A ‘one-stop shop’ to support Higher Graphic Communication

Context

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Peter Mulvey is a Technology teacher at Stonelaw High School in South Lanarkshire. He uses Glow as ‘a one-stop shop’ that provides pupils with the resources and support they need for their courses.

In the video clip below Peter shows the Glow Groups he has created to support the Higher Graphic Communication course.

Watch Peter’s tour of his Glow Group and Glow Learn course

Please note: during the tour Peter demonstrates how pupils can launch tutorials from the Glow Group. Unfortunately the screen capture software used to create this tour was unable to capture these. Rest assured that files such as these tutorials do play correctly when launched from Glow!

Peter makes extensive use of Document web parts to store video clips, reference guides and help sheets to reinforce the skills and concepts covered during lessons. As the Glow Groups developed Peter found that uploading large files to Glow Groups rapidly started to impact on the school’s 5Gb storage allocation. Peter has therefore started to upload many of his resources to Glow Learn, where there is no storage limit per school. He is appreciating the ease of management of resources in Glow Learn and the scope to build his resources, and objectives, into a course structure.

The Higher Graphic Communication pupils also make use of collaborative tools within the Glow Group, particularly Glow Chat. Homework tasks are set with a deadline a week ahead, and the day before the work is due Peter makes a chat room available for an hour in the evening so that pupils can discuss the work with him, or with each other, if they wish.

 Ingredients

In developing the Higher Graphic Communication Glow Groups Peter used:

*a Text Editor web part to display a Wordle image

* Document web parts to store videos and other resources

* Glow Meet

* Glow Chat

In developing the Glow Learn area, Peter:

* Uploaded resources

* Created a Glow Learn course

* Added resources and objectives to the course

Recipe

If you’d like to replicate some of Peter’s ideas, the resources below will help you get started.

* Using the Wordle web site: click here for a help article

* Using a crumb trail to navigate between areas of Glow

* Creating multiple Documents web parts

* Uploading resources to Glow Learn

* Creating a Glow Learn course

* Enrolling pupils on a Glow Learn course

* Setting viewing and assessment options in Glow Learn

Impact

For Peter, the over-riding benefit of Glow has been the ease with which pupils can access learning resources outside school and thereby extend their learning beyond school hours.

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