The latest CfE and Glow News is now online and includes information on: National Qualifications, CfE, Promoting Diversity and Equality publication, revision support for NQ English and Maths, and information about forthcoming Glow TV events.
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Glow is evolving – March update
Maureen Gore, Education Scotland’s Assistant Director, Emerging Technologies, provides the latest update on the Glow Migration Project
We are delighted that every Glow user across Scotland will have free access to the latest Office365 web application suite including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote and Lync. Everyone can create and share learning and teaching resources which are then easily accessible both at school and at home. These tools will become available as each stakeholder migrates into the new environment.
The National Glow Team are currently working on simple step by step guides on using Glow to enhance learning and teaching. These examples will be based on learner/teacher scenarios setting out the use of the new Glow components, how they could be applied within a learning context to exemplify potential impact upon learning. This was done previously through Glow Cookbooks. Find out more on the Glow Scotland blog.
Co-Create Project films available on Creative Scotland website
Co-Create – A demonstration project in which 10 arts organisations worked together with schools to explore Glow’s potential to support innovative approaches to learning and teaching through the arts.
Co-Create (2009-11) was a pioneering initiative to bring arts education resources online for schools across Scotland through Glow. The project was set up by Creative Scotland in partnership with Education Scotland (then Learning and Teaching Scotland) to explore Glow’s potential to support innovative approaches to learning and teaching through the arts.
Co-Create enabled artists, performers, writers and Scotland’s schools to work and learn together in new ways, developing practice and demonstrating the key role the arts and creativity play in supporting Curriculum for Excellence.
A series of short case study films is now available on the Creative Scotland website:
Glow TV events coming up
The Vikings! at the National Museum of Scotland
4 March 2013, 2.00 pm
http://bit.ly/glowvikings
What were the Vikings really like? Fierce warriors in horned helmets or peaceful farmers and traders? Join experts at the National Museum of Scotland to explore some amazing real and replica Viking objects, which might help you to decide what they were like.
Assessment Community – Using Glow to Support Assessment
6 March, 2013, 8:20 am
http://bit.ly/usingglowforassessment
This is one of a series of Glow Meets taking place in the Assessment Community and will be hosted by Jem Anderson from the team. NB: This same event will also run on Thursday 7 March at 3.45 pm.
Scottish Children’s Book Awards Ceremony
7 March 1.30 pm
Celebrate World Book Day with the 1000-strong audience in the Caird Hall by watching the 2012 Scottish Children’s Book Awards Ceremony live in Glow.
There will be readings, music, illustration, Oscar-worthy drama performances, song, readings, interviews, all of the shortlisted authors and illustrators and of course, the announcement of the wining books as chosen by over 32,000 children across Scotland.
Women and Science in Scotland: Careers that Science can Offer
8 March, 11.30 am
On International Women’s Day on 8 March Glow TV will be going to the European Parliament in Edinburgh for a special event.
The event will feature a panel of speakers, all of whom studied science and have gone on to a range of different careers, talking about their experiences and what led them to study a science subject.
Daily What Newsround
8 March 2013, 11.00 am
Join us for another fun round up of the news with quizzes, missing words and a unique take on the week’s events. Melissa and Andrea with a special guest make the top stories accessible and enjoyable for young people. You might win one of our new “I made the News Today” Daily What badges for your contribution
For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule
(Glow login and password required)
National Singing Lesson on Glow TV
Scotland’s Still Singing, 27 February, 2.00 pm
Join Maeve Mackinnon and Innes Watson as they entertain us with Scots and Gaelic songs in this national singing lesson.
For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx
(Glow login and password required)
CfE and Glow News – February issue
The latest issue of CfE and Glow News includes information about Making Good Assessment Decisions, Taking a Closer Look at Assessment and Glow TV events.
Glow Meet with Julia Donaldson – Running on the Cracks
29th January at 1.45pm
The Tron Theatre will stage an exciting new show Running on the Cracks , an adaptation by Andy Arnold of the Julia Donaldson book of the same name. This new show will be staged in February 2013 and is a co-production with Pilot Theatre Company, York. Running on the Cracks is a fast moving new play about runaways, identity, survival and how friendships can develop in the strangest situations.
http://bit.ly/runningonthecracks
Join Julia Donaldson, children’s laureate for a Glow Meet live from the Tron for this exciting event. Julia will discuss her inspiration for the book and will answer your questions. Don’t miss this opportunity to speak with one of the UK’s leading children’s authors.
New website on Glow to support the new National Qualifications
Education Scotland is delighted to launch a dedicated website which will provide quick, secure and easy access to the range of web-based course materials being published to support the new National Qualifications. In addition, the site will also provide access to the popular series of Professional Focus Papers.
The website will be accessed via Glow (Glow log-in required), which is a recognised portal in Scottish Education for resources. Glow will, of course, also accommodate open and honest collaboration across the profession throughout Scotland, providing an ideal platform for practitioners to review and revise materials to suit their local requirements and share thoughts and ideas about materials.
We have been working very closely with ADES to co-ordinate the development and publication of these exemplar course materials across the full range of National 4 and National 5 qualifications, and further materials will be published over the coming months.
The course materials are being developed from a variety of sources and many are being developed locally in schools and local authorities. These are being shared nationally so that teachers can see what colleagues in other areas are preparing for their own contexts.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/nqcoursematerials (Glow log-in required)
ICT in Education Excellence Group Report published
The Education Secretary Michael Russell has welcomed a report by the ICT in Education Excellence Group. The Group, which was convened by the Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Muffy Calder at the request of the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, was asked to consider the future development of Glow, the national intranet for schools. Over the past five months the Group, which consists of IT and education specialists and end users, have visited schools across Scotland to look at the experience of using ICT for learning. Their final report makes recommendations to the Cabinet Secretary on how to ensure that future Glow is dynamic and remains relevant to its users for years to come.
Related blog posts:
Blog post by Professor Muffy Calder, Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland.
CfE and Glow News
Education Scotland’s CfE and Glow News e-update provides you with updates on Curriculum for Excellence and support for practitioners, along with all the latest developments within Glow:
Read the November issue of CfE and Glow News to find out about the following:
Curriculum for Excellence
National Qualifications – Professional Focus Papers now available
National Assessment Resource
Education Scotland’s Learning Blog – selection of posts
Education Scotland reports on the impact of staff qualifications on early years learning
Game On Scotland – the schools programme for 2014
Glow
Feedback on the RM Unify pilots
New interface for teaching staff accessing Glow – December 2012
ICT in Education Excellence Group – First thoughts discussion paper
Update on Glow and e-portfolios
Glow TV events coming up.
