Renfrewshire ICT Blog

I spent some time today preparing the presentation on GLOW  for use at our head teachers’ meetings over the next three weeks.  I had intended using something I had done before but the fact that my hard drive has died makes that difficult.  This will be an important chance for us to talk about the [...]

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GLOW Piloting in Renfrewshire,
originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.

Training for the first phase of piloting of the GLOW portal took place at Park Mains High School on Wednesday. Staff from the four schools (Barsail and St Fillan’s Primaries and Johnstone Park Mains High) spent the afternoon together learning about the tasks involved in the [...]

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Four of our schools start piloting the Glow portal tomorrow.  Representatives from each of the schools will meet together for training tomorrow then access will become available for them to start using the system for the very first time.
I shall blog some more on this tomorrow.

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So you didn’t get to SETT because you couldn’t get out of school.  Well, you don’t need to miss outcompletely.  LTS have put a huge selection of audio files on their website covering the seminar programme.  The RSS link allows you to subscribe to the podcast or you can download the files one by one [...]

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The first ICT coordinators meeting in Renfrewshire for this session takes place on Wednesday the 27th of September at 1:30pm or 4pm in the Sir James Clark Building, Paisley.  At the meeting we shall be discussing technical issues with Phil Feeney from ICT, looking at how we can evaluate the impact of ICT in learning [...]

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A number of folk who attended SETT last week were inspired to start thinking about using web 2.0 tools in the classroom as well as for professional development.  I am very keen to encourage teachers to think about using these tools for their own professional reflection and for enhancing the learning in the classroom.  One [...]

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The first seminar I visited at SETT was with Ewan Mackintosh – Web 2.0 (or 5 things in the live web which will engage your learners and why blogging isn’t one of them). The five things were: 1. The web gives your students an audience for their work beyond just the teacher, their peers or [...]

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Started off at Ewan and David’s seminar on Creating Communities where Bebo was discussed. It is meant to be for over 13s but many children of 8 use it. The least used feature seems to be blogs with children preferring to make comments on other blogs, post pictures of their favourite bands [...]

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I thought it would be a good idea if I were to round up the session with a short report of where we have got to with ICT in Renfrewshire.  I have no doubt I shall miss things out but most of the main things that we have done should be here.  Please let me [...]

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Just a quick note to keep you up to date with the development of the new on-line in-service catalogue.  The system went live last week with courses available from August to October at the moment.  The rest will be available after the summer.
There have been some technical difficulties relating to our own filtering software, Intelliguard.  [...]

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