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Loirston Connect
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Blogging in the Primary School
My presentation for the conference on Saturday 26th March.
Loirston Connect
Loirston Connect
Monday, 26 January 2009
We're Glowin!
I did my first Glow training session with teachers at my school today and it was very positive.
Staff all logged in and had a look around the portal. Some posted news and a few people were already coming up with ideas for their own Glow groups. I was really pleased with how well people took to it and some of their creative ideas!
I have some ideas of my own about how I will start to use Glow and Glow Learn when my pupils get their logins soon.
I really enjoyed the Glow Learn course last week at Stirling Management Centre which was ably presented by Andrew Brown and his team.
It will be a while before I train staff at my school in Glow Learn but I think the positive attitude they had today is a good sign for the future.
Staff all logged in and had a look around the portal. Some posted news and a few people were already coming up with ideas for their own Glow groups. I was really pleased with how well people took to it and some of their creative ideas!
I have some ideas of my own about how I will start to use Glow and Glow Learn when my pupils get their logins soon.
I really enjoyed the Glow Learn course last week at Stirling Management Centre which was ably presented by Andrew Brown and his team.
It will be a while before I train staff at my school in Glow Learn but I think the positive attitude they had today is a good sign for the future.
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Glow for all
My recent work in using Glow in the initial stages in Aberdeen City has prompted me to dig out this old blog and write a post.
I am working on a P7-S1 Transition Grow Group with a colleague from our asg Secondary school. While working together last week, he wanted to put some video on a website of his own and link to that whereas I would have preferred to put the video on Teacher Tube and get the embed code.
In fact there were everal things that my colleague was doing that I did not fully understand. But I realised that it did not matter!
He could work on his bits at his own level and I could work at mine! And this is the message that I think is important for Glow Mentors to get across to the many teachers who may be worried about Glow.
While the concept of Glow is no problem to all the technophiles out there, the majority of teachers are not yet working with web2 tools. I think the message needs to be that people can work at their own level and develop from there. When I started my class blog a couple of years ago, I posted only text. I then wanted to put pictures and later started to embed code etc. But I worked and learned at my own pace!
I have seen too much criticism of others recently and do not think that this is helpful to encouraging others to start something that they may not be that comfortable with.
Inspirational blogs like that of Ewan McIntosh and Nik Peachey and many others will always be helpful and show people what they could aspire to, but let's try to have a culture of help and encouragement, rather than criticism.
I am working on a P7-S1 Transition Grow Group with a colleague from our asg Secondary school. While working together last week, he wanted to put some video on a website of his own and link to that whereas I would have preferred to put the video on Teacher Tube and get the embed code.
In fact there were everal things that my colleague was doing that I did not fully understand. But I realised that it did not matter!
He could work on his bits at his own level and I could work at mine! And this is the message that I think is important for Glow Mentors to get across to the many teachers who may be worried about Glow.
While the concept of Glow is no problem to all the technophiles out there, the majority of teachers are not yet working with web2 tools. I think the message needs to be that people can work at their own level and develop from there. When I started my class blog a couple of years ago, I posted only text. I then wanted to put pictures and later started to embed code etc. But I worked and learned at my own pace!
I have seen too much criticism of others recently and do not think that this is helpful to encouraging others to start something that they may not be that comfortable with.
Inspirational blogs like that of Ewan McIntosh and Nik Peachey and many others will always be helpful and show people what they could aspire to, but let's try to have a culture of help and encouragement, rather than criticism.
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
A very useful Blog
I recently discovered Nik Peachey's blog. It is packed full of ideas and carefully thought out evaluations of fabulous web2 tools, many of which I had not come across.
His blog is different in that it is full of ideas to help teachers but Nik offers only his opinions of the tools rather than of the practice of others. A very refreshing change!
His blog is different in that it is full of ideas to help teachers but Nik offers only his opinions of the tools rather than of the practice of others. A very refreshing change!
Friday, 14 March 2008
Voices of the World
After posting our March contribution to this great project, I had a look at what we had done so far. Both the pupils and I have learned a lot of new skills in using some of the brilliant web tools that are available out there all free of charge. These tools are excellent for encouraging creativity. The success of this project is thanks to the hard work of Sharon Tonner.
Friday, 2 November 2007
Thursday, 4 October 2007
Reasons for blogging.
Next time I'm asked why I have a class blog, I will use the many ideas in this excellent video to help me with my reply.
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