Overview

Chatting about a message for the discussion board

P1 pupils in 5 schools in 3 local authorities started using Glow to facilitate a book project on the subject of Julia Donaldson books. Initially St James’s Primary school in Paisley, Renfrewshire, had wanted to undertake a literacy project and thought Glow would be an interesting way to open this up and make links with other schools at the same time. Athelstaneford Primary school in East Lothian was also interested in taking this forward. Through the teachers collaborating within the national Collaborative Projects group within Glow, schools in Renfrewshire, East Lothian and East Dunbartonshire decided to work together over a period of 6 weeks. Although there are many aspects we could focus on for this group, in this Cookbook we will learn what was involved in bring a Picture Library web part onto the page and configuring the settings of this to allow pupil work to be shared across the schools. There was much pupil work that came as a spin-off from the project which wasn’t expected by the teachers involved. In other Cookbooks on this project additional aspects will be investigated.
Although the group was developed as the project continued for the teachers involved, a similar project could be done with very little customisation of a Glow group and very little information added. Throughout this Cookbook we will concentrate on the simple usage of the group for the purposes of making use of the Picture Library web part, although there are obviously options for further development which were taken within this particular group.

Context

Gruffalo Masks at St James's

Anne Louise Nicholson had originally wanted to work on a literacy project with P1 which could have a different dimension from other projects, she wanted to be able to extend outside of the classroom. Having used Glow for groups within the whole school previously this seemed like the logical next step. Through participation in the National Collaborative Projects group Ms Nicholson had made contact with Lynne Lewis from Athelstaneford Primary in East Lothian who was keen to take this forward with her.
The project was expanded by Anne Louise Nicholson and Lynne Lewis to other schools from East Lothian, Sarah Boyd at Longniddry Primary and Emma Kerr at Pencaitland Primary and also Laura Kerr at Lairdsland Primary in East Dunbartonshire. Eventually the project comprised of 5 different P1 classes across 3 different local authorities. Within the main, each class used only a teacher machine with web cam/microphone and speakers, although St James’s (Paisley) in Renfrewshire arranged for the pupils to use computers individually to contribute to Discussion Boards and to upload their work to be shared. Ms Nicholson at St James’s took the responsibility of setting up the Glow Group with the required web parts.

Naomi's work from the Picture Library

In the main regular web conferencing, or Glow Meet sessions were held with all schools participating. Each of these was led by a different school and the teachers had planned what the content and context of each session would be. All of this was building towards the final Glow Meet session where the schools would join with the author Julia Donaldson. Over a period of a number of weeks pupils were motivated to undertake work outside of the Glow Meet sessions to share with other pupils. Anne Louise Nicholson was surprised by how eager they were to share their work with the other pupils. In this Cookbook we will look at the way an additional page in the group was used to allow the pupil work to be shared with all the schools. The whole project had already taken place when we spoke to the teachers which allowed us to have a complete view of how the entire project had gone and its impact on the pupils and teachers involved. We will concentrate on St James’s (Paisley) in Renfrewshire for illustration in this Cookbook.
In discussion with Ms Nicholson we learned that the project had set out to address many experiences and outcomes from Curriculum for Excellence but we have selected a few of these pertinent to our concentration on using the Picture Library web part to share work:
Experiences – Listening and Talking
• LIT 0-01b– I enjoy exploring and choosing stories and other texts to watch, read and listen to, and can share my likes and dislikes.
• LIT 0-01c – I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts, sharing my thoughts in different ways.
• LIT 0-04a – I listen or watch for useful or interesting information and I use this to make choices or learn new things.

Experiences – Reading
• LIT 0-07a / LIT 0-16a / ENG 0-17a– To help me understand stories and other texts, I ask questions and link what I am learning to what I already know.

