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John Swinney on Glow TV

Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills Mr John Swinney MSP will be leading a Glow TV broadcast on Monday the 29th August at 12.45pm.
The blog post below will give you details of how to register and how to submit a question before the event if you are unable to watch live on Monday.  The broadcast will be recorded so you will be able to view it in the Watch Again facility on Glow – we will send out this link after the event.
I’d encourage you to circulate this to colleagues and encourage them to send in any questions in advance as this is expected to be a popular broadcast.
 

A useful feature for pupils & teachers using e-Portfolios

GLOW BLOGS READER

Feature in Development

In the coming weeks there will be a Blogs release that will introduce aggregation functionality to the Glow Blogs service. This will allow teachers, students and non-teaching staff to see an aggregate view of latest blogs posts from blogs (public, private and Glow-only blogs) that they choose to follow. It will also be possible to group the aggregate view into different folders/groups which will make it easier for users to manage a large number of blogs that they are following.
This has been implemented in the form of  a plugin that will be activated across the network for all users.

The Glow blogs reader allows you to ‘follow’ a number of Glow Blogs. In following blogs you will be able to see which of these blogs has been updated in your dashboard rather than have to visit each site to check for updates.

We envisage that this feature will be particularly useful to teachers whose pupils are using the Glow Blogs e-Portfolios.

Click on this link below to get more information on this upcoming feature:  Glow Blogs Help

Glow usage in Stirling and Clacks exceeds 100,000 sessions!

Glow usage in Stirling & Clackmannanshire establishments exceeded 100,000 sessions in January 2016!

Over the last year, the number of  monthly Glow sessions has increased by more than 4000%

In January 2016,  Glow was accessed nearly 3700 times every day!

In 16 months since September 2014, when the 20#20 Strategy Group identified the central critical role of Glow, the number of active Glow users has increased from less than 100 to almost 4000

Glow Usage

Share Your Learning…with Scotland!

There are now many schools in Stirling & Clacks using the Glow Blogs webspace to host their school websites.  There are also many classes blogging about their learning activities.

#ShareOurLearning is a place where class blogs across Scotland can share what they are learning.

Class Bloggers can choose which of their posts to share.  By simply categorising or tagging you posts with shareourlearning and registering here, any posts you categorise or tag will show up on the national site.

How to Join In

  1. You need a publicly accessible blog.
  2. You decide to use either a category or tag on your blog.
  3. Make a post you want to share or find an old one. Add the category or tag. For example  shareourlearning
  4. Once your post is published click on this link, go to the national site and fill in the form on this page: Share Out Learning
  5. Your posts that are tagged (or categorised) will be automatically added to the #ShareOurLearning site.

Digital Media Literacy – Do you know?

Should we have a “huge distrust of the increasing use of ‘brands’ in education which leads to increasing competition between the ‘haves’ and further disadvantage among the ‘have nots’?”

Dean Groom discusses…

https://deangroom.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/media-literacy-5-key-concepts-to-teach-this-year/

There are FIVE things that kids need to know about and apply.

  1. All media messages are constructed.
  2. Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules.
  3. Different people experience the same media message differently.
  4. Media have embedded values, opinions, and points of view.
  5. Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power.

Pupil e-Portfolio Update

The e-Portfolio Plugin Version 1.0 has been released.  Pupils can now set up an e-Portfolio by selecting e-Portfolio from a popup on the Create Blog page. Existing blogs can gain the functionality by activating the e-Portfolio plugin.The old portfolio themes are no longer available in the theme picker.

The e-Portfolio plugin make creating a profile from a series of posts much simpler. There is a new Taxonomy ‘Profile Tags’ which control which posts appear on the profile. Pupils can create as many profiles as they like.

A series of help pages are available on using the e-Portfolio Plugin.

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This release also add the ability to embed Sways in a blog by pasting in the url to the sway: Example post.

Q – I have been trying to set up new e-portfolios but cannot find my local authority theme?

A – The various LA themes have been disabled for new blogs as the e-portfolios have been changed to use a plugin rather than a theme:
Help for the new system is here:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/e-portfolios/

News posted about the e-portfolios:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/tag/e-portfolios/

Get in touch  with John Johnston if you need more information: gw09johnstonjohn4@glowmail.org.uk

Glow Blog Website Christmas Roundup

Education Scotland Learning Blog

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/

National #ShareOurLearning Blog

This blog collects learning automatically sent in by class blogs from around Scotland.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/shareourlearning/

Scranalogue – The SCRAN Culture Heritage Learning Blog

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/scranblog/

STEM Central

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/STEMcentralinmotion/

 

Stirling & Clacks networking & resource sharing Blogs

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/sctech4learning/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/cl/sandcnumeracy/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/stirclacklingo/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/braeheadlanguagescafe/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/cl/asnsupportservice/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/futurepathways/

 

Stirling & Clacks School Websites

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/dunblaneprimary/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/crianlarichps/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/BridgeofAllanPrimarySchool/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/borestoneprimary/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/cambusbarronps/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/strathyreprimaryschool/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/callanderps/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/croftamienursery1/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/FallinPrimary/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/buchlyvieprimary/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/stmarysbannockburn/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/cl/clackmannanprimary/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/cl/strathdevonprimary/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/cl/deerparkprimaryschool/

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/cl/parkprimaryschool/

 

Stirling Blogs Home:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/st/saml2/home

Clacks Blogs Home:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/cl/saml2/home

Scotland Blogs Home:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/saml2/home

 

 

Looking for useful resources and examples of good practice?

Go to http://edublogawards.com/2015-finalists/ to vote on the best edublogs of 2015…

…but also consider that all of these blogs have been nominated for being the best in each category.  So it makes sense to visit the blogs and see what help, resources or examples of good practice can be found in each.

The blogs/sites are categorised, so click on a link and see where it takes you…

Categories

  1. Best new blog
  2. Best group blog
  3. Best class blog
  4. Best student blog
  5. Best ed tech / resource sharing blog
  6. Best teacher blog
  7. Best library / librarian blog
  8. Best administrator blog
  9. Most influential blog post of the year
  10. Best individual tweeter
  11. Best individual blog

Best New Blog

Best Group Blog

Best Class Blog

Best Student Blog

Best Ed Tech / Resource Sharing

Best Teacher Blog

Best Library Blog

Best Administrator Blog

Most Influential Blog Post

Best Individual Tweeter

Best Individual Blog