Good Morning,

Mr Howie joined us this morning to introduce new features to us. We used the Chromebooks however you can use any device, including Apple products, at home to use these features and we would be encouraging the children to do so.

The main feature of today’s learning was Yammer. Yammer is a controlled social media group for ONLY the class and nobody else can contact or speak to the children. It can only be used by 3.11 and myself. We learnt a lot and some of it was quite confusing but once we were on, it was great! The children were very excited. Please not this should only be used in an appropriate manner and not for general chat amongst the children. Our main goal is to put our solo talk powerpoints onto glow through Yammer and that is all.

Step 1: Log onto Glow. This can be used on ANY device and the children require usernames which are in their diaries and passwords which they know as it is one that we use in school.

Step 2: Next, you click onto the Orange tile named Office 365 Home.

Step 3: Then, you will see a range of tiles and to get onto Yammer, you click on the ‘Y’ which is on the tile and has Yammer written below.

Step 4: On the left hand side, you will see an area titled Glow Scotland Groups. Beneath that is the Group named P3.11 Mearns. This is the group the children MUST ONLY access as this is where they can view and see their class.

To add your Solo Talk PowerPoint to Glow, you must follow Step 1-4 and then the following:

Step 5: On the right hand side, you will see a section titled Info. Below this is a link which will direct the children to 3.11 Solo Talk Folder where they can drag and drop their PowerPoint or they can upload it to this section.

Reminder: The local area homework is due on Friday 24th March along with spelling and the Solo talks must be prepared for Monday 27th March along with the Easter bonnets. I will clear a space In the classroom for these.

Many thanks,

Miss Pervaiz