Ingredients
• 5 P1 classes
• Each teacher needed a computer with an internet connection
• Each teacher needed a Glow username and password
• Membership of the National level group which had been set up for the project
• Screen to project onto to enable whole class to see for web conference sessions
• New page added to Glow Group
• Picture Library web part added to the page
• New document web part created and added to the page
• Julia Donaldson books for each class
• Several Glow Meet or web conferencing sessions with all the schools involved
• Participation from the author Julia Donaldson for the last session
• Planning documents for the project shared and agreed on by each teacher

In the next sections, we’ll learn how to recreate the elements of the Glow group that the teachers used for the project. In particular, we’ll find out how to add a new page to a group, add a Picture Library web part and configure this and also how to create and add a new document library to the page. Each video lasts for around 2 minutes and you can choose which section to watch at any time.

Recipe

The Other Work page of the Glow Group

The videos begin by quickly showing the Glow Group with the additional page for “Other Work” added and then develop into explaining how a page can be added to a Glow Group and then move through adding a text editor web part for information and then adding the Picture Library web part and changing the settings of this to allow comments to be displayed. We will then look at creating a new documents web part and adding this to the page to provide a different way for pupils to upload and share their work.

Videos

The finished Other Work page (2:20)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Adding the Other Work page to the group (1:43)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Adding a text editor web part and adding information and instructions (3:28)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Adding the Picture Library web part and changing the settings to allow description and comments (9:55)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Creating a new document web part and adding this to the page (3:20)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Impact

The videos finish with a longer tour through the Glow Group and an interview with Anne Louise Nicholson on how the project came about, why they needed a page for “Other Work” and how they used this. Anne Louise explains that her pupils were very motivated to work on activities outside of the actual Glow Meet sessions taking place. They were very motivated by the thought of an external audience and this led them to concentrate more fully on the content, the presentation and layout of their work.
Videos
Tour through the finished Glow Group (8:35)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Interview with Anne Louise Nicholson on unexpected pupil work (1:44)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Additional Interview with Ann Louise on unexpected pupil work (2:20)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Interview with Anne Louise Nicholson about how the project began (2:10)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Pupil Work

Morgan's finger spaces in the Picture Library

Further information on using the Picture Library web part can be found in a number of places: searching on Glow Help at the bottom of every page will bring you information; clicking the Learning about Glow link on the left-hand navigation bar will take you to a menu where you will be able to access a Glow training guide on Glow Groups which contains a section on this web part.

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 click here.  The principles around the benefits of Glow Meet are the same regardless of the technology used for Glow Meet.

Overview
P1 pupils in 5 schools in 3 local authorities started using Glow to facilitate a book project on the subject of Julia Donaldson books. Initially St James’s Primary school in Paisley, Renfrewshire, had wanted to undertake a literacy project and thought Glow would be an interesting way to open this up and make links with other schools at the same time. Athelstaneford Primary school in East Lothian was also interested in taking this forward. Through the teachers collaborating within the national Collaborative Projects group within Glow, schools in Renfrewshire, East Lothian and East Dunbartonshire decided to work together over a period of 6 weeks. Although there are many aspects we could focus on for this group, in this Cookbook we will learn what was involved in creating and adding a Staff Page which the teachers used to organise the project. In other Cookbooks on this project additional aspects will be investigated.

Context

The Julia Donaldson Glow Meet session

Anne Louise Nicholson had originally wanted to work on a literacy project with P1 which could have a different dimension from other projects, she wanted to be able to extend outside of the classroom. Having used Glow for groups within the whole school previously this seemed like the logical next step. Through participation in the National Collaborative Projects group Anne Louise had made contact with Lynne Lewis from Athelstaneford Primary in East Lothian who was keen to take this forward with her.
The project was expanded by Anne Louise Nicholson and Lynne Lewis to other schools from East Lothian, Sarah Boyd at Longniddry Primary and Emma Kerr at Pencaitland Primary and also Laura Kerr at Lairdsland in East Dunbartonshire. Eventually the project comprised of 5 different P1 classes across 3 different local authorities. Within the main, each class used only a teacher machine with web cam/microphone and speakers, although St James’s (Paisley) in Renfrewshire allowed the pupils to use computers individually to contribute to Discussion Boards. Ms Nicholson at St James’s took the responsibility of setting up the Glow Group with the required webparts and creating the Staff Page.

