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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, [...]

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 [...]

I meant to post this on Thursday- better late than never!
There was a really super article on Glow in The Independent. You can view the online version here. I still have my paper copy if anyone wants a loan.

It certainly has!- Very ‘theme 6‘ I think
Tomorrow will we will under go the first of our two days Glow Mentor training. We have twenty mentors in East Lothian. Among our mentors we have a wide variety of expertise. In addition to Primary and Secondary practitioners we also have support staff.
Andrew Brown and [...]

I haven’t had the time to do a lot of research on this; but pop over to Ian Usher’s Weblog.
Direct link here.
Interesting stuff…

For those of you that haven’t already heard, Neil Winton  is well under way planning TeachMeet North 19/02/2008, Perth, Scotland.
TeachMeet events really are one of the best ways of sharing good practice and networking.
Amongst the speakers is Andrew Brown from Learning and Teaching Scotland. Andrew is down to talk about:
 ‘Glow- Where are we now? -An update from around [...]

I have now had a chance to explore the RM ASUS MiniBook further. We have five of these machines in East Lothian. These are being trialled by a number of teaching staff. In addition to my recent post, here are a few more of my thoughts.
Here are a few of my notes- bearing in mind I am reflecting [...]

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 [...]