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2. Alex Duff (Emerging Technologies)CURRENT AND NEW GLOWRESILIENCETransforming lives through learning 3. Resilience and Glow What have Local Authroties been asked to do? Specific examples of what some Local Authorities have done How might the Scottish Government and Education Scotland helpsupport Local Authorities to take this forward?Transforming lives through learning 4. LA RequirementsAll Local Authorities are required to have in place measures to ensurecontinuity of learning for pupils. This may be required for an individual pupil who is absent due to long-term illness, or for all pupils in the event of a school closure due to adverse weather, failure of the school heating system, or some other reason.Several Local Authorities have been looking at Glow as one way ofaddressing this.Transforming lives through learning 5. West Lothian Example Primary driver was the need for continuity planning in the event ofnon-school attendance Also a desire to support pupils more generally. The Glow Key Contact for West Lothian met with a small group ofclassroom practitioners and a member of the National Glow Team,to discuss the variety of ways in which they might use Glow for this The group was very conscious of the need to minimise the amountof work that this might involve for teachers Group decided to capitalise on existing Glow expertise in schools Initial focus being to provide support for pupils approaching SQAexaminations.Transforming lives through learning 6. What did all WL Secondary Schools do? All 11 Secondary schools were asked to identify teachers who: were already using Glow with their classes, and already had learning and teaching resources held within a GlowGroup, and would be willing to open up these Glow Groups to pupils fromacross the Authority This meant that if, for example, a pupil studying Higher English didnot have access to a Higher English Glow Group within their ownschool, they would be able to access one in another school.Transforming lives through learning 7. How was this all brought together? It was then decided that a Glow Group would be created at LocalAuthority level, with all pupils and teachers from all schools havingcontributor rights. Within the Group is a page for each subject, with links on the pageto the existing school based Glow Groups. Pupils have reader access to the Groups that are not in their ownschool. Also on each page is a Document store with learning and teachingresources, and a Web Links web part with links to useful subject-specific sites.Transforming lives through learning 8. Im Winter Ready! All West Lothian pupils were given Im Winter Ready stickers when: They had demonstrated they could log successfully in to Glow,and They demonstrated that they knew where to go in Glow in theevent of a school closureTransforming lives through learning 9. What provision does West Lothian have? Initially at Local Authority level, a supporting blog was created forpre-school, with various Glow Groups created to collate appropriateschool resources This year, all schools are being encouraged to identify theirresources locallyTransforming lives through learning 10. Remote Tuition Pupils will be able to receive remote tuition or advice from a teacherin any school across the Authority using the communication webparts, since each page also contains a Glow Chat, a Glow Meet anda Discussion Board. Not all subject areas or levels were covered initially, but it washoped that the range available would increase as more teachersbecame involved. Provision has now been extended to lower Secondary and toPrimary pupils.Transforming lives through learning 11. Laura Compton Interview part 1Transforming lives through learning 12. Laura Compton Interview part 2Transforming lives through learning 13. Aberdeenshire ExampleTransforming lives through learning 14. Art in the SnowTransforming lives through learning 15. SnowmenTransforming lives through learning 16. SymmetryTransforming lives through learning 17. Weather ReportsTransforming lives through learning 18. How successful have these groups been? Thankfully, this winter (so far) has not been quite as harsh During the main three week school closure, supporting Glow Groupscreated for this purpose in West Lothian and Aberdeenshireregistered very close to 1million page impressions.Transforming lives through learning 19. Virtual Campus The value of having a national virtual campus is clear, with manylocal authorities declaring high level interest in it School-level interest in creation of a national solution has beensignificantly less Many local authorities have created their own virtual campus,including Highlands, West Lothian, Aberdeen City, Fife, North Ayrshire, A National Virtual Campus forms part of the ICT in EducationProgramme, to be live for the 2013-2014 academic session We are currently advertising for new Development Officers, one ofwhom will be assigned to the Virtual CampusTransforming lives through learning 20. What do we mean by Virtual Campus? At a basic level, there are two distinct parts to what we mean whenwe discuss a Virtual Campus ContentThe resources that learners should interact with inside thecampus e-facilitator/e-moderatorThese are teachers who have mastered the skills of helpinglearners to learn remotely through making use of electroniccommunications. Local VCs focus mainly on content at the moment. It is our visionthat the National VC focuses on both content and facilitation. Tiree pupils taught French from Hermitage AcademyTransforming lives through learning 21. 1,000,000Transforming lives through learning 22. 540,000 /1,000,000Transforming lives through learning 23. 68,300/540,000Transforming lives through learning 24. How can SG & ES better support LAs? Current Glow Issue remains of pupils not knowing login details School retains ownership of rolling these out Media can be used to direct parents to LA contacts Moving forward? Encourage parents/carers to sign up easily? Simplify password reminders force challenge questions? Lessen burden on school admin to automate some tasks? Virtual Campus Keep visual with Regular updates Named person(s) Keep it realisticTransforming lives through learning 25. Glow Logins, Friday 9th March 2012Transforming lives through learning 26. Glow 2 Integrated Application SuiteTransforming lives through learning 27. www.educationscotland.gov.ukTransforming lives through learning