Last week I wrote a post about how the Falkirk VTC might be used as a vehicle to help introduce teachers here to GLOW. The staff area of the VTC was password protected until I came in to post and I’ve been thinking about its new look and feel for a while now. I’m hoping that it can soon be revamped (yet again!) and become the new Falkirk VTC Curriculum for Excellence site….. an August launch? - better get a move on :-)
So where does Glow fit in with these new plans for the VTC? Recently I spotted this section on the LTS website and I homed in on these words:
”As Glow rolls out to more local authorities in Scotland, the importance of its role in driving forward Curriculum for Excellence is becoming clear.”
So could our Local Authority do the reverse and use our new Curriculum for Excellence website to help the roll out of Glow here?
I’ve had a guest Glow account for a number of months now, and I’ve played around with looking at ways of uploading vokis and animoto videos to a Glow group I’ve made – audience of one so far 
I imagine it will be a while before all the classroom teachers here will be in a position to use Glow with their own classes. Those who are keen, though, will want to have a ‘play about’ just like I did. I wondered if setting a weekly or fortnightly ‘challenge’ on the VTC might be something that could help familiarise them with Glow – and at the same time introduce them to some of the great new freely available social software tools that (with a little imagination) can add so much to the teaching and learning experience.
When I was contemplating all this, I noticed some twitter posts from Con Morris. He talked about setting some of his LTS colleagues 10 CPD challenges such as:
- finding and using images
- writing for the web
- sharing presentations
- using (or starting) a National Glow group
….. and more.
I’m not sure of the context here, but Con did say in one of his posts:
……. ‘setting LTS colleagues 10 CPD Challenges on the 11th of June that befit a national devt officer in the 21st C.’ (I hasten to add that I did ask Con’s permission to quote his twitter ‘tweets’ here!)
If I do set some challenges (with support) for teachers to help them use Glow and some of the 21st C. online tools, will it have the positive effect that I think Con hopes for …….. or will it have the opposite effect like the one Jaye described in her comment she left on a previous post?
Hmmmm – time for yet another think, I think
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