In the main regular web conferencing, or Glow Meet sessions were held with all schools participating. Each of these was led by a different school and the teachers had planned what the content and context of each session would be. All of this was building towards the final Glow Meet session where the schools would join with the author Julia Donaldson. Over a period of a number of weeks the teachers involved communicated with each other and shared planning documents in the Staff Page of the group. The whole project had already taken place when we spoke to the teachers which allowed us to have a complete view of how the whole project had gone and its impact on the pupils and teachers involved. We will concentrate on St James’s (Paisley) in Renfrewshire for illustration within this Cookbook.
In discussion with Ms Nicholson we learned that the project had set out to address many experiences and outcomes from Curriculum for Excellence for the pupils involved as is outlined on other Glow Cookbooks in the project. However, in this Cookbook we will illustrate how the teachers were able to plan for how the project would support learning and teaching.

Ingredients
• 5 P1 classes
• Each teacher needed a computer with an internet connection
• Each teacher needed a Glow username and password
• Membership of the National level group which had been set up for the project
• New page added to Glow group
• New discussions web part created and added to page
• Web links web part added to page
• Document store web part added to page
• Teachers taking part in the discussions with each other and uploading web links for others to see and use
• Planning documents for the project shared and agreed on by each teacher

In the next sections, we’ll learn how to recreate the elements of the Glow Group that the teachers used for their planning for the project. In particular, we’ll find out how to add a new page to a group, create and add web parts to the page. Each video lasts for around 2 minutes and you can choose which section to watch at any time.

Recipe

The Staff Discussions web part

The videos begin by quickly showing the Glow Group with the additional Staff Page present and then develop into explaining how a page can be added to a Glow Group and then move through creating the new discussion web part and adding it to the page, along with adding the documents library and web links to this particular page. The videos finish with a longer tour through the Glow Group and an interview with Anne Louise Nicholson on why and how they used the Staff Page.
Further information on using these simple tools can be found in a number of places: searching on Glow Help at the bottom of every page will bring you information; clicking the Learning about Glow link on the left-hand navigation bar will take you to a menu where you will be able to access Glow training guides and online modules relating to these web parts. Of particular use in terms of this Cookbook would be guides and online modules relating to Glow Groups.

Videos

The finished Staff Page (1:01)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Staff Page

Adding the Staff Page to the group (1:32)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Staff Page

Creating a new discussion web part and adding this to the page (3:21)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Staff Page

Adding the documents and web links web parts to the Staff Page (4:12)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Staff Page

Impact

Shared staff weblinks and documents

The Staff Page added a dimension to the project which was invaluable in planning. As Anne Louise says in one of the clips, “It prevented us from re-inventing the wheel”. With so many Glow Meets happening between the schools and the project running over 5 primary ½ classes it was vital that there was an area in the group where teachers could make sure they were all on the same page. Without numerous phonecalls and emails having to be made, the teachers involved could always be ready for the next part of the project and up to date about aspects like running order of Glow Meet sessions.

Videos

Tour through the finished Glow Group (8:35)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Staff Page

Teacher usage of the Staff Page for the project (5:30)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Staff Page

Interview with Anne Louise Nicholson about how the project began (2:10)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Staff Page
Interview with Anne Louise Nicholson on the Staff Page (0:56)

Overview

Julia Donaldson Literacy Project – A Glow Meet with Julia Donaldson

P1 pupils in 5 schools in 3 local authorities started using Glow to facilitate a book project on the subject of Julia Donaldson books. Initially St James’s Primary school in Paisley, Renfrewshire, had wanted to undertake a literacy project and thought Glow would be an interesting way to open this up and make links with other schools at the same time. Athelstaneford Primary school in East Lothian was also interested in taking this forward. Through the teachers collaborating within the national Collaborative Projects group within Glow, schools in Renfrewshire, East Lothian and East Dunbartonshire decided to work together over a period of 6 weeks. Although there are many aspects we could focus on for this group, in this Cookbook we will learn what was involved in creating and adding a Glow Survey web part which the teachers and pupils used to vote for their favourite Julia Donaldson book ahead of the final Glow Meet session. In other Cookbooks on this project additional aspects will be investigated.

