Renfrewshire ICT Blog

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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 Renfrewshire Council is currently participating in the LT scotland computer games design pilot programme organised by Derek Robertson and the Consolarium based in Dundee.  I was given the opportunitry, along with colleagues from both Primary and Secondary schools, to explore Gamemaker.  Gamemaker allows you to begin creating games almost immediately, using a simple drag-and-drop system [...]

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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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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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We have just had two days of schools digital video festivals @ Lapwing Lodge. Pupils from 12 schools have come together to create, from scratch, there own film. The aim is that they use the skills they have learned back in their own school. The days were led by Oscar Stringer and supported by Ann [...]

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The DVD for the ICT showcase event which David and Ewan did in February landed on my desk this afternoon. The DVD will be duplicated and issued to all schools in Renfrewshire shortly after the Easter holidays.

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