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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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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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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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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Phase 2 of Glow piloting is about to start.  The four schools (Barsail and St Fillan’s Primaries and Johnstone and Park Mains High) will be involved in trying out more of the services which will be the final part of Glow.  This time round the schools will be trying out web hosting, web conferencing, chat, [...]

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Many thanks go to everyone involved in setting up and running last night’s ICT showcase.  We had 200 teachers plus a number of other in attendance.  David Muir and Ewan McIntosh gave a brilliant and stimulating presentation on some possible uses of web 2.0 in learning.    The previous posts give some of the detail.
Over the [...]

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Yesterday saw the end of the phase 1 pilot period of Glow. Folk from the four schools involved in Renfrewshire met together to talk through what had gone well and what had not gone well. Paul and Vicki then joined us and we were able toprovide some verbal feedback to them. I still have to [...]

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