Staff Support – Using Hotspots

Overview
Margaret Vass is currently seconded as Curriculum Support Teacher for Falkirk Council and as part of her remit she has supported the introduction of Glow to her colleagues. Margaret has created a Glow group for staff to find support and share ideas with each other on their Glow experiences. As a visual learner Margaret has created support guides for Glow to help staff to use the components within Glow.

Context
Margaret has received training in Glow and found that she wanted to create easy ‘How to’ videos for the components within Glow to suit her learning style. She has received some training in the use of Hotpots in Glow and thought that this tool was a great way for other sto use Glow in their school groups.
Hotspots are images or words which are hyperlinked to other Glow pages and Web sites and allows easy access for the user to a range of resources predetermined by the creator of the group.
When Margaret received the training for this she wanted to create a step by step guide for others to use as an easy to access resource. She considered using Powerpoint for this however she quickly realised that for some users Slide share can take a while to load and as a result created a Prezi resource which is easily uploaded and viewed by others.

*Margaret gives a tour of her work

Ingredients
*Glow Username and Password
*Authorised to create Glow groups at Local Authority Level

Recipe
*How to add members to a Glow group

*How to add, remove and change the title of pages

*How to add hotspots to an image

*How to upload a Presi into Glow

Impact

*Margaret talks about impact of using Glow

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