Glow supporting animation, transition and enterprise

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Overview

Alan Thomson is an ICT Development Officer working in Midlothian’s ICT Development Team. In this cookbook Alan describes how he set up a Glow Group at local authority level to facilitate collaborative projects across Midlothian and takes us on a tour through one of the successes to date.

Context

In response to requests from staff across Midlothian, Alan set up a Glow Group at local authority level aimed at enabling collaborative working, showcasing the work being done and sharing resources and expertise.

One such collaborative project showcased in the local authority group is an Animation and Enterprise project ran by Stobhill Primary School and the associate high school, Newbattle High School. In this cookbook, Alan talks us through how Glow supported the project work.

Ingredients

What Alan used to set up the Glow Group: 

1. A Glow Group
2. Tasks web part for the staff involved in the project to keep track of work to be done
3. Text Editor web parts to display video
4. Text Editor web part with hot spot links to other web sites
5. Documents web part to store resources

Recipe

In the first video below, Alan shows us how a Glow Group helped support the planning, implementation and showcasing of an Animation and Enterprise collaborative project. The other video clips will take you through how to replicate some of the activities that Alan demonstrates in the group:

Impact

By creating his Collaborative Projects in Midlothian group at local authority level, Alan has ensured that staff and pupils across Midlothian will have easy access to content published within the group. The Animation Projects Glow Group is a good example of how Glow can facilitate projects across schools. The Glow Group enables staff to work asynchronously when it suits them, share resources and ideas and showcase pupil work.  The wider educational community in Midlothian also benefit by being able to tap in to the knowledge, skills and expertise of staff and pupils in an area of work that they may not be familiar with.

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