What gorgeous weather!
What a great start to the Easter break.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of my intentions during the break was to replace my existing online tutoring service with Glow. Prior to the break, I had created the revision Glow group, uploaded a number of relevant documents and issued my pupils with [...]
When working hard, Horses sweat, men perspire and lady (mentors)….
It has been a long day (my apologies if this post doesn’t read too well).
Aside to collating pupil SQA folios and teaching today, I was really pleased to meet with Elizabeth Cowan (EL Council) and our LTS Educationalist Dawn Adams at Knox. As I [...]
Today saw the first usage of the ‘Phase2’ trial of the Glow portal at Knox. Period 1, this morning, my INT1 Biologists logged on; I would like to add- with great ease! The passwords that we were issued for this trial are far more user friendly. Though I cannot name pupils individually, I was very [...]
Having now accessed the portal from both school and home, Dave and I are getting on well with catagorising and collating Usernames, Passwords, Glow Groups and member privileges. We have also made a start at implementing and assigning Glow tools, though this will really need to be completed when we are together in person (Skype [...]
Unit 3 of the SQA Intermediate 1 Biology is all about ‘Growing Plants’ Last week my INT1 Biologists and I planted some (100) sunflower seeds (I was estimating a germination percentage of 50). Prior to planting the seeds, we had looked at seed structure and composition.
As an ongoing project, I have been uploading the [...]
Following today’s meeting Dave and I met so we could make a start on organising usernames and passwords. After Dave established how to find these, I decided to do a bit of further investigation.
Initially, the portal looked like it hadn’t changed much. However, this afternoon I was able to browse the various pages [...]
Today I attended the East Lothian’s second Glow Mentor’s meeting of 2007. During the meeting this morning, we discussed many issues surrounding the forth-coming Phase 2 trial of Glow. The issues we discussed included:
Training of Mentors
Use of online tools
Remote access of the portal
The use of the materials we are developing (i.e. CPD sessions on podcasting/digital [...]
This week has been as busy as always. Besides collating pupil folio material and Second Year report writing, I thought I would write a little post on the latest developments of Glow. As you may be aware, Knox Academy was chosen to pilot the Second Phase of Glow. This week, Dave and I have had [...]
Tomorrow I am going to attend BarCamp.
‘BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees’.
If you are interested in the latest digital technologies and you think you have something to contribute, why [...]
I received excellent news this morning. I just couldn’t wait until I got home today so I thought I would write a quick post during my morning break. Glow is coming back for phase 2. I am very pleased and excited to say that Knox Academy will be involved in the phase 2 pilot. This [...]
