Renfrewshire ICT Blog » RM http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org Developing learning with ICT in Renfrewshire Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:19:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 GLOW Launch http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/10/10/glow-launch/ http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/10/10/glow-launch/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0000 gordonmckinlay http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/10/10/glow-launch/ 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 has to offer. Finally Douglas Chapelle from RM gave a presentation of the importance of thinking through the issues of ICT in learning and teaching. Douglas highlighted the Tim Brighouse book”How Success Head Teachers Survive and Thrive” which was distributed to all our establishments earlier this term. If you have not yet had a chance to look at this can I commend it to you.

This was a great evening and we are very thankful to all the contributors for the time they gave up.  The next steps are all to do with implementation.  Steven Wilson has been working hard at the ops training and this is ongoing with mentor training later in the month.  It looks like it will be all go very soon!

]]> http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/10/10/glow-launch/feed/ 0 Getting to Grips with Web Parts http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/29/getting-to-grips-with-web-parts/ http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/29/getting-to-grips-with-web-parts/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:14:02 +0000 gordonmckinlay http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/29/getting-to-grips-with-web-parts/ 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 to a Glow group. I created this group for the staff who are having a lookgetting to grips with web parts at how to use the system for themselves.

All good so far. The main problem is that we can’t actually use the chat or web conferencing facilities due to firewall difficulties we are currently having! It is going to be a bit of a damp squib if we can’t get that fixed over the next week or two. At the moment the only place anyone can actually use the tools as if they have a broadband conenction at home. Not ideal.

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