This afternoon I had my first ‘play’ with the Glow portal since June.
Here in East Lothian Dave Rawson (East Lothian’s Glow Implementation Officer) has been working away planning and testing. It is not just as simple as one might think. There are huge implications for the Authority. One of our primary decisions involves the ‘switching’ [...]
Last night saw this month’s EduBuzz open meeting. As I mentioned on Sunday, these meetings are open to anyone who has a genuine interest in East Lothian’s EduBuzz online community. The meeting was chaired by Don Ledingham (Head of Education in East Lothian)
Here is a brief summary of my notes:
EduBuzz Front Page- The front page [...]
The platform that supports EduBuzz is called Wordpress. On Friday I ran a session on ‘Online Publishing’ at the Musselburgh Grammar School Teachmeet. One particular set of resources that I directed staff towards was the Wordpress tutorials that Andrew Brown has developed. Although they are based upon a single user platform, the majority of the footage [...]
It was great to hear that the portal has gone live and is successfully being used in Lairdsland Primary in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire.
Here in East Lothian, We are starting to look at the technical side of things and the integration of email and phoenix etc. I am hoping to have my login details soon as [...]
In September I was successfully appointed as Temporary ‘Education Support Officer’ for East Lothian Council. This post is an internal secondment. Once my teaching position at Knox Academy has been temporarily filled I will start my new post. This will be based at John Muir House in Haddington. During this secondment I will be working along [...]
Congratulations to my colleague and fellow Glow Mentor, Dave Rawson. Dave has been appointed as East Lothian’s Glow Implementation Officer.
Dave will be beginning his new role in the very near future. I am looking forward to working with Dave over the year during the formal Implementation of the intranet in East Lothian.
I am sure Dave [...]
As always, this weekend has been manically busy. However, I have finally found the time to catch up with my online reading and writing. I was aware that this week’s copy of the TES was to contain an article on Glow, which it does. I was not expecting this, however. If you haven’t read this [...]
Today was a very happy and long awaited day for all at Knox Academy. Today we were finally converted to our high speed Wide Area Network (WAN). This conversion ultimately means that the speed and capacity of our Internet connection has dramatically increased. Prior to this up-grade, connecting to the Internet and school server could [...]
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 [...]
Back in January, I invited readers and others to join me on FaceBook. FaceBook is a form of Social Media that, in my opinion. Is far superior to Bebo. FaceBook was created by a group of Harvard undergraduates. Originally you required a valid Matriculation number to join, though now it is open to anyone. Unlike [...]
