A teacher discusses his early experiences using Glow, Scotland's national digital learning platform, in a secondary school. He found that Glow showed potential for cross-curricular collaboration and discussions. However, he also experienced some frustrations with Glow's limited functionality at times.
11. Other 2.0 @Alan_Hamilton i like the potential of Glow, uses only limited by my imagination. it's functionality (or lack) frustrates sometimes #SICTDG
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Staff trained in February of this yearGlow mentor since March 2008Lots of exciting things have happened – glow meets with France, Malta, Glowing ThurdaysLots of challenges too – staff passwords!, other priorities (SQA exams), time to train
Love:Glow LearnPupil’s have access to e-mailCross Curricular possibilities Glow MeetNational ConversationsCould be better:Not user friendlyTraining timeOther 2.0 technologies are betterDifferent browsers
S1 pupils given passwords this weekExcited – created calendar entries without being shown howFound Glow games very quickly!
Glow learn:S3 and S5 classes using (38 pupils)Homework is handed in on time by 90% of pupilsOnly 2 pupils hand in homework in jottersReporting and trackingParents will be able to seePublic comments storedPrivate comments seen by other teachers
Glow team are always there to helpPhoned me next morning
3 depts working togetherMore joining this session
Tool not been able to use before
IPR – got schools talkingLessons on copyright with classes
TrainingDouble dutch
Wiki’s better way for pupils to collaborate on one piece of workDon’t have to train pupils to use wikis