyth and Paul Rooney from RM’s technical team and Martin Brown from Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS). As I mentioned in my last post, we were learning [...]
During the next two days we will be under ‘glow-ing’ our first formal Glow training here in East Lothian. The operational training will be given to twelve individuals from a range of key areas in education including: teachers, managers, technical and support staff.
Following this training we will begin working with our mentors in [...]
