Category Archives: glow
Science, maths and geography
Twig on Glow – free resources for Scottish schools
Twig World is an award winning online resource that brings learning to life. Mapped to Curriculum for Excellence, Twig now offers over 800 short films and a vast library of support material for science, maths and geography.
Twig on Glow includes all content from Glow Science as well as new materials. Glow Science will continue to be available until January 2013.
Edinburgh International Book Festival and Glow TV
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/07/02/edinburgh-international-book-festival-and-glow-tv/
This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival RBS School Programme is bigger than ever before. It runs from 20th – 28th August in Charlotte Square Edinburgh and many events are live in Glow TV! It’s also truly international with writers from Australia, Canada, the USA, France and Poland as well as from all parts of the UK.
Schools IT excellence group set up
The Scottish Government has announced that Education Secretary Michael Russell has appointed the Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Muffy Calder to convene an ICT Excellence Group to consider the future development of the schools’ intranet ‘Glow’.
The new ICT Excellence Group will draw on the experience and expertise of end-users, and educational technology experts to scope the long-term user-centred future of Glow.
The group members are as follows: Prof Muffy Calder, Prof Ian Sommerville, Prof Mike Sharples, Mr Ewan McIntosh, Mr Charlie Love, Prof Bill Buchanan, Mr Hamish Budge, Prof Jeff Haywood, Mr Neil Winton, Mr Tony Rafferty, Mr Fraser Speirs, Ms Jaye Richards Hill and Mr Martin Dewar who will facilitate the involvement of two school pupils in the group.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/07/schools05072012
http://www.engageforeducation.org/2012/07/glow-schools-it-excellence-group-set-up/
Edinburgh International Book Festival and Glow TV
This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival RBS School Programme is bigger than ever before. It runs from 20th – 28th August in Charlotte Square Edinburgh and many events are live in Glow TV! It’s also truly international with writers from Australia, Canada, the USA, France and Poland as well as from all parts of the UK.
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/07/02/edinburgh-international-book-festival-and-glow-tv/
Glow Scotland blog: End of term news from Glow
Includes:
- Introduction from Kenneth Muir
- Glow: What’s Next?
- Q&A Development.
Click here for more info!
Have you used Glow Science yet?
Glow Science includes over 650 short films that hundreds of teachers are using to enrich and support their teaching in the sciences and technologies. Tailored to Curriculum for Excellence – and tagged to levels 2, 3 and 4 – the films provide teachers with accurate and engaging visuals for the teaching of science, technology, and health and wellbeing.
All resources are free with your Glow log-in.
Have you used Glow Science yet?
Glow Science includes over 650 short films that hundreds of teachers are using to enrich and support their teaching in the sciences and technologies. Tailored to Curriculum for Excellence – and tagged to levels 2, 3 and 4 – the films provide teachers with accurate and engaging visuals for the teaching of science, technology and health and wellbeing.
All resources are free with your Glow log-in.
Creative Connections Fife 2012 – An Early Years Gathering
Fife pupils mark Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
PRIMARY 7 pupils from across Dunfermline welcomed Margaret Dean, Lord Lieutenant of Fife, to St Margaret’s Primary School to launch a website that pupils across Fife will be able to contribute to, to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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