Glow Meet is Glow’s web conferencing tool. It has been upgraded and now uses a globally-popular software- Adobe Connect. The tool allows you to share documents, talk to a presentation and has collaborative tools like polls, surveys and chat. Glow TV uses Adobe connect, so a good start would be to watch one of the many recordings in Glow TV and see how it is used.
Here’s a video guide to Adobe Connect for e-learning from Adobe themselves:
And here are some help guides, specifically for Glow:
This help guide assumes you are joining a Glow Meet that someone else has set up and you are joining to take part without worrying about how to set the room up.
If you are setting up a Glow Meet room for others to join then this guide will help you with that.
The role you have in a Glow Meet is determined by the permissions you have in the Glow group where the Glow Meet room is situated. Users with Reader or Readers with Discussions permissions in the group will be Participants in the Glow Meet room.
The meeting will be managed by a user with Administrator permissions in the Glow group. They will have the role of Host in the meeting room.
The document below outlines how to join the Glow Meet and get yourself set up and ready to work with others.
If you want to find out more about the room layout and how the Glow Meet links in to the Glow Group then the document below will assist with that.
Education Scotland has been working with ADES to co-ordinate development and publication of exemplar learning and teaching materials for staff to use when working towards a qualification at National 4 and 5.
These materials are being developed from a variety of sources, with many being developed locally in schools and local authorities. Materials will be available for all N4 and N5 qualifications by spring 2013.
The materials provide suggestions on approaches to teaching and learning which will promote development of the necessary knowledge, understanding and skills for each subject and level.
Another superb resource for pupils and staff alike, Gigajam allows you to study online to learn various musical instruments.
Gigajam is a unique, interactive method of learning to play a musical instrument. Gigajam includes over 100 multimedia lessons, instructional videos of each exercise, award-winning interactive play-along software, and real-time analysis of your playing.
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How Gigajam lessons work
Read easy to follow lesson notes.
Watch videos of exercises and techniques.
Play your instrument alongside our pre-recorded, professional band while Gigajam Xtractor software records exactly what you play.
Gigajam Analyzer software reviews your performance and shows you exactly what to work on to improve your technique.
Gigajam is provided free to Scottish schools by Education Scotland as part of Glow.
Class Clips is the BBC’s archive of educational video and audio material for use in primary and secondary schools. Working with teachers across the UK, the best of current BBC programmes and back catalogue of schools television and radio the best range of clips to help with classroom teaching are chosen.
There are currently more than 10,000 clips in the Class Clips archive, all searchable by level, subject, topic and keyword and all accompanied by notes from teachers on the content and how it could be used.
From major factual series such as:
Wonders of the Universe
Human Planet
and A History of Scotland through to old favourites like Around Scotland and See You See Me, clips cover a wide range of subjects across all age levels, many with broad potential for cross curricular learning.
Class Clips is also home to new, specifically-created educational video.
Talkie Time
is a set of innovative videos for Early and First levels, that let you and your class interact with on-screen characters while learning about Numeracy, Literacy and Health and Wellbeing. Blethering Scots features famous faces discussing Scots language and its place in history, poetry, media and the playground.
All content on Class Clips is free to access and can be streamed directly into class. We’re also in the process of making all our clips embeddable, making it even easier to include them in blogs and web pages.
To find out what clips are available to help with your classes, visit Class Clips and start searching.
Scran is a charity & online learning resource base with over 360,000 images & media from museums, galleries, archives and the media. If you haven’t had a play around with scran, you might be surprised by the gems that can be found. There are thousands of useful photos and bits of audio and video, as well as full learning packs that can be used as an independent resource.
English Teacher?
A great example of the kind of resources that could prove very useful is some excellent Edwin Morgan content that English teachers will find extremely useful. There are audio recordings, images and video all related to, arguably, the most popular Scottish poet taught in our secondary schools.
Art or Design?
Scran also has numerous learning content packs and associated resources on modern-day designers such as Alessi and there is a wealth of content related to the study of Art and Art history and design through the ages.
Video Introduction *remember that you access through Glow, not the method outlined in video!
J2E offers a whole set of online software tools just for schools and it’s all available for FREE through Glow. This is just the kind of addition to Glow that you are missing out on if you do not use your Glow account.
Here’s a nice video introduction to ONE of the many tools J2E offers through Glow:
The Daily What News is a top quality Glow resource that your account gives you access to.
