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 [...]
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 [...]
We are now in our second week of an HMIe inspection at Knox Academy. This is our week of intensive observation.
Although my department was not chosen to be fully inspected, we were hoping that we would have the satisfaction of an HMIe visit.
Today was our/my lucky day! I was fortunate enough to have the [...]
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 [...]
The Biology Department at Knox Academy put on a fish dissection annually. We do this every February during a named lunchtime. We show the dissection under our video microscope on screen. It can sometimes be quite difficult to identify the various inner organs, so we have a prepared slide show on a second screen that [...]
This afternoon, five of my pupils, Dave Rawson and I had the great privilege of starring in a small training video clip. Glow is the new name for the Scottish Schools Digital Network. It is a national schools intranet, digitally linking Scotland’s 800,000 educators and pupils. This video clip will be used by RM [...]
My INT 1 Biology class and I are very excited. We have been asked by RM and LTS if we would like to take part in a small training video clip. This will take place at Knox Academy on Tuesday afternoon. The clip will illustrate our work and experiences of the Phase 1 2006 Glow [...]
I have been meaning to write a post on this topic for quite a while.
Having taught Biology and Science at every level of the curriculum, I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of a pupil’s ability, commitment and general enthusiasm for my subject. I can sincerely say that all SQA Biology courses [...]
With an HMI inspection looming, time is very tight. I feel confident that we will gain very good feed back.
However, I am starting to upload lots of jpegs onto flickr. These can be used by pupils and staff for projects. There are no copyrights so feel free to edit and distribute.
You will find the first sets for [...]
