Glow Scotland

May 9th, 2013

Gone – An interactive, cross curricular alcohol education resource

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: friendships, NHS Forth Valley
 : Categories CPD, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing

Join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 15th May at 4pm for a Health and Wellbeing event, looking at the themes of growing up, the changing nature of friendships, pressures and choices, alcohol use, s*xting and resilience. It is aimed at pupils in second year of secondary school.

Gone is an interactive, cross curricular alcohol education resource which has been developed by NHS Forth Valley in conjunction with its partner education authorities.

The programme examines 4 characters as they move from primary school to secondary school and follows them through to S3. It uses a range of mediums to engage with pupils. Each lesson involves pupils viewing some short video sequence, completing tasks designed in a computer gaming format and participating in debate and discussion facilitated by the teacher. The pupils are asked, through a series of votes to predict which character will be ‘gone’ as a result of a decision involving alcohol by the end of S3. The resource is supported by a series of power points and a detailed teacher guide.

This session aims to introduce practitioners to an innovative resource which explores a range of health and wellbeing issues in a creative and engaging way.

Please note; The Glow Meet will be most applicable to secondary practitioners, pupil support staff and senior managers in secondary schools.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV – Gone – An interactive, cross curricular alcohol education resource

You can also subscribe to the Glow TV eCard to ensure that you never miss out on any forthcoming events.

May 9th, 2013

SCILT – Developing Language Skills through Phonics

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: phonics, SCILT
 : Categories CPD, Curriculum for Excellence, Early Years, Events, Glow, Glow TV, modern languages

Glow TV along with the SCILT Professional Learning Community is delighted to host a range of events beginning on Tuesday 14th May at 4pm.

Presented by Lynne Jones and Meryl James, Professional Development Officers at SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages this first workshop will consider the place of phonics in Modern Language learning as well as the benefits and implications of developing phonological awareness in young language learners.

Lynne and Meryl will explore the impact that creative use of phonics can have in your classroom; not only in talking, but also in developing other language skill areas.

This event is suitable for Early Years, Primary and ASN practitioners.

Sign up and join us in Glow TV – SCILT – Developing Language Skills through Phonics

You can also subscribe to the Glow TV eCard to ensure that you never miss out on any forthcoming events.

March 28th, 2013

Glow Roadshow – Aberdeen & Dundee

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Glow is packed full of educational resources and national communities where teaching staff can collaborate with colleagues across Scotland.

To showcase some of these great resources RM is hosting two more Glow Roadshows.

Dates, Time & Location:

Saturday 18th of May 2013, 10.00am to 2.00pm, Dundee

Purpose: To highlight and promote the learning and teaching resources and professional learning opportunities available through Glow using RM Unify.

Format: Representatives from TWIG, J2E, The Daily What for education, RM and Scran will have a stand to exhibit and discuss their resources. In addition there will be a rolling programme of presentations during the day.

See table at the bottom of this post

• Twig on Glow
Over 1500 high quality films covering Maths, Science, Geography and Health – complete with support resources matched to the curriculum of excellence levels 2, 3, and 4.

• The Daily What News
Online news service provided for Scottish Schools supporting the development of literacy and language across the curriculum. The site also provides a wealth of support materials.

• Just2Easy
Just 2 easy is an online blogging tool. Children can create, sharing and learn in an esave environment.

• Scran
Scran is a charity & online learning resource base with over 360,000 images & media from museums, galleries, archives and the media. These resources can be downloaded and used copyright free.

• Glow Nuggets
A whistle-stop tour of all the great resources available through Glow.

This event is open to teachers and staff, if you want to find out more or register to attend then please email Glowenquiries@rm.com

Presentation Programme:

March 26th, 2013

Glow is Evolving, MS-Office 365 (Wave 15)

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Glow is Evolving – Key Migration Milestone; new environment MS-Office 365 (wave 15)

It’s always nice to be able to share good news with you and today I’m delighted to say that Microsoft has now confirmed that our tenancy upgrade to MS-Office 365(Wave 15) will start in June 2013.

You told us that your preference was to wait for O365(Wave 15) and this news means that we can plan with certainty for the portal migration. This will take place over the summer and will therefore mean minimal disruption for schools across Scotland.

So not only does this give our users some certainty about timescales for the portal migration, this also offers access to the most up-to-date version of the product and has additional benefits for users.

All of our existing plans are being amended to reflect this change and we’ll share these with you as soon as possible. Hopefully you find the existing help articles in the Glow Help blog useful, they are categorised under Glow to O365 Migration.

Regards
Maureen

Assistatn Director, Emerging Technologies

March 5th, 2013

Paper Project – Making Paper Move

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: David Griffin, Paper Pro
 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow, Glow TV, Moving Image Education, Pupils, Technologies

Join us live from Dundee Contemporary Arts on Monday 11th March at 11am for animation tips and ideas from David Griffin of MAS Scotland.

This animation workshop supports the paper creativity challenges that were designed (which can be found in the Create with Paper Glow Group) and is most suitable for first and second level learners.

