Author Archives: S. Sey

Setting up your School iPads

When you have received your school iPads it is important that they are set up correctly.

Teacher iPads are password protected and can go home with the teacher or go on school trips.

Pupil iPads are not password protected and cannot leave the school.

You need to create an iTune account for Free Apps. If you are in a Primary school then you may only require the one account and you can set up the iPads to sync the apps onto them all. If you are in an Academy school then I would suggest setting up faculty iTune accounts for Free Apps. Again, the apps can sync onto all the iPads linked to the same faculty iTune account.

Please click on the link below to access guidance for setting up a Free iTune Account.

How to set up a Free iTune Account

Please click on the link below to access guidance to enable Automatic Downloads for apps on your iPads.

Setting up your school iPads

When you get to the point where you would like to buy apps then please log a call with susan.sey@aberdeenshire.gov.uk who will create an Apple Volume Purchasing Account for your school. I will add another post re the Apple Volume Purchasing Programme for Education.

Glow Data Sharing in Seemis

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There is a new feature within Seemis called the Glow Data Sharing field. This has been added so pupils and staff can opt out of having an account created in Glow. The majority of the time this field is ticked to Opt In by default. However, it has come to out attention that this isn’t always the case. Therefore, if you find that an account isn’t coming through to Glow then please check that this field is ticked.

Instructions on how to do this can be found by clicking on the link below. This will take you to a PDF supplied by the National Seemis Team. Please check from Page 2 onward for info re the above process.

https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/3330021/abdglowsupport/Shared%20Documents/Admin%20Docs/Glow%20Data%20Sharing.pdf

Computing across the curriculum using BBC Micro:bits

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Computing across the curriculum using BBC Micro:bits Webinar > Wednesday 9th Nov 16:00- 16:30

These devices were issued (or are in the process of being issued) to all S2 pupils in Scotland. Find out how they can be using across the curriculum by registering for the webinar.

If you don’t have any but would like to use them with your class then they can be ordered at a cost of £13 each.

// Computing across the curriculum with BBC micro:bits

Introducing Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Stephen Richards
The focus will not be on using devices but on teaching and learning in the subject and using devices to support learning and boost engagement where and when it might be appropriate.
How to utilise micro:bits in your own classroom
Q & A

Click on the link below to register

https://info.microsoft.com/UK-MSFT-WBNR-FY17-11Nov-09-ComputingacrossthecurriculumwithBBCmicrobits-272322_Registration.html?wt.mc_id=AID553315_QSG_28820

Battle of the Somme on Glow TV

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Battle of the Somme | Glow

Join live on Thursday 10th November at 10.30am from the Imperial War Museum to find out more about the Battle of the Somme which took place 100 years ago.

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme- one of bloodiest conflicts of the First World War and subject of the world’s first full-length war documentary, filmed in 1916. In the first three months of its release the film was seen by around 20 million people in Britain and Ireland, informing and challenging the public with its images of warfare and changing the way both cinema and film was perceived.

In the Glow TV event we will we shall be showing excerpts from this iconic film, accompanied by an 8 minute background piece produced by Dr Toby Haggith from the Imperial War Museum, followed by a live Q&A session with Dr Haggith. This will help pupils prepare for Letters Home, this year’s competition run by Poppyscotland, which asks pupils to write a letter home as if from the trenches of The Somme.

Click here for more information and your chance to register,

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OneNote Learning Tools

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Making it easier to read and write

The Learning Tools for OneNote help everyone improve their reading and writing skills, including gifted learners, students with learning differences or a combination of any of the broad range of unique student abilities.

These tools include: Comprehension support, background colour, line spacing, can distinguish between nouns, verbs and adjectives and many more features.

More info can be found via the link below.

https://www.onenote.com/learningtools

Please note the following two prerequisites:

Cannot be installed on computers running Office 2010.

The dictation tool will only be included with computers running Windows 10.

If you would like installed on your classroom computer(s) then please log a call with IT via Ask Fred. Just state the asset number of the computer(s) and the add-on is call OneNote Learning Tools.

Creating Teaching Groups in Glow, Office 365 and WordPress Blogs

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I have finally got round to creating a guide for the above task.

This will make things easier to share in Glow with just a class rather than individually or by year group.

Please log into Glow and then click the link below.

Creating Teaching Groups in Glow

Scholar Tile

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Issue resolved 31/10/2016 17:00

Please note that there is a known issue with the Scholar tile on RM Unify.

This is an issue at the Scholar side and they are working on a fix.

I will update this post when the issue has been resolved.

Seemis and Glow Issue

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Issue now resolved

We have identified an issue with data migrating from Seemis to Glow. This means that any new data entered in Seemis will not come through to Glow. The Glow Data Feed is also affected. The National Seemis team are looking into this matter and I’ll update this post when the issue has been resolved.