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SETT 06 over

Well, thats the two days of SETT over and I am now sitting in my hotel room relaxing. Its very hard being on your feel continiously. It was very good to see that many people are getting quite excited aboout the Glow project.

See http://www.glowscotland.org.uk

It does seem that people are generally quite impressed by what has been on show at the Exibition hall. It will be some time before the Glow service comes online. Its likely to be at least another year before users will be able to start to make proper use of it. There will be a series of pilot phases which will allow the developers to ensure that any bugs in the system are sorted before it is exposed to the masses.

When full service is achieved it will support the entire education community in Scotland which will consist of some 800 000 users.

Some people would consider that the system is based on well established applications which is of course true. However, the system as is stands is actually a firm basis for developing a range of other applications such as Bloggs, Wikies etc etc.

This is a space that is well worth watching! I will be very interesting to see what teahers and pupils actually do with the system once it comes into full service. I would expect that the users will do some things which we would find it very hard to predict.

As one of the people who has been involved in the Glow project for some time it is very rewarding to see the beginings of a product which was only in idea a year ago.

2 thoughts on “SETT 06 over”

  1. Without providing a means to publish to a wider audience (i.e. beyond the intranet and out to the world) through a self publishing tool (perhaps a blog, but possibly a wiki, photo sharing app, audio sharing…), I worry that Glow will become irrelevant. Strong words, perhaps, but over the past two days the biggest excitement I have seen has been for these global audience technologies. Teachers, and students, want to have the opportunity to reach out to colleagues wherever they are and around the world.

    I’m really excited to see your post tonight with that good will to make social software build up on top of the current proposed infrastructure. The sooner the better, my tuppence worth would be πŸ˜‰

  2. Indeed Ewan,

    I am as convinced as you of the need to incorporate social software into the Glow experience. This will happen but not before we have established a solid and safe environment for the Scottish Education community. There is a huge amount of activity in the form of development and testing work taking place as we speak to get Glow established.

    Social software is very much on the agenda although not part of the current package.

    I am all for the use of social software with a global reach but I am also very aware of the need to provide an environment which can have restricted reach for certain types of users.

    It may take a little time but I am sure that we will get there in time πŸ˜‰

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