Exploring Sound – Music for All

Overview

Lorna Gourley is a peripatetic music teacher within South Ayrshire. She has found that Glow has been a great way to organise her resources and communicate with teachers and pupils throughout South Ayrshire, answering questions, offering resources and supporting learning.

Context

Lorna’s job as a peripatetic music teacher requires that she travels from school to school throughout the authority to deliver music in partnership with the schools. She found that in moving from place to place it was difficult to keep track of resources and remember to gather everything back in at the end of the working day for the next day. When she was in schools teachers and headteachers had lots of questions for her and she found herself answering the same questions from establishment to establishment.

Lorna had been using Glow for about a year when she met with the Glow support team within her authority to develop two music Glow groups. After a Building Glow communities event for ASN Lorna found out about Hotspots and hidden pages and saw this as a great way forward for supporting learners with coordination diffciulties and learners in the Early Years.  Lorna has creted  group where children can listen to a variety of musical instruments and even an orchestra at the click of a button.  She has insured that all resources are copy-right friendly by creating many of them on her own and linking directly to well known web sites.

 As Lorna is moving around within the authority it was deemed best to have these groups created at Local Authority level so that everyone throughout the authority could have access and make use of the resource.

*Watch Lorna guide us through her Glow groups to show how she is supporting teachers and pupils in music using Glow

 Ingredients

*Glow username and password

*Access at Local Authority level to create a Glow Group at this level

Recipe

*How to add Glow Groups to My Favourites

*How to change page titles

*How to add images for hotspots

*How to create hidden pages and hotspot to them

Impact

*Watch Lorna tell us all about her work