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An Excellent Adventure
On Friday Professor Muffy Calder Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland announced The ICT in Education Excellence Group completes its report on the requirements of a future
Glow Blog Hack iFrames
A while back I noticed a post on the glow forums (glo login needed) where someone wanted to embed a google calendar on a glow blog. The problem is that the glow install of
Twitter Goodness - Glow
Ironically just after my last post I had a very interesting and useful time on twitter today. Mostly about Glow and GlowPlus and Glew I've collected the tweets here: #glow
#GlowPlus: is it necessary?
Jaye commented here: My other thoughts are about the need for anything at all. Are we past the age of intranets? Should we concentrate on disseminating good practice and l
#GlowPlus: User Needs
Over the next few months, our focus will be on setting out the user requirements for Glow Plus and understanding the platform requirements that will underpin it. The mem
Glow – Schools IT Excellence Group 1st Thoughts
Education Secretary Michael Russell has appointed the Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Muffy Calder to convene an ICT Excellence Group to consider the future development
Glew Notes: Moblogging
Blogging Au Plein Air, after Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com Attribution License Glew is becoming more interesting everyday. The MetaWeblogA
Glew Notes: FeedWordPress
Like quite a few folk I've been kicking the tyres of Glew a wee bit over the last week or so. One very interesting feature is a plugin that Charlie has preinstalled into t
Glew, get Stuck in
Lots of information about glow and glow2 trickling through twitter recently. There seems to be a change in timescale for Glow2. This was discovered: View Notice - Public C
Thinking about Laurie O'Donnell's Glowing into the Future
I've spent a fair bit of time mulling over this post: Laurie O'Donnell » Glowing into the Future and writing a comment. This turned into more of a post than a comment. Lau
#EDUScotICT small things - transcript
This is the transcript of a podcast episode I posed at edutalk: #EDUScotICT small things I had put my name down to talk for 3 minutes at the EDUscotICT conference on the 1
Primary Games API = Games in Glow (and elsewhere)
.fntest{padding:2px;font-size: 0.8em;vertical-align: super;text-decoration:none;background:#E6E6E6} I've been aware of the Primary Games Arena 1 for a while. I only notice
A better Glow Login?
A while back I posted about a system for Simplifying the glow logon I was developing. Hopefully some folk in North Lanarkshire will be using this next term. Yesterday I wa
iPads and Glow
iPad stand by tim_d Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License I was pretty impressed with the iPad 2 which was launched this week. Some nice new features and the speed
ScotEduBlogs Update
Republished due to a wee bit of bother with the backend of my blog. At the weekend Robert added a new feature to ScotsEduBlogs : ScotEduBlogs Professional ScotsEduBlogs ex
Glow Wikis
Glow has added wikis to it list of features. What is a wiki? (from wikipedia): A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to con
Climate Change
Climate Change: information and resources for primary schools in Scotland a new site from LTS which looks great. The purpose of this online resource is to provide practiti
Glo.li Url shortner
Consolerium games guru Charile Love has come up with a pile of interesting stuff linked to his work and glow. A while back he published a guide to Creating Your Custom Glo
Getting Started Blogging 3- Comments
This post is the third in an attempted series about getting started blogging loosely linked to the launch of glow blogs . Conversation by Rishi Menon Attribution-NonCommer
#ediff, tweets, gbl & amateur hacking
Technologies for Learning Workshop Yesterday I attend the Technologies for Learning Workshop which was intended to form part of the initial exploration work contributing t
glowfutur.es
NB. posted in annoyance! A while ago I took the time to fill in the survey on the Glow Futures home page, and had a quick look at the forums. Like most other folk in educa
Glow Light First Impressions
Glow light came online today yesterday: Glow Light is a new alternative Glow interface designed with a simpler 'splash' page. This 'splash' page will display a list of use
Getting Started Blogging 2 - What is it About
This post is the second in an attempted series about getting started blogging loosely linked to the launch of glow blogs . Have you see this: This is an example of a WordP
Getting Started Blogging 1 - Short Term blogs
With Glow blogs looking like they may stimulate the use of blogs in more Scottish classrooms I though I might put together a few posts about some ideas around starting to
Videos in Glow- another way - TopUp
I've blogged a bit before about adapting glow to show video and audio . I've found another way to do it using the TopUp Javascript library and jQuery Here is a screencast
Glow Gets Blogs
Yesterday saw the launch of blogs in Glow. A much requested feature from the beginning it is great to see Glow getting into a web 2 world at last. To set up your blog you
MP3 players in Glow
A while ago I blogged about adding some functionality to glow: Glow Kludges , in a fairly crude way. This technique for embedding players for audio and video content into
Glowing Thursdays - Podcasting
On Thursday I took part in a Glowing Thursdays event, presenting about podcasting, I've put my slides together with an audio recording of the event. I've done a little edi
Glow forums - Worth the wait
I guess this will be blogged and tweeted a fair bit, 3 years ago I hopeful posted : Unfortunately I have found navigating the discussions very clunky. lots of scrolling an
glow, JavaScript and XSL
A short while ago I wrote about using JavaScript in glow: Glow Kludges and noted that Fraser Davidson had briefly showed me his use of XSL in glow. I had hoped to catch up
Scottish Learning Festival 09
I am starting to filter through various thoughts about the two days at the learning festival and of course TeachMeet09, yesterday I posted my unused, TeachMeet09 presentat
Glow Kludges
This was going to be my TeachMeet talk at the Scottish Learning festival this year, if my name had been pulled out of the virtual fruit machine. kludge : (a badly assemble
Glow 1 thinking of Glow 2
My blogging seems to have hit a all time low. I think this is mainly because I used to blog about my classroom practice (with some iPhone, web tech and the odd AppleScript
Glow Learn Training
I spent Thursday and Friday at the Stirling Management Centre learning about Glow Learn. This is just my first reaction to the training, my own opinion which will probably
Web2 into glow
At the Scottish Learning Festival on Thursday I was asked to do a wee turn in the Glowing Lounge talking about glow. As my Authority have not started to roll out glow yet,
The Start of the holidays
Straight from school on friday to the pub, for a bit to eat, a few Guinness and to talk a fair bit of nonsense. Steam was let off the world put to rights and a few farewel
Exploring glow
Since the start of the holidays I've spent quite a few hours in Glow trying out some tools. I gave a brief account a few days ago and said I was not sure if blogging about
Trying to Glow
Normally in the first few days of a holiday I'd find the time to blog that I do not have in a working week. Not this time, I spent the first 3 days immersed in Glow . Ther
BarCampScotland
I spent the afternoon at BarCampScotland BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. Organised by and others