What is the future of Glow now that the ICT Excellence Group report is in and the recommendations have been made? How can the agile development of the future GlowPlus [ … ]
Category: Future of Glow
Posts relating to the future of Glow, Scotland’s National Intranet for Education
Glew: What other’s are saying
So much has been said about the development of Glew as a platform for learning that I thought it would be useful to bring the key posts together so that [ … ]
GlowPlus: Understanding Social Network Integration
In a recent Holyrood magazine article, John McCarney (head of education services at RM Education – the current Glow provider) demonstrated a lack of understanding of the “security issues” and [ … ]
Glew Scalability and Security
Earlier today I read a great piece by Paris Gourtsoyannis of Holyrood magazine. The item was focused on what happens next with the ICT Excellence Group report and raises some [ … ]
Office 365 Web Apps with Amazon Kindle HD
I thought I would have a go with an Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Office 365 Wave 14. I already know that the email, calendar and contacts is rock solid [ … ]
Office 365 / Wave 14: Mobile support
In November 2012, I spent a weekend testing Office 365 Wave 15 Preview on mobile devices and some limited testing on Mac and Windows. The results of that testing are [ … ]
Glow Office 365: Email…shhh it’s already there.
Envious of all the LAs who are ahead of you in the national roll out of Office 365 email? Want to access your Glow/Office365 email account right now? Looks like [ … ]
GlewTiles UI – an OpenSource alternative
The aim of Glew was always to develop a system to bring together the best of the web and OpenSource and free software tools for learning. The core Glew portal [ … ]
Mobile Devices: The next lock-down after filtering
The initial discussion paper from the ICT Excellence Group makes a number of proposals about the use of mobile devices and bring your own technology (BYOT). These are exciting ideas [ … ]
Office 365 / Wave 15: Mobile support
Introduction Office 365 for Education consists of Microsoft Office 2013 web apps for Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and OneNote and the SharePoint 2013 environment for managing documents, teams, groups, sites and [ … ]