A news service just for schools in Scotland, The Daily What News provides a sophisticated and interactive news service for Glow users, with articles written by a specialist news content editor especially for a schools’ audience. Articles are published every school day and there are two versions of each article. In addition, three articles each week which are published in Gaelic.
The articles are arranged in news categories and are tagged according to CfE subjects and experiences and outcomes. The articles are archived and searchable from the main homepage, giving users a rich learning resource that offers learners the opportunity to make meaningful and relevant connections across different curricular areas. Many of the articles feature an interactive activity that provides Glow account holders with a fun way to extend or cement users’ learning on the story’s topic. Users can also use their Glow logins to take part in forum discussion topics for each article.
Teachers will find the Teachers’ Area Blog an excellent resource. Beneath each daily news article there is a link to a blog post that provides Glow users with a wealth of lesson ideas and suggestions for several curricular areas from the one news story. The posts are written by a specialist education content editor who links the news story to CfE outcomes and experiences and provides links to other interesting and relevant content.
A recent article in the Sport category focused upon Rangers’ fans’ trip to Manchester and how their behaviour was better than on a previous occasion that had led to trouble in the city centre. The article would surely be a popular one with young people and, because they are known for their reluctance in reading, it is of note that it would be of particular appeal to boys. There is even an interactive activity attached to this article which invites learners to test their knowledge of SPL club nicknames. What better way to engage reluctant learners in purposeful and relevant learning? In theTeachers’ Blog, lesson suggestions were offered in a number of CfE subject areas (Social studies, Health +Wellbeing, English+Literacy) and links were provided to video content and discussion stimuli that would encourage even the most reluctant learner to engage with such relevant and meaningful subject matter.
This is, of course, just one example. There is already a good stock of interesting content on the site, with stories ranging in topic from the floods in Pakistan, for a World focus, to how young people made an impression on the Scottish Parliament, for a story that is closer to home. Each school day sees another story added to the archive, so we are building a wealth of content that Glow users can benefit from.
Whatever the story’s subject-matter, it is always the case that it will be written in a manner that is appealing and relevant to our learners. Add to that the interactive activities and lesson suggestions in the teachers’ blog, and you might just find thatThe Daily What News is just what you have been looking for!
Here’s an Our Cloud video guide to give you a guided tour:
If you don’t use Glow TV regularly in your classroom, you probably want to check it out!
Glow TV has several programmes on every single school day and over 18 months worth of recorded content that can be ‘watched again’ at a time that suits you and your class. Programme themes cover a whole host of interest areas on topics such as: CfE, SQA, GTC, HMIE, Literacy, Numeracy, Health and Wellbeing, Glowing Thursdays, World of Work Wednesdays, Creativity, Games Design, Daily What Newsround and just about every curricular area. There is sure to be lots of great content that you can find useful.
The ‘Watch Again’ facility is a bit like the online efforts of the major TV channels. There is an easy to use area in Glow that allows you to browse all recorded programmes by category and watch them when it suits you. It also allows you to add programmes to your own, personal, schedule when you register for events so that you can keep track of your own planning.
Signing-up for these events/programmes is easier now, too. Instead of having to complete a sign-up form for every event you want to take part in, all you have to do is register once for Glow TV and then choose your username from a drop-down list whenever you wish to sign-up to a specific event. Easy.
A lot of the LIVE programmes include live debate/discussion on important topics in Education, as well as many online training programmes and experiences for young people to collaborate and interact with presenters.
So, with a whole schedule of programmes you can tailor to your own personal guide, easy sign-up and channel categories to make it easy to find recordings and watch again, Glow TV is a brilliant addition to Glow’s assets.
To register for Glow TV and then be able to have your own personal schedule and easy sign-up for programmes, click here.
Logging into Glow needn’t pose a problem for you, as long as you use Glow regularly and remember your login details, or if you keep a note of your username and password.
Every single school pupil and teacher in Perth and Kinross has a Glow account and it should not be difficult for you to make use of the many resources that are available through Glow.
Yes, Glow has had its critics, but this has been to do with creating content, rather than using the wealth of excellent resources that your account gives you access to.
Password tips:
The easiest way to meet Glow’s password policy is to use two words, separated by a space. For pupils, this could be as simple as using two words like ‘red’ and ‘bus’, separated by hitting the space bar. Just use two words that you will always remember and separate them with the space bar.
Pupils need 7 characters in total (so red space bus meets that) and staff need 8 characters in total, so just add a four letter word and a three letter word, with the space in the middle. Easy.
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