Although the group was developed as the project continued for the teachers involved, a similar project could be done with very little customisation of a Glow group and very little information added. Throughout this Cookbook we will concentrate on the simple usage of the group for the purposes of making use of the Glow Survey tool, although there are obviously options for further development which were taken within this particular group.

Context

The Julia Donaldson Literacy Project Glow Group

Anne Louise Nicholson had originally wanted to work on a literacy project with P1 which could have a different dimension from other projects, she wanted to be able to extend outside of the classroom. Having used Glow for groups within the whole school previously this seemed like the logical next step. Through participation in the National Collaborative Projects group Ms Nicholson had made contact with Lynne Lewis from Athelstaneford Primary in East Lothian who was keen to take this forward with her.

The project was expanded by Anne Louise Nicholson and Lynne Lewis to other schools from East Lothian, Sarah Boyd at Longniddry Primary and Emma Kerr at Pencaitland Primary and also Laura Kerr at Lairdsland in East Dunbartonshire. Eventually the project comprised of 5 different P1 classes across 3 different local authorities. Within the main, each class used only a teacher machine with web cam/microphone and speakers, although St James’s (Paisley) in Renfrewshire allowed the pupils to use computers individually to contribute to Discussion Boards. Pupils were logged on individually to respond to the “Book Factor” survey. Ms Nicholson at St James’s took the responsibility of setting up the Glow Group with the required webparts.

In the main regular web conferencing, or Glow Meet sessions were held with all schools participating. Each of these was led by a different school and the teachers had planned what the content and context of each session would be. All of this was building towards the final Glow Meet session where the schools would join with the author Julia Donaldson. Over a period of a number of weeks pupils voted for what their favourite Julia Donaldson book was using Glow’s Survey tool ahead of the final Glow Meet with Julia Donaldson herself. The whole project had already taken place when we spoke to the teachers which allowed us to have a complete view of how the whole project had gone and its impact on the pupils and teachers involved. We will concentrate on St James’s (Paisley) in Renfrewshire for illustration in this Cookbook.

In discussion with Ms Nicholson we learned that the project had set out to address many experiences and outcomes from Curriculum for Excellence but we have selected a few of these pertinent to our concentration on the Glow Survey tool:
Experiences – Listening and Talking
• LIT 0-01b– I enjoy exploring and choosing stories and other texts to watch, read and listen to, and can share my likes and dislikes.
• LIT 0-01c – I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts, sharing my thoughts in different ways.
• LIT 0-04a – I listen or watch for useful or interesting information and I use this to make choices or learn new things.

Experiences – Reading
• LIT 0-07a / LIT 0-16a / ENG 0-17a– To help me understand stories and other texts, I ask questions and link what I am learning to what I already know.

Ingredients
• 5 P1 classes
• Each teacher needed a computer with an internet connection
• Each teacher needed a Glow username and password
• Membership of the National level group which had been set up for the project
• Screen to project onto to enable whole class to see for web conference sessions
• New page added to Glow group
• Glow Survey created and web part added to Glow group
• Julia Donaldson books for each class
• Several Glow Meet or web conferencing sessions with all the schools involved
• Participation from the author Julia Donaldson for the last session
• Planning documents for the project shared and agreed on by each teacher

St James's pupils and the Funny Face Song

In the next sections, we’ll learn how to recreate the elements of the Glow group that the teachers used for the project. In particular, we’ll find out how to add a new page to a group, create a Glow Survey and add this web part to the page. And also how pupils can respond or vote in the survey and how the teachers can change the view options at different times on the survey. Each video lasts for around 2 minutes and you can choose which section to watch at any time.

