I’ve started a new blog Glowing Posts | Collecting interesting #GlowBlogs Posts.
The title says it all. The purpose of this new blog is to collect some examples of interesting ways that Glow Blogs are being used. I’ve found some good ones already.…
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Loading...I’ve not really checked out the new features of WordPress 4.4 in any depth but this new feature looks interesting. Just pasting a url to another WordPress blog post into the editor creates an embedded ‘card’ with some details.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I tried this iPhone app out before the summer on the recommendation of Ian Stuart. At that time it was not integrated with O365/Glow and its main selling point seemed to be it took great pictures of whiteboards and straightened them up nicely.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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.…
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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.…
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