{"id":1531,"date":"2012-07-10T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2012-07-13T08:25:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T08:25:44","slug":"new-glow-excellence-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"New GLOW Excellence Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A new ‘Excellence Group’ has been announced by Cabinet Secretary Mike Russell to consider the future direction of GLOW.\u00a0 It certainly seems like a group constituted to think big and to be creative, leading us to think that the recent GLOW agreement with Microsoft and their “365” suite of tools may not yet indicate our long term direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As well as the most outspoken critic of “old GLOW” in Jaye Richards-Hill, the group contains the BBC’s favourite ICT teaching advisor Stephen Heppell as well as Argyll “old boy” Ewan MacIntosh noted for his promotion of future thinking around social networking and use of mobile devices.\u00a0 Charlie Love, who has created a brilliant rival to GLOW, “Glew.org.uk”, is a surprising, but probably inspired inclusion indicating that everyone who has something to offer is being listened to.\u00a0 The full list is as follows:<\/p>\n