Renfrewshire ICT Blog

The GLOW pilot has now started in Renfrewshire with four schools gaining access to the portal along with mentors.  Here are some screenshots which give a bit of a flavour of what it looks like for your interest and information.  You should be able to see the main areas of the portal as well as some [...]

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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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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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Masterclass participants from Renfrewshire are meeting today in Abbey House along with those who have recently attended SETT as part of the Glow group.  The aim of the meeting is to reflect on SETT (including teachmeet06) this year and to look at plans for the coming session.  This include Glow training, ICT staff development opportunities [...]

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At the meeting of ICT coordinators on September the 27th, Paul Smyth of RM gave an introduction to Glow.  He made the point that Glow is the new name for the Scottish Schools Digital Network.  There will be 800,000 users across teachers and pupils in Scotland.  It is browser based and will work on any [...]

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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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This was my first time at SETT. I will definitely try to go back in future, even if it is just for the twilight sessions. I went to seminars on eTwinning, Blogging and Motivation within a Curriculum for Excellence. I heard keynote speeches made by Lady Marie Stubbs and Peter Peacock. I caught [...]

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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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