A Busy Week
For most of last week I was in Orkney, with work. It was my first chance to really work with people at local authority level, and it was an entirely positive experience. The people, the set up and the future prospects for Glow in Orkney are all excellent, and I can’t wait to return early next month. 
Being so busy, though, I haven’t had time to write here. As work becomes busier, it’s harder to find time to write. I’ll do my best to make the time though. One thing worth noting this week though, is the fantastic front page article of the Times Educational Supplement Scotland this week. One of the most exciting examples I’ve seen of Glow being used in the classroom is Jaye Richards’ S3 biology Glow Site. Ms Richards has published an impressive piece of research which was referenced in TESS. Proof, if it were needed, that Glow opens up the most amazing opportunities for education in Scotland.
I also think it’s important that Scotland is a relatively small country. From an educational blogger’s point of view, there’s a core of consistently insightful practitioners who share their ideas and experiences online (many of whom are linked to from my blogroll) and it’s easy to feel a part of their community. I don’t know if that would be possible with a bigger population. The same probably goes for Glow- the idea of linking schools and local authorities doesn’t seem too huge and unachievable because neither the geographical nor the ideological distances between us is uncrossable.
