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The talk will give a view of how blogging with WordPress fits well with Scottish education’s ‘Curriculum for excellence’. Some loose linkage of Community, Connections & Openness in software and education. How Glow blogs, a set of 32 multi-sites with a total of >160,000 blogs are used and are developing.
Tag Archives: glowblogs
Glow Blogs e-Portfolios Plugin, getting to 1.0
On Tuesday this week we released the Glow Blogs e-Portfolio plugin
The biggest reason for creation of a blogs in the Glow Blogs system has be e-Portfolios. There are 10s of thousands in the system. Until now the system used was based on one of 60 different e-Portfolio themes created by Alex Duff during his time at Education Scotland.…
UoD EduShare
Derek described the project succinctly:
@johnjohnston @simonwheatley @justlikeair WP central to our aim of nurturing a collegiate & collaborative digital culture in our Teacher Ed
— Derek P Robertson (@derekrobertson) November 7, 2015
On of the things I am most happy about in my involvement in Glow Blogs is the syndication plugin.…
Sway in Glow
Glow Blogs and Video
A few days ago @GlowScot pointed me to this tweet:
Wondering best way to have videos in a @GlowScot WordPress Blog? Can I upload to Sharepoint and embed? Don't really want to use YouTube. Ta!
— Karl Barrs (@KarlBarrs) September 22, 2015
After a few exchanges I ended up with:
@KarlBarrs @BKPrimary @dgilmour @GlowScot can increase by request.
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Glow Blogs at Scottish Learning Festival
I’ve spent the last couple of days talking about Glow and Glow Blogs in particular at the Scottish Learning Festival.
Today I was co-presenting at a seminar on Blogs with Mrs Andrea Hunter and three of her pupils from Whinhill Primary.…
Glow Blogs at SLF
I’ll be talking about Glow Blogs in a seminar at SLF on Thursday along with Andrea Hunter PT at Whinhill Primary School and some of her pupils. Andrea’s class blog at Diary of a Whinhill Pupil.
I’ll be at SLF both days spending some time on the Glow stand.…
Podcasting podcast on GlowCast
I’ve just posted this podcast episode over at GlowCast. GlowCast is a podcast for myself and colleagues in Glow. A short 3-4 minutes listen. The transcript is on the original post.…
Blogging advice and Bootcamp #2
Top 10 Reasons for Students to Blog by sylviaduckworth CC-BY
I tweeted this lovely image the other day when I saw it on Classroom Blogging Options the other day. The Glow Blogs option was not discussed but I’d hope that it would be under consideration for Scottish learners and teachers.…