Laurie O'Donnell

This lovely book has just arrived through the post. The author is my good friend Milton Chen, former executive director and now senior fellow at the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). Those with a long memory may recall that George Lucas, the Star wars director, spoke about Glow at the US House of Representatives in [...]

Another interview with Merlin John on innovation at LTS. This time for Futurelab’s online magazine.
It sits well with the interview with Michael Hallisay in my previous post as a good description of what we were trying to do when I was at LTS. It’s for others to judge the success or otherwise but few countries [...]

International Podcast #15 interview with Michael Hallisay. Discussion of ICT developments in Scotland around June 2009.

I’ve been blogging about Glow for quite a few years now and have celebrated small each step along the way as the world’s first national schools intranet slowly became a reality.
This evening I was delighted to see my 13 year old daughter log onto Glow to do her maths homework. Although she decided to write [...]

More good news for Glow While I was in Barcelona I was delighted to hear that Falkirk Council has signed the Glow Customer Agreement (effectively the licence to make Glow available to teachers, pupils and parents in the local authority area).
That takes us to 31/32 of the Scottish local authorities. My understanding is [...]

The IMS Global Learning Consortium press release with all of the winners from the 2009 Learning Impact Summit has now been published. Looking down the list I think our competition was from only 5 continents rather than 6 as previously claimed.
LTS press release with comment from Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop.

Glow has picked up another prestigious award.
This time taking the top award at the IMS Global Learning Impact Summit in Barcelona. Great news for the Scottish Government, LTS and RM. Brilliant to get international recognition for the ambition, complexity and scale that characterises Glow.
PS Should also have given due credit to all the teachers, local [...]

On Monday and Tuesday of next week I will be speaking with colleagues from the Glow contractor, RM, at the IMS Global Learning Impact 2009 event in Barcelona.
Glow has been short-listed for the Global Learning Impact Award for 2009. Based on the scale and ambition of Glow I think that it will give the other [...]

 
Had a lovely morning at Perth High School launching The Winning Game within Glow.
The main force behind bringing the game to Scotland is Winning Scotland Foundation. The Winning Game is based on The Winning Theory of Yehuda Shinar and has been developed by Dundee based games company TPLD.
I think it is going to be a [...]

Another great example of how our national schools intranet is really starting to make an impact on learning across the country. This post from the Glow Scotland blog really made me smile with 60 schools and over 1,000 children joining together to hear the story of Percy the Puffin.