Renfrewshire ICT Blog

You will be aware of the work of Professor Tim Brighouse through the two books issued to all head teachers over the last couple of years. The more recent book “How Successful Head Teachers Survive and Thrive” was issued to all schools at the start of this term. Professor Brighouse is a non executive director [...]

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Last night saw the GLOW launch in Renfrewshire at Gleniffer High School. About 250 people with representation from most schools in Renfrewshire attended the event. We heard from Alan Wait from Learning Curve about the importance of digital literacy in the 21st century. Paul Smyth gave a first live glimpse of some of what GLOW [...]

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A busy first week of the new session was dominated by an important meeting with representatives of the Glow national team. The training model which we have proposed for the implementation of Glow in Renfrewshire has been accepted and discussion is now focussing on the content and timing of the training we will deliver [...]

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Glow Messenger – Success,
originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.
We spent a busy afternoon this week with staff from RM putting in place the plans that will allow us to implement Glow as early in the new session as possible. This was a very productive afternoon and I feel that we have now got all [...]

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Further to yesterdays post from Gordon, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new Staff Tutor for ICT in Renfrewshire.
I previously taught Computing at Park Mains High School and I am particularly enjoying the opportunity my new post offers me to work with staff and youngsters from all sectors of [...]

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Since I took over my new post as acting senior adviser I have not had much time to do anything with the ICT blog.  I am now taking matters in hand.  Our new staff tutor, Steven Wilson, is about to take it over so that schools in Renfrewshire can stay up to date with what [...]

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The schools have been back for a week but we have really been struggling to get the Glow pilot going.  The new tools we have been trying to pilot have been causing all sorts of problems with our network.  The issues have not been with Glow but with our firewall.  Access to the portal has [...]

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I have spent a bit of time this morning trying to get a bit of a handle on understanding how the Glow portal works. To do this I created a group and then added a variety of parts. In order to use tools such as web conferencing and chat you have to add those parts [...]

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Well the phase 2 piloting of Glow has started. We have four schools involved again and ten other staff having a look under the guise of “Mentors”. The mentors have only just got their user names and passwords this week so they have not got very far to date.

It would be fair to [...]

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Tomorrow sees the start of preparation for phase 2 of Glow piloting in Renfrewshire.  We have two meetings tomorrow: one for the pilot schools and the second for the mentors.  In the afternoon the four pilot schools: Barsail and St Fillan’s primaries and Johnstone and ParkMains High schools will learn about what is expected of [...]

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