Live stream from New York begins tonight at 5.30pm their time – 10.30pm our time. Speakers include:

Charles Segars, CEO, Ovation
Sir Ken Robinson, author and expert in the field of creativity
Deepak Chopra, Founder, The Chopra Foundation
Vice Admiral Michael H. Miller, Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy
Bruce Vaughn, Chief Creative Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering

The event carries over across the next two days.

http://lciweb.lincolncenter.org/imagination-summit/

Education Scotland would like to invite creative Glow Users to join us for a focused five day online networking event.

8th – 12th August 2011

5 days – 5 simple challenges

Creative Learning Networks – Creativity Portal Partners – Education Scotland

Is It Creative?
A five day online discussion around creativity and learning.

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/Creative%20Learning%20Scotland/Is%20It%20Creative/default.aspx

Using Glow, the Creativity Forum and Glow Meet we will engage in debate and discussion around creativity and its use in the classroom and community centre, its value and definition, and the opportunities and obstacles to sharing the agenda with our partners and colleagues in education.

There will be Glow Meets at specific times – especially for those who have never tried Glow Meet before or are slightly afraid – and CPD sessions on the Creativity Portal and associated Glow tools. Outside of these the Creativity Forum and Glow Meet will be available throughout the week for you to share and discuss whenever you have the time or something to say.

This is an ideal opportunity to:

Gain confidence and knowledge in Glow Meet.
Gain confidence in Glow Forum.
Network with national creative organisations and Creative Learning Networks – ‘face to face’.
Contribute to the ongoing national debate around creativity and learning.
Leave a valuable resource behind for teachers and educators to reference when thinking about the role of creativity in their work.

For anyone who is lucky enough to be on holiday that week you can always contribute to the Creativity Forum and Creativity Archive before or after the week.

Do let us know if you will be joining us at any point during the week – we would love to hear from you. You can introduce yourself on the Glow Group itself or email Stephen at stephen.bullock@educationscotland.gov.uk

http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2011/07/13/education-blog-awards/

The Education Blog Awards celebrate blogging in schools across the  UK.  Blogging can be incredibly inspirational learning resource  to both  pupils and teachers.  Two of the winners from the 2011 awards have blogs set up on Glow.

Joint 3^rd place in the Class Blog of the Year was PS3 Superstars, the blog of primary 3 at Warddykes Primary School in Arbroath.  The judges commented that the blog was “A lovely and powerful view into the world of the P3 Superstars documenting their learning journey from toothpaste advertising to cliff rescue!”

http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2011/June/2011-06-27-05.htm

The Highland Council reports that pupils from seven Highland primary schools are meeting at Eden Court, Inverness this week to view the results of their documentary film making. Over the last year The Highland Council’s, Education Culture and Sport Service ran a cross curricular initiative for pupils and teachers. They had the opportunity to work with professional film makers from arts company Wildbird, to learn the skills and techniques involved in creating a documentary for video.

The pupils worked intensively to develop their own documentary videos and were involved in every stage of the creative process, from: selecting the subject and locations; creating story boards and scripts; designing interview questions; conducting interviews; operating the technical equipment such as cameras, lighting and sound; selecting appropriate music; and making animations and editing the work.

A new link has been added to the Creativity Portal:

A website devised by young people to inspire interest in contemporary art amongst their peers, offer insight into the workings of the professional art world and, most importantly, be an online community for young people to showcase their work. —View