Another great training session was held at St Barbara’s Primary School Annexe in Muirhead on Thursday 17th February. This was Day 1 for the people taking the sessions 17th and 22nd Feb. The session looked mostly at using Glow Groups for Virtual Campus and Transition Projects but also had a quick look at Glow wikis.

14 staff attended from across the following schools:

• Bellshill Academy
• Brannock HS
• Chryston HS
• Greenfaulds HS
• St Aidan’s HS
• St Andrew’s HS
• St Margaret’s HS

The participants had varying levels of familiarity with Glow from people who had only logged in before and classed themselves as non-users to those who are regularly using Glow for learning and teaching. However, all seemed to enjoy the training session. It was difficult at one point to get people to stop for lunch!

Some quotes from the evaluations will give you an idea of the experience for the participants:

 I would like more help with uploading videos, creating discussions for particular classes, class tutorials via video links. I Would like to see how pupils can submit their work and how this can be monitored.

I felt that all the training was very useful . There was a good balance of discussion and hands-on . It was very helpful to have immediate access to help whan problems arose . The training has definately improved my confidence in using glow.

I certainly see much more use in Glow now that I have uploaded resources for pupils. I see it as a very useful tool for certificated classes but I will need to spend some time adapting it for S1-S2.

Here are some of the things participants are looking forward to doing using Glow:

Glow page for all of S1 and S2 to access resouces and homework. Learning Intentions for my own classes. Advanced Higher Graphic Communication resouces for self study.

Initially I would like to set up glow groups for each course within my my department and eventually to move towards a Virtual campus if possible.

The first of the groups of training days was held at St Barbara’s Primary School Annexe in Muirhead on Thursday 10th February. This was Day 1 for the people taking the sessions 10th and 17th Feb. The session looked mostly at using Glow Groups for Virtual Campus and Transition Projects but also had a quick look at Glow wikis.

We were delighted that 12 staff attended from across the following schools:

• Brannock HS
• Calderhead HS
• Chryston HS
• Greenfaulds HS
• St Aidan’s HS
• St Andrew’s HS
• St Margaret’s HS

The participants had varying levels of familiarity with Glow from people who had only logged in before and classed themselves as non-users to those who are regularly using Glow for learning and teaching.

Some quotes from the evaluations will give you an idea of the experience for the participants:

 I feel that the presentation was paced well and the delivery was great. I feel that there was a lot to take in, but it certainly has opened my mind to the capabilities that Glow can offer.

Excellent day that gave me a significant amount of help, ideas and food for thought.

Excellent day I came here rather unconvinced about glow but my understanding of the pages and ideas of what can be achieved is clearer

Course was realy fast paced but very helpful. Provided a great stimulus for developing my own materials – lots to think about!!

Thank you so much – all very clearly put and I was not made to feel stupid which I really appreciate!

What a great bunch of people came along and we look forward to working with you all in Tier 3 – take note, the other courses have a lot to live up to!

Cheers,
Karen-Ann

The dates for the training are now finalised and it looks as though we have staff from all of the schools lined up against specific dates.

It will be a fast paced 2 days with lots to get through but it will act as a taster for what’s to come in the Tier 3 support sessions in each school. Remember that we can go back over anything that was covered in the Tier 2 sessions and spend time with individuals in Tier 3. We can also work with you and your classes to help take them through using Glow. More on Tier 3 to follow.

We have changed over some of the dates in our offering for Tier 2 training. They now comprise the following sessions:

It looks as though we now have final staff names and numbers for each of the sessions. Thanks to all the hard work going on with the school co-ordinators in identifying staff and managing to free them up to come along to the courses at this busy time of the year.

I’ll be sending out the full list of names to everyone involved and also getting in touch with the staff ahead of their training dates to ask them to complete a short pre-training task. Information will also be available in the Glow Projects in NLC Group.