We have just announce the hope that phase 2 of the Glow Blogs project will go live sometime in January next year. This is a wee bit later than our original plans. Personally I am not too disappointed as I can see how hard the team across the Scottish Government and Code For The People (as was)1 are working.…
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Loading...Last Friday at the same time as the glow authentication changed, the new glow blogs service went live. I posted about this over on Glow Connect.
It was pretty exciting stuff, the developers were really working right up to the last minute and beyond to deliver the service.…
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…The Glow Blogs migration export will start on 19th September 2014
Any new posts or content added to blogs after that date will not be migrated to the new service.
The new service should be up and running by Oct 3rd 2014
The data from the current blog servers will be exported on the 19th of September and migrated to the new service ready for the go live date.
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super ruper by nnnnic Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
I’ve been trying to post information about the glow blogs migration here when I can, but still getting a few questions, via email, twitter etc. Here is a series of DMs:
…Hi John. Been following the progress of GlowBlogs and reading your own blog.
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I’ve spent a fair bit of time when working at North Lanarkshire and back in school in creating howto instructions for software or computer tasks. Generally this involves organizing a bunch of screenshots and text on a page. I usually use Pages (or sometime comiclife) occasionally Word.…
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Glow Connect is the information portal for Glow – a space for providing updates on the development and enhancement of the service and for sharing how teachers are using Glow.
This Glow Connect will be a central area for keeping up with glow development.…
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Lost Puppy flickr image by Tim Shields Creative Commons – CC BY-NC 2.0
Here are some notes around the effect that the glow blog migration will have on e-portfolios hosted on the WordPress instances. There are two main things to consider, users/members of blogs and links to access blogs.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...One of the biggest frustrations working on the glow projects is the limits it places on open communication. I was expecting to be able to blog ideas and thoughts as I progressed through the blog migration. It turns out that this might have lead to procurement and legal difficulties.…
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The Whole Gang, 50 Days old by Dean Searle Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
There is some background to this project in a previous post: Glow Blogs Summer 2014.
Before the migration of the glow portal Education Scotland suggested that schools did some pruning and tidying of their glow groups to make migration easier (less data) and so that users had less to sort through and sort out on the other end.…
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