For over ten years David has been working with nurseries, schools, local authorities, film festivals and government agencies to turn ideas and imagination into moving animations and films. David provides Moving Image Education training, CPD and production services to a wide range of educational clients. Find out more on the MASS website

These live workshops can be supported by the fabulous resources you can find to help you get animating in the classroom: Animation – Moving Image Education and also Create – Moving Image Education

Sign up and join us in Glow TV!- or if you miss it follow the link to Watch Again!

November 18th, 2012

ADES day at Glasgow Science Centre – TES Scotland article

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Extract from TES article on 17th November

Read the full article, click here

Extract
The mood was upbeat, at times defiantly so. It was an event to talk up the latest re-imagining of Glow, the national intranet for schools. Behind the scenes people spoke about the unfair press they felt Glow had received. Onstage they were frank about past failings, but insistent that times had changed.

The organisers had an impressive-looking graph to show that Glow usage was rising fast, and were keen to show how the clunkiness of old Glow was being ditched for a shiny new app-driven incarnation – which a pilot in October had declared a hit.

“It’s a very positive day,” said Bruce Robertson of education directors’ body ADES, which organised the learning and technology conference with help from the Virtual Staff College, RM Education, Education Scotland and Microsoft. “We’re in a better place than we were a few months ago.”

The mood had been similar at another computing conference 11 days earlier. Attendees at the volunteer-driven event described it as the best CPD they had had in years, and how their passion for the subject had been revived by the burgeoning opportunities now available.

Scotland, it appears, is getting its ICT act together, if the enthusiasm demonstrated at these two events is anything to go by. But scratch the surface and tensions become apparent.

November 2nd, 2012

RM Unify Pilot – Feedback published

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Introduction of RM Unify To Glow

RM Unify is the launchpad that will provide single sign on to Microsoft Office 365 and other applications.

It was piloted in Oct 2012 in a range of schools from across different local authorities, feedback was provided in a Glow Group and this feedback has been summarised and documented, the document is available in the national group – Migration of Glow to Office 365.

Click here to access the group.

A great big thank you to all the schools and local authority staff involved. It was great to see the pupils enjoying the new look interface.

- This group also contains a video tour of RM Unify -

October 8th, 2012

Migration of Glow to Office 365 – October Update

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As you are aware, the Migration of Glow to Office 365 has been developing over the summer and we are now at a key stage where we feel it is important to outline where matters are as well as the key milestones you can expect. Over the last few months staff in Education Scotland, Microsoft and RM have been engaging with various stakeholders, in particular ADES and Local Authority representatives, to plan the most appropriate way forward for the project. We will continue to do this and, as you know, ADES has arranged for an ICT in education conference on 1 November where further, more detailed information will be shared. In the meantime we hope that this briefing keeps you and your staff up to date with progress to date.

Migration

RM Unify
RM Unify consists of three core components, a Launchpad, the App Library and the Bus.
1. The Launchpad: Access applications and services centrally and launch via a single logon
2. The App Library: Discover what’s out there and bring together the best services and applications to support teaching and learning
3. The Bus: Manage users through simple, seamless and secure provisioning of accounts

Piloting RM Unify
RM Unify piloting started w/c 1st of October. The pilot will be carried out with specific schools from Edinburgh, North Ayrshire, Scottish Borders, East Renfrewshire, West Lothian, North Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire. The pilot runs from 1st of October until 24th of October.

Feedback will be encouraged from all and will come in to the national Glow Group – using a survey, forum and paper on the day. We will collate and use this feedback before proceeding to the next stage.

In this pilot we will be piloting RM Unify only, not Office 365.

Office 365 for Education
RM Unify needs to be in place to pass the single sign-on authentication into the Office 365 for education platform and applications. Once Unify has been piloted and implemented, Office 365 will be connected and further pilots will be organised. Timelines showing the detail of the implementation plan will be communicated as soon as they have been completed and will contain accurate dates and information.

The elements of MS Office 365 that will be available to Glow Users across Scotland are listed below.

• Exchange online with full mobile experience – email, calendar, web-app, 25Gb email storage per user.
• Lync online service – peer to peer video communications, Presence and IM, integration with Exchange and Sharepoint online, usable on mobile devices.
• Sharepoint online – 512Mb personal plus 512Mb pooled data storage.
• Office Web Apps – online browser based versions of the familiar MS Office suite including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. This will remove the requirement to have an underlying MS Office installation on a device, however when the apps are on the client, they will work together.
• Blogging and Wiki tools with social networking integration.
• Powerful document collaboration including multi-user editing facilities.

Some of these applications were demonstrated at the recent Scottish Learning Festival.

Client Requirements Document
This gives details of the minimum client requirements needed for the migration of Glow. It is posted in the Migration of Glow to Office 365 national group listed in the Glow Users section below.

