Office 365 out of the box is neither intuitive or built for learning, but with some set up and direction it could be a very effective environment for online, blended and [ … ]
Tag: Glow
Technology for Learning? Focus on Learning and Teaching
Where exactly should we be going with online learning, safe environments and collaborative spaces for teachers and learners? What is the future of the tools, platforms and services that are [ … ]
If I ruled the world…
…a few ideas to help develop Glow and Technology across Learning in Scotland today. There are great things happening across the Scottish education sector with emerging technologies and we need [ … ]
Technology Changes Everything…Eventually.
Technology has changed the way we live. Almost every aspect of our lives has changed. Communication, Entertainment, Transport, Manufacturing, Services have all been dramatically changed through the application of technology. [ … ]
Glow Authentication and Shibboleth persistentID
What happens when you change your Identity provider when you use Shibboleth as your system for authentication? Glow uses Shibboleth and changing IdP can break your services. In this post I explain it in plain English.
Glowing pains and migration
The migration of the existing Glow content to Office 365 isn’t really going as planned. I’ve spent that last few days browsing around the first batch of LA sites to [ … ]
Glow and CfE support – the elephant in the room?
Uninspired in a digital age? Does anyone else find the most recent release of support resources for CfE from Education Scotland uninspiring? I’m really happy to have a level of [ … ]
A National Campus in the Cloud?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of a National Campus for Scotland. This idea has been floating around for a couple of years but ADES have now [ … ]
GlowPlus? The Agile Solution
In my previous post I posed several questions. How can a small agile development group ensure the delivery of a service to over a million users, the security of their [ … ]
GlowPlus? Risks and questions
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 [ … ]