Renfrewshire ICT Blog

We had a discussion with EDS today about how we go about publishing material on Glow.  This led to a very useful discussion about quality, intellectual property rights and granularity/
As a result we have started to look at what we aleardy own and how easy it would be to make this availabkle online.
We also agreed [...]

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Four of our schools start piloting the Glow portal tomorrow.  Representatives from each of the schools will meet together for training tomorrow then access will become available for them to start using the system for the very first time.
I shall blog some more on this tomorrow.

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I have just spent the last hour updating bits of our EA website.  This is not a big thing but it can be very time consuming!  All our school websites are based on take2theweb.  This provides a very easy way of managing the site.  I am just too much of a perfectionist to let it [...]

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Masterclass participants from Renfrewshire are meeting today in Abbey House along with those who have recently attended SETT as part of the Glow group.  The aim of the meeting is to reflect on SETT (including teachmeet06) this year and to look at plans for the coming session.  This include Glow training, ICT staff development opportunities [...]

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Susan Ronnie at Kirklandneuk Primary has set up a French blog.  You can see what they are up to here. She is going to put bubbleshare photos (with question bubbles in french) on her blog and then the children will answer the questions in French.  She is going to work along side Inchinnan Primary who have also set [...]

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So you didn’t get to SETT because you couldn’t get out of school.  Well, you don’t need to miss outcompletely.  LTS have put a huge selection of audio files on their website covering the seminar programme.  The RSS link allows you to subscribe to the podcast or you can download the files one by one [...]

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Did you know that there was now an SQA unit on Internet Safety?  It’s at INtermediate 1 and is very practical.  Perhaps this is the sort of thing that could be used to reinforce the importance of teaching young people in secondary school about responsible and wise use of the net.  Check the NQ search [...]

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The meeting of secondary school ICT coordinators takes place on Thursday the 5th of October at 1:30pm in the Sir James Clark building, Abbey Mill.  The agenda for the meeting will include:

IT update – Ann Crawford
technical issues – Phil Feeney
an introduction to the glow portal – Paul Smyth
Evaluating the impact of ICT in learning – [...]

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