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Entries Tagged as 'Glow'

Monday, April 20th, 2009

STEP-ing Up…

It has been a good month since I updated my blog. As you know I have started my new Job as e-Learning Community Facilitator for The Scottish Traveller Education Programme (STEP).
STEP is based at Edinburgh University and funded by the Scottish Government. Its remit is to develop and support inclusive educational approaches for Scottish Travelling [...]

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

GlowMeet For Early Years

Following the success of the bird autopsy via GlowMeet , the Sea Bird Centre in North Berwick will be holding a second session. On Wednesday the 18th of March the Centre will host a GlowMeet especially for Early Years practitioners. Although the event is taking place in East Lothian, it is open to any authorities that [...]

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Bird Autopsy- Via GlowMeet!

As John Connell reported yesterday, an Autopsy was performed on a dead Fulmar bird by Dr Jan Andries Franeker, a senior scientist at the Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem studies in the Netherlands. It was broadcast via video (GlowMeet) on the Glow portal.
Yesterday my Higher Biology class and I were lucky enough to participate [...]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Facebook And Twitter

I have been meaning to write this post for a while- it is intended for those of you who would like to know a bit more about the benefits of using Facebook and Twitter.
For a few years now I have been using the social networking site Facebook; and I love it. It is my main [...]

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Glow Drop-in Sessions

 
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.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if [...]

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Glow Open Meeting

East Lothian Glow Open Meeting
Monday 26th of May 2008
4-5pm
Prestonpans Education Centre
This evening the team will be holding an open evening on Glow. Please feel free to come along and find out more. You can book your place by contacting Suzanne Todd on stodd@eastlothian.gov.uk

Friday, May 9th, 2008

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 [...]

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Some Thoughts For May.

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 [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Consolarium Glow Group

Derek Robertson has set up a Glow Group at National level for the Consalarium-
“If you are a teacher in Scotland and you have access to Glow then please feel free to join our national group. Just select this link, login and when the page appears click the ‘request access’ button”
I am hoping to use this group [...]

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Factoid 15: Sartorial?

I haven’t posted a factoid for a while so I thought I would share this. At the weekend I decided to take a trip to Marks and Spencer. I wasn’t really looking for anything in particular- just browsing when I stumbled across this tie…..
…..Well, I mean it would have been wrong not too
However, [...]