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Midlothian Reading Challenge

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The Midlothian Reading Challenge is for pupils to read 6 texts between 23rd January and 30th March 2012 outwith normal school reading tasks. There is a Glow Wiki for pupils to add reviews of what they have read.  Pupils will be able to read the reviews from other Midlothian schools. Read more…

BBC Scotland Robert Burns Audio Archive

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This BBC Scotland Robert Burns archive has been three years in the making and features more than 700 poems and songs of Robert Burns. A total of 66 readers contributed recordings, from the short to the epic.  There is also biographical material and information about Burns’ night in this excellent resource.  Click here to visit the site.

Midlothian ICT Courses – January to June 2012

The ICT Development Team are running a series of courses from January to June 2012.   More information can be found by clicking on the course title.

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December’s Top 20 Midlothian Glow Groups

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These are the 20 most accessed Glow Groups in Midlothian during December 2011.  Read more…

Midlothian Youth Platform Elections

This is your opportunity to select someone to represent your school at a local authority wide level on Midlothian’s youth council known as Midlothian Youth Platform – MYP.   

Click here to check out their written statements and short films and make the right decision for you! GET VOTING!  Read more…

ICT Loanbank Requests

Class teachers are now able to  request resources from the ICT Loanbank Glow Group.

The  e-mail address for requests and  availability of individual resources can be found here

Year 2 Learning Community

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If you completed your probationary year just before the summer then this Learning Community is for you.  It is for all primary and secondary teachers who have just finished the Induction Year, whether they are permanent, temporary or on the supply register.  Teachers that completed their NQT year in other Authorities are also very welcome. Read more…

Glow Passwords

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It’s that time after the holidays when you try to log into Glow only to find that you have forgotten your password or you end up entering the wrong password and locking yourself out! Here are some tips and information which might help.

Remember that your Glow username is the same as your network username but with the letters MC in front If you type the wrong password in 3 times, you will be locked out. This is Read more…

All Student Easymail Boxes moved on 1st July!

All students should now be using Glow for Email. Your email at student.mgfl.net will be wiped clean and the system switched off this Friday afternoon. Contact your school for your Glow username and password.

Cats and Dogs and ICT

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Ms Deyenberg, a Primary 1 teacher at Paradykes, has used a wide range of ICT to support an animals’ topic.  Nintendogs on  the DS Lite, Kinectimals on the XBox, digital stills cameras and Flip Cams were some of the technology used independently by the children . They were also able to take a  camera home to work with parents in recording the care of a virtual pet.  A short video and a topic mindmap can be viewed in Read more…