Andrew Brown of the LTScotland Glow Team will set the ball rolling by asking the question “Can we do CfE without online CPD?” He will demonstrate a range of professional learning using online technology and get the 1st of the collegiate sessions underway.
Colleagues from a range of national organisations such as HMIE, SQA, GTCS and DTS have kindly agreed to share the stage and demo and discuss their existing online CPD provision and their plans for the future. Colleagues taking part are:
Each will demonstrate their current online CPD provision, outline their plans/thoughts/expectations for the future and take some time to focus on their role in CPD for CfE. There will be ample time for questions from the floor and Glowmeet. This session will be hosted by Roddy Stuart.
Jaye Richards (teacher in Cathkin High School) and Ollie Bray (DHT in Musselburgh Grammar) will lead a session on how online technology forms a key part of their own professional learning.
In this session, Con Morris of the National CPD Team will look at how CPDFind has developed over the last 2 years, give participants a sneak preview of the changes being made and host a discussion on its future.
Sheila Smith of the National CPD Team will lead a conversation for new (and newish) members of the CPD Network.
We want to hear from you on this one. Members of the Glow team will give you a whistlestop tour of how Scottish educators are already using Glow for their professional development. If you, or some of your colleagues do, then let us know as soon as possible and it will feature. Of course, you might be keeping it for the ‘Open Mic’ session! 
We are well aware how busy life is as a CPD Network member. Here’s a chance to improve your hands-on skills in Glow with Katie Barrowman, Andrew Brown and other members of the Glow Team at LTScotland. You might even use the time to get some of those challenges done!
At last, a chance to tell the world about what you are doing in your local authority, your university, your national organisation! It can be a presentation, a visit to a website, a chat, a song and dance routine, it doesn’t matter as long as:
If we have too many on the day, we will dig out the old CPD random generator!
Margaret, Margaret, Sheila, Jim and Con will all contribute to a session that will update the Network on the work of the Team since our last meeting, but it won’t be the usual ‘stand-up’ routine! (Hint: the clue is in the online CPD tag-line!)
We will round the (working) day off with some more collegiate time with members of your group. Take the time to reflect on what you have seen, study the contributions to the ‘Building Windmills’ professional community and let us know if you want to see changes to the Day 2 agenda. Discussion topics will also come from the floor on the day. Just add them to the discussion thread for Day 1 Collegiate discussion.
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