What is GLOW and What Does it Mean for Pupils, Staff

and Parents?

Jane MacAulay

ICT Coordinator

What is Glow?

• Glow is the world's first national intranet for education, developed exclusively for Scotland’s educational community.

• Breaking geographical and social barriers, Glow allows joined-up working the length and breadth of Scotland.

What is Glow?

• Glow has been produced through funding from the Scottish Government and Learning Teaching Scotland

• Glow can be accessed via the LTS websitehttp://www.ltscotland.org.uk/usingglowandict/index.asp

What does this mean?• Pupils can access the internet, learning

resources and develop their ICT skills in a SAFE environment

• Staff can access educational software, online resources to enhance education

• Parents can feel secure that their son/daughter are learning in a SAFE environment

• In the future parents will be able to access information via Glow that is being used in school

Pupils

Staff

Parents• Parents will soon have access to Glow

• Parents will have their own individual logons

• They will be able to share information with the school and access its resources