Renfrewshire ICT Blog

At the GLOW early adopters meeting today we found out about speaking characters called Voki.  Try this out at www.voki.com
Get a Voki now!
 This might be worth having a wee look at for engaging kids in some of the learning and teaching.

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This blog has not been updated for ages due to change of jobs, remits, etc.  As we are getting towards the end of term I though it would be worth giving a bit of an end of term report.  The deployment of GLOW has now been completed.  All schools and nurseries in Renfrewshire now have access [...]

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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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We are at the Scottish Learning Festival this week.  Steven and I have been on the Renfrewshire stand in Hall 2 and Gordon has been keeping his own blog up to date at http://gordonsramblings.blogspot.com.
If you are at SLF then find us and say hello.

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Day 229 - close up, originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.

The new session starts this week. We are about to start getting geared up for implementing Glow in Renfrewshire. A lot of planning has been done [...]

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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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Day 170 - Is there anybody out there?, originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.

I have now managed to get round to trying out some more aspects of the Glow phase 3 pilot. I was keen to try [...]

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I had a fantastic day on Wednesday when I helped out at Renfrewshire’s latest Digital Video Festival at Lapwing Lodge Outdoor Centre in the Glennifer Braes.
The course was delivered by Oscar Stringer who is a world leader in the teaching of video and animation for the classroom.  Oscar flew up from Bristol and created a flurry of activity in [...]

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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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