Recipe
The videos begin by quickly showing the Glow Group with the additional page and the survey added and then develop into explaining how a page can be added to a Glow Group and then move through creating the Glow Survey web part, adding this to the page along with a text editor web part. We will also look at configuring the web part, pupils responding and a graphical summary being displayed for pupils on the page. The videos finish with a longer tour through the Glow Group and an interview with Anne Louise Nicholson on why and how they used the survey tool.

The Book Factor Page of the Glow Group

Further information on using the Glow Survey tool can be found in a number of places: searching on Glow Help at the bottom of every page will bring you information; clicking the Learning about Glow link on the left-hand navigation bar will take you to a menu where you will be able to access the Glow Groups training guide which has a section on surveys.

Videos

The finished page in the group (0:53)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Book Factor

Adding a new page to a group (1:36)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Book Factor

Adding a text editor web part for instructions (3:10)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Book Factor

Creating the Survey web part and adding it to the page (4:48)C
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Book Factor

Configuring the survey web part and responding (3:19)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Book Factor

Impact
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Book Factor

A tour through the finished Glow Group (8:35)

Interview with Anne Louise Nicholson about how the project began (2:10)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Book Factor

Interview with Anne Louise Nicholson on the Glow Survey Tool (1:12)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Book Factor

Overview

St James's pupils and the Funny Face Song

P1 pupils in 5 schools in 3 local authorities started using Glow to facilitate a book project on the subject of Julia Donaldson books. Initially St James’s Primary school in Paisley, Renfrewshire, had wanted to undertake a literacy project and thought Glow would be an interesting way to open this up and make links with other schools at the same time. Athelstaneford Primary school in East Lothian was also interested in taking this forward. Through the teachers collaborating within the national Collaborative Projects group within Glow, schools in Renfrewshire, East Lothian and East Dunbartonshire decided to work together over a period of 6 weeks. Although there are many aspects we could focus on for this group, in this Cookbook we will learn what was involved in adding the Glow Meet web part, in joining a Glow Meet session and how this culminated in the author herself joining the schools in a live session. In other Cookbooks on this project additional aspects will be investigated.

Although the group was developed as the project continued for the teachers involved, a similar project could be done with very little customisation of a Glow group and very little information added. Throughout this Cookbook we will concentrate on the simple usage of the group for the purposes of using Glow Meet, although there are obviously options for further development which were taken within this particular group.

In the recipe section of the Cookbook you will find several videos to take you through the process of setting up your own Glow Group should you wish to undertake a similar project. At the very end of the Cookbook there is an impact section containing a video interview with one of the teachers involved in the project.

Context

Anne Louise Nicholson had originally wanted to work on a literacy project with P1 which could have a different dimension from other projects, she wanted to be able to extend outside of the classroom. Having used Glow for groups within the whole school previously this seemed like the logical next step. Through participation in the National Collaborative Projects group Anne Louise Nicholson had made contact with Lynne Lewis from Athelstaneford Primary in East Lothian who was keen to take this forward with her.

Athelstoneford Puppet Show for Julia Donaldson Project

The project was expanded by Anne Louise Nicholson and Lynne Lewis to other schools from East Lothian, Sarah Boyd at Longniddry Primary and Emma Kerr at Pencaitland Primary and also Laura Kerr at Lairdsland in East Dunbartonshire. Eventually the project comprised of 5 different P1 classes across 3 different local authorities. Within the main, each class used only a teacher machine with web cam/microphone and speakers, although St James’s (Paisley) in Renfrewshire allowed the pupils to use computers individually to contribute to Discussion Boards. Anne Louise at St James’s took the responsibility of setting up the Glow Group with the required webparts.

