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Glow - Future Tools

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Saved by Hamish Budge
on September 27, 2011 at 8:48:13 am
 

Glow has been a major part of our nation's development in technologies for learning.  Some great work has been carried out with Glow and many resources have been created with it.  It has given many teachers and pupils a safe and closed environment to explore tools that the on-line world can provide. It allows secure sharing and collaboration across the whole of Scotland.

 

The announcement asked us to consider the best free services and tools which we could use to extend Glow.

 

Current Services and Future Replacements

 

Current Service  Possible Replacement 1  Possible Replacement 2  Possible Replacement 3 
Glow Groups  Google Sites  Google Groups   
Discussion Forums (phpBB) self hosted phpBB forums Facebook   
Blogs self hosted Wordpress MS Blogger Wordpress.com
GlowMail GMail Hosted mail solution  Live @ Edu 
GlowMeet continue with Adobe Connect Solution (but open up the mobile app too) Google+/Google Talk(?)  JaNet Desktop VC 
Kelidos (VLE) self hosted Moodle self hosted Sakai  
Shibboleth (authentication service) Agreement with OpenID Google+ Twitter 
Wikis (MindTouch)  MindTouch MediaWiki  
GlowLight iGoogle    
ePortfolio (currently using WP Blogs) Mahara (possible integration with Moodle) also keeping current WP blogs My Showcase  (has a Moodle plugin) wordpress without glow complications

 

New Services 

New Service  Possible Provider 1 Possible Provider 2  Possible Provider 3 
Video (including transcoding of uploads)  YouTube (Edu?)  Vimeo.com  Teachertube 
Document Editing/Online Office Tools  Google Docs  Office 365   
Activity Stream  Google+ Buddypress   Facebook 
Achievements/Rewards System Mozilla OpenBadges Buddypress Achievements  
Learning Object Content Repository  ??     
 
     

 

Services

Many of the services above would fall under the Google Apps for Edu service. Offered free to education these tools could become the new "core" of Glow and make use of our single sign-on. Another alternative could be the Microsoft Live @ Edu offering.

 

Other thoughts 

How do we take forward the best of the services of the web together with our single sign on? Which of these features should we retain? What other online services could we use as replacements.  Is there scope for partnership with providers to have Glow landing pages and sign-on at other services sites?   single sign on? 

How for instance to we maintain links between current service and National Assessment Resource ( NAR ) and also build links to on-line assessment like SOLAR. There will too be some content that may be hosted remotely but will require authentication.- ideally authentication that can differentiate between teacher and learner.

 

Do we need to develop/obtain a Glow API so that third-parties can develop applications that use Glow content? Could a third-party API (such as that used with Google Docs) do the job for us?

 

 

Other points of reference

Lots of great content and examples of great use has happened inside Glow. But what about outside? Where is the great practise which we should consider when looking to the future?

  • Edubuzz is a learning network for learners in East Lothian, Scotland.
  • CompEdNet: an educational community for sharing and discussion between Scottish Computing Teachers. 
  • Sputnik: a mailing list run by the Institute of Physics and used by many physics teachers in Scotland.  

 

 

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