Primary 7 using Glow to Support Learning

Please note that this cookbook refers to Glow Meet using Marratech.  Glow Meet is now delivered over Adobe Connect which offers enhanced functionality.  To find out more about Glow Meet using Adobe Connect then click here.  The principles around the benefits of Glow Meet are the same regardless of the technology used for Glow Meet.

Overview

Geraldine Shearer, Principal Teacher of Cathedral Primary in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire has responsibility for a Primary 7 class and wanted to use Glow to share ideas and resources and allow the learners to work together across the curriculum. Geraldine created a class group that is being used to support Curriculum for Excellence and to gather evidence of learners’ experiences. In this cookbook we will look at how Geraldine achieved this and the work she completed with Primary 7.

Context

*Watch a tour of the Glow Group

Geraldine has created a group for her class and added additional pages for language, maths and social subjects. To provide differentiated content, Geraldine has created pages for each language and maths grouping within her class. She uses these pages to provide specific work and targets for each ability group. Pupils are prompted to view the CfE outcomes and experiences they will be covering on each page. They are given the opportunity to set targets for themselves, using the Discussion web part, as a way of formulating a Personal Learning Plan for literacy, numeracy and Social Subject areas. Photographs are added to each group in order to give ownership for the learners of their own working space.

Geraldine and Primary 7 have also used the Glow Meet functionality to work  on a joint project with their associated secondary, Our Lady’s High School. This project involves all associated primary schools and its focus is to explore which people migrate to Scotland and the reasons behind this.

Within the Social Subjects pages Geraldine has been able to use picture manager to celebrate the children’s work and also to gather evidence to show experiences within CfE.  She has also uploaded video evidence of the children creating a volcano during a science experiment.  This makes the Glow group come alive and allows the children to revisit the work. It also allows evidence to be stored of an experience within CfE as written evidence is not always appropriate.

Ingredients

What did Geraldine need to get going?

1. A Glow Username and Password

Recipe
*How to add pages to a Glow Group

*How to change the title of a Glow Group

*How to add multiple Discussions for use as PLPs

*How to add multiple document libraries in a Glow Group

*How to make text move across the page

*How to add images in a photo frame

Curriculum for Excellence Outcomes and Experiences

*When listening and talking with others for different purposes, I can:

• share information, experiences and opinions

• explain processes and ideas

• identify issues raised and summarise main points or findings

• clarify points by asking questions or by asking others to say more. LIT 2-09a

*I am developing confidence when engaging with others within and beyond my place of learning. I can communicate in a clear, expressive way and I am learning to select and organise resources independently. LIT 2-10a

*I can make notes, organise them under suitable headings and use them to understand information, develop my thinking, explore problems and create new texts, using my own words as appropriate. LIT 2-15a

*I can spell most of the words I need to communicate, using spelling rules, specialist vocabulary, self-correction techniques and a range of resources. LIT 2-21a

*Throughout the writing process, I can check that my writing makes sense and meets its purpose. LIT 2-23a

*I consider the impact that layout and presentation will have and can combine lettering, graphics and other features to engage my reader. LIT 2-24a

*I can persuade, argue, explore issues or express an opinion using relevant supporting detail and/or evidence. LIT 2-29a

Impact

*Watch Geraldine discuss the impact of using Glow

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