Engagement

1.  Glow Stakeholder Focus Group
As part of the migration of Glow we’ve set up a small but key Stakeholder group. The remit of this group is to help inform decisions about the user experience for the current migration project. These include:

•  Setup options for MS Office 365 for education
There are several different setup options for this application
• Email domain strategy
Structure for the new email service. (rollout to authorities is imminent, with all authorities having access to the new email solution before March 2013)
• Migration strategy
Looking at moving legacy services to the new solution. We aim to have all migration to be complete by summer 2013
• Launch pad (Home Page) applications
Look of the RM Unify landing page & applications displayed
• Exemplification
Best way of exemplifying use of Glow in learning and teaching
• Engagement
Preferred methods for engaging with the Glow community

2.  Working with Microsoft – E-portfolio Migration
Education Scotland is in contact with Microsoft to agree the next steps around the migration of the Glow e-portfolio solution, the aim is to work with a Microsoft SharePoint developer and pull together a short-term working group. The group will deliver their findings in due course. WE WILL NOT MIGRATE ANY E- PORTFOLIOS UNTIL SUMMER 2013.

3.  Glow Key Contacts

KC/ADES Update @ SLF
The Glow Key Contacts and representatives from ADES attended a closed meeting at this year’s festival. The meeting went extremely well and delegates were given a demo of RM Unify and O365 for education. Component migration paths were also shared.

Next Meeting
The next Glow Summit, in conjunction with the ADES – ICT in Education Conference – will be held at the Glasgow Science Centre early November.

Communications

General Update
We continue to use our existing communication channels to promote our Glow messages and updates:

Public Facing
• Education Scotland Online Service
• Glowscotland blog
• facebook/glowscotland
• Twitter.com/EducationScot
• Glow login i-frame

Subscription Based
• Glow & CfE e-bulletin
• e-cards

Glow Users
• Glow Light image
• National Site
• Glow Replacement Project – new national group

Scottish Learning Festival
We received extremely positive feedback from our seminars, presentations and stand demos of Glow.  Delegates were excited to see the changing solution, including the new RM Unify interface and tiles directly linking users to great Learning and Teaching products such as Office-365, RM Books, Twig World, J2E to name but a few.

Useful Links
GlowScotland Blog – GlowScotland Blog
Glow on Facebook – www.facebook.com/glowscotland
National e-portfolio group – *e-portfolio
The Glow national site – Glow National Site

We hope that this briefing has outlined where we have got to and where we are going with Glow and we look forward to an exciting future.

Glow is evolving

September 3rd, 2012

The Standard for Career Long Professional Learning

Jennifer McDougall

Comments: none Tags: Tags: GTC Scotland, Professional Standards
 : Categories CPD, Events, Glow, Glow TV

GTC Scotland have been working on a revision of the Professional Standards, and will publish drafts of each of the revised standards in August for consultation, with a view to publishing the Standards at the start of 2013.

Join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 5th September at 4pm to find out more about The Standard for Career Long Professional Learning. This draft standard aims to support teachers to continually develop and advance their thinking, learning, practice and expertise. The actions, knowledge, skills and abilities identified in the SfR will continue to be the foundation of practice with teachers who are working with this standard evolving and developing their practice and expertise further and beyond the registered level. The Standard recognises that during their careers teachers may undertake a variety of roles within and beyond the classroom. It also recognises the potential leadership roles that all teachers have.

This session will be led by Tom Hamilton, Director of Professional Learning at GTC Scotland, and will explore the thinking behind the development of this standard, as well as some of the planned content. Sign up and join us in Glow TV for this event.

If you missed the first Standards for Registration Glow TV event on 30th August you can view it in Glow TV’s Watch Again section.

Other forthcoming events include Standards for Leadership and Management on 13th September with a final session on all three standards The Revised GTCS Professional Standards on 27th September.

August 29th, 2012

Glow Science Is Upgraded to Twig World Resource

Dawn Adams

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 : Categories CPD, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow, Glow Meet, Glow TV, Mathematics, Sciences, Social Studies, Technologies

Twig World Ltd, the company behind the popular Glow Science, is releasing an additional two subjects – maths and geography – to their online resource. The addition of over 200 films brings the total online content to over 1000 high quality short films with related learning materials.

The website now allows teachers and students to save favourites, search across curricular areas and embed films into learning materials and classroom presentations. On the new website, exclusively for Glow users, all resources are mapped to the Curriculum for Excellence areas of Sciences, Social studies, Mathematics and Responsibility of all.

Twig on Glow can be accessed from www.twigonglow.com as well as from within Glow.

www.glowscience.org.uk will continue to be available until January 2013.

*www.twigonglow.com includes all content from Glow Science as well as new materials and can be accessed using your Glow login.

Join us in Glow TV for a series of events which will allow you to explore the new Twig on Glow as a resource to support learning and teaching. Ask questions of practitioners who have used the resource and find out what’s new.

Click on the links below to sign up for an event (Glow login required) The following sessions are available:

Twig on Glow, Sciences CPD – 3rd September at 4pm
Twig on Glow, Mathematics CPD – 10th September at 4pm
Twig on Glow, Geography CPD – 1st October at 4pm