Tag Archives: Christmas

Advent in Glow Blogs⤴

from @ news – Glow Blog Help

A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day.

Advent – Some H5P games and fun for Christmas

This site provides some simple examples of H5P content in Glow Blogs.

A little bit of fun every day in December for primary classes and examples of using H5P activities.

Another Glow Blogs Advent Calendar this one with a variety of activities & links. This one uses the Draw Attention plugin to make the calendar.

Both sites have descriptions of how they were made.

Of course you can use the same approach to ‘release’ activities and information on any schedule.

More information, instructions and examples for H5P on the H5P examples site and the draw attention plugin site
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Christmas Pudding⤴

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302/365 Christmas Pudding
302/365 Christmas Pudding flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Christmas is coming, the [vegetarian] goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man’s hat
If you haven’t got a penny, then a ha’penny will do
If you haven’t got a ha’penny, then God bless you!

Stir-Up Sunday is not till Nov 23rd this year, but it’s a dreich day and I’m off work with a cold so I thought it was time to get the Christmas pudding made this year. This is Mrs Beeton’s ‘rich’ pudding recipe. I omitted the milk and just used brandy and beer as liquid along with the eggs. It smells good already!

Stir Up Sunday⤴

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Today is Stir-up Sunday, the day when families gather around stir their homemade Christmas pudding on the last Sunday before advent begins. I made mine yesterday, as it takes seven hours to steam and we take lunch over to my MiL on Sundays. It’s a Mrs Beeton recipe, and fingers crossed it tastes as good as it smells.

Xmas Pudding

“Xmas Pudding” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Thinking about charms to put into this for a DS106 pudding. Here’s what I’m adding.

  • A coin for creativity
  • A wishbone for inspiration
  • A thimble for remix
  • A ring for connectivity
  • An anchor for community

The Christmas Break?⤴

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It’s that time of year when many teachers, pupils and parents feel like they are crawling to the festive finish line, eager for a mince-pie-filled break from all things school related. Yet Christmas is a time jam packed with hidden learning opportunities, spanning every curricular area you can shake a figgy pudding at. Moreover, the … Continue reading “The Christmas Break?”

An Advent Calendar in #GlowBlogs⤴

from @ wwwd – John's World Wide Wall Display

I’ve been asked about this sort of thing a few times now and not had an answer. It came to me on Friday, but I couldn’t test it at lunchtime as we had no internet in school.

I’ve played around with the idea this weekend and it works. Of course it could be a lot prettier.

Basically I’ve set up an Advent Calendar where you can click on doors to revel information. You can only see the content that has been published and the info is qued up in Scheduled posts (pages in this case).

Using the Draw Attention and my favourite Display Posts plugins. Here is the Demo: Advent Calendar – An Example Glow Blog for Christmas

Here is a gif.