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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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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Today was a joint venture between Renfrewshire and Inverclyde related to a Curriculum for Excellence. The Literacy forum focussed on literacy in the 21st century. Eve Bearne from Cambridge gave a very interesting presentation on teaching literacy.  You can find an interesting article about technology and literacy here.  Andrew Gallacher gave a highly [...]

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Today Computing and Business Studies teachers from Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire met together at the Erskine Bridge Hotel to learn about developments in a curriculum for excellence. 
There were three sessions in the day.  Bernard McLeary, the chief executive of LTS gave the keynote address highlighting the major developments and timelines for the programme. 

Joyce Henderson [...]

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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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It’s Monday morning and I have checked the final figures for the ICT Showcase on Tuesday evening.  We have 180 teachers booked with another 20 or so guests including parents and some folks from outwith Renfrewshire.  All the final details should be in place.  The evening will be videoed so we can create a DVD [...]

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An article on the BBC website highlights a report about a study of the use of interactive whiteboards inLondon schools.  The report highlights concerns that investment in the boards has not resulted in any measureable improvement in learning and teaching.
If you are spending money on new boards to be installed before the end of this [...]

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I spent some time yesterday with David Muir in final plannng for the ICT showcase on the evening of the 20th of February.  It has been great to see how many places have been booked already.  It is going to be very busy!  If you are thinking about coming and not have yet booked a [...]

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