Lairdsland Primary Julia Donaldson Glow Meet

In the main regular web conferencing, or Glow Meet sessions were held with all schools participating. Each of these was led by a different school and the teachers had planned what the content and context of each session would be. All of this was building towards the final Glow Meet session where the schools would join with the author Julia Donaldson. The whole project had already taken place when we spoke to the teachers which allowed us to have a complete view of how the project had gone and its impact on the pupils and teachers involved. We will concentrate on St James’s (Paisley) in Renfrewshire for illustration in this Cookbook.

In discussion with Anne Louise Nicholson we learned that the project had set out to address many experiences and outcomes from Curriculum for Excellence but we have selected a few of these pertinent to our concentration on Glow Meet:

Experiences – Listening and Talking

• LIT 0-01a– I enjoy exploring and playing with the patterns of language and can use what I learn.
• LIT 0-01b– I enjoy exploring and choosing stories and other texts to watch, read and listen to, and can share my likes and dislikes.
• LIT 0-01c – I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts, sharing my thoughts in different ways.
• LIT 0-02a / ENG 0-03a – As I listen and talk in different situations, I am learning to take turns and am developing my awareness of when to talk and when to listen.
• LIT 0-04a – I listen or watch for useful or interesting information and I use this to make choices or learn new things.
• LIT 0-09a – Within real and imaginary situations, I share experiences and feelings, ideas and information in a way that communicates my message.

Experiences – Reading

• LIT 0-07a / LIT 0-16a / ENG 0-17a– To help me understand stories and other texts, I ask questions and link what I am learning to what I already know.

Ingredients

• 5 P1 classes
• Each teacher needed a computer with an internet connection
• Each teacher needed  a Glow username and password
• Membership of the National level group which had been set up for the project
• Simple web camera
• Speakers
• Microphone
• Screen to project onto to enable whole class to see for web conference sessions
• New page added to Glow group
• Glow Meet web part added to Glow group and configured
• Julia Donaldson books for each class
• Several Glow Meet or web conferencing sessions with all the schools involved
• Participation from the author Julia Donaldson for the last session
• Planning documents for the web conferencing sessions shared and agreed on by each teacher

Julia Donaldson Literacy Project Glow Group

In the next sections, we’ll learn how to recreate the elements of the Glow group that the teachers used for the project. In particular, we’ll find out how to add a new page to a group, add a Glow Meet web part and configure this and join a Glow Meet session. Each video lasts for around 2 minutes and you can choose which section to watch at any time.

Recipe

The videos begin by quickly showing the Glow Group with the additional page and the Glow Meet web part and then develop into explaining how a page can be added to a Glow Group and then move through adding the Glow Meet web part, configuring it and onto joining a Glow Meet session. The videos finish with a longer tour through the Glow Group and an interview with one of the teachers involved.

What does the group with the additional page and the Glow Meet web part look like? (0:25)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Glow Meet

Adding the new page to the Glow Group (1:18)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Glow Meet

Adding the Glow Meet web part (1:22)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Glow Meet

Creating the Glow Meet room (2:53)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Glow Meet

Joining the Glow Meet (1:57)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Glow Meet

Where to get additional help with Glow Meet (1:47)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Glow Meet

An extended tour of the Glow Group (8:35)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Glow Meet

Further information on using the Glow Meet tool can be found in a number of places: searching on Glow Help at the bottom of every page will bring you information; clicking the Learning about Glow link on the left-hand navigation bar will take you to a menu where you will be able to access the Glow Meet training guide or the Glow Meet online tutorial.

Impact

In this section you will be able to view a short excerpt of an video interview with Anne Louise Nicholson from St James’s Primary school (Paisley) in Renfrewshire. Please see other Cookbooks on this project for interviews with Anne Louise on different aspects of the project.

Interview with Anne Louise Nicholson on the Glow Meet sessions (1:36)
Primary 1 Literacy – Julia Donaldson Books – Glow Meet