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H5P Christmas Advent in Glow Blogs⤴

from @ wwwd – John's World Wide Wall Display

The Advent calendar in Glow Blogs has now 15 wee activities for mid-upper primary. 5 minutes of Christmas fun or a brain break for each day. New ones appear at 1 minute past midnight.

I have learnt a bit about the Site Editor when making the Calendar page. I used the new, to Glow, Grid Block. Each grid contains a group with a display post shortcode. The Display posts plugin allows me to show a thumbnail for the post published on a particular day. If there are no posts it just shows text of my choice. In this case ‘wait for the date’. The posts are queued up by scheduling.

There is an Advent Calendar in H5P itself, but I like the display post approach.

Each post has a simple H5P activity. Matching games, quizzes and the like.The Site Editor in Glow blogs is a really powerful tool for creating different looks. I’ve enjoyed testing the cover block a bit this weekend.

Artificial Intelligence⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

Artificial Intelligence – West Lothian Digital Learning Team

Included in this article:

  • What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
  • West Lothian Guidance
  • How are we using AI already? 
  • Professional Learning

Nice example of professional learning blog covering AI from the West Lothian Digital Learning Team. Concise with examples, local advice and a curated set of links for further reading, listening & thinking.

Elements of a good Picture⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

We decided to use what we have learned about composition, space, light, scale and colour to capture areas of the school in photographs. Here are some of the results. Which element do you think is strongest?

Elements of a good Picture – Superpower of Looking

From the blog: Superpower of Looking – Work inspired by the paintings.

Arnage School Develop The Superpower of Looking

We have been piloting the Super Power of Looking lessons from Art UK. We focused on everyday objects for our first series of lessons. We looked at a different theme each week and created something of our own inspired by the painting we were looking at and the theme.

Kilsyth Academy – 70 Years 1954 to 2024⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

In 2024 Kilsyth Academy will celebrate 70 years from the official opening date.

As former and current pupils, we know you will have lots of memories and memorabilia spanning those years. Every memory, is a special memory. and should be celebrated. We are hoping to get as much history as we can, so we can add them into our celebrations. 70 years of Kilsyth Academy.

Kilsyth Academy – 70 Years 1954 to 2024

Lovely idea for a blog, showing memories of the school for the past 50 years.

Tuesday 25th June by Grace Clark⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

This is just one post from St Benedict’s High School Malawi Visit June 2024. The posts are written by the pupils and give a great view of what is going on. The blog seems to be text only which doesn’t detract from it al all.

Not long afterward we all went to our first class, mine’s was maths. This class filled me with joy as we were learning about stuff that we learn back at home which for a short moment brought us all together and made me forget about the drastic differnce of our lifestyles. My second class was computing science where they where learning about all the keys on the keyboard which initially confused me as I thought it was common sense but then after deeper thought I felt a wave of sadness when I realised that the things that seem so normal to us are like aliens to some people since they aren’t as privileged as us and get access to all types of technology. 

from: Tuesday 25th June by Grace Clark | St Benedict’s High School Malawi Visit June 2024

After the mass we went on a 1 hour minivan ride on the bumpiest; rockiest; most unstable road I have ever been driven through which had mine and Aidans head hitting the roof every 3 minutes, but it’s probably fine and won’t have any noticeable side effects later in life. This road led to a lake which had many animal inhabitants such as monkeys, hippos and gazelle. I found the monkeys to be the best to see as they were the most active and were in larger numbers in comparison to the other animals. 

SUNDAY 23RD JUNE BY AARON RAI

Community readers – The most magnificent thing⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

This blog was active until 2022. It is a great example of a project blog:

This blog records the fantastic reading work which takes place at Kirkhill Primary School and Dechmont Infant School. We love to read and encourage all our families to read and share books for enjoyment as much as possible. While our access to books and ability to share books has been limited over the last eighteen months we have found new ways to celebrate reading.

Community readers – The most magnificent thing | Kirkhill Reads/ Dechmont reads

The blog consists of posts containing videos of different people from the school community reading different books. What a great idea.

Myths and Legends – Port Ellen Primary School⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

Myths and Legends – Port Ellen Primary School

A nice example of a pupil written post and use of embedding google video to show their animation.

What was the mythical creatures called one of them are called penfin and the other is called dogor  the animations were like there was a bad guy and a good guy  who save the day. and they live happily ever after.

Academy9’s Early Birds, inspiring the next David Attenborough?  ⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

As part of the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, which takes place at the end of January each year, the Academy9 team headed to primary schools in Newtonmore, Kingussie, Pitlochry and Aberfeldy to work with P3s on the topic of the great wildlife on their doorsteps. 

In the Early Birds session, pupils learned about the range of birds in the Highlands through three interactive tasks. Ecologists, Joanna & Amy introduced the pupils to a variety of local birds, from Robins to Capercaillies.

Academy9’s Early Birds, inspiring the next David Attenborough? 

Academy9 is an exciting educational initiative from Transport Scotland, linked specifically to the A9 Dualling programme.  

Academy9 has been developed in partnership with all the schools along the A9 corridor in addition to wider communities across Scotland, educational professionals, educational consultants and industry professionals.

Recognising the power of partnerships between industry and education, Academy9 is building a legacy of STEM-related skills and achievement through a series of progressive STEM activities and experiences, providing future generations with the opportunity to learn both hard and soft skills and consider STEM -related careers. 

Academy9 – Building a legacy of STEM related skills and providing future generations to consider STEM related careers

Meet The Team⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

Hi there pupils, parents, teachers and the wider community. I am Callum Charteris, the current head boy of Clydeview Academy, and I am delighted to be able to bring you the new pupil-led online blog,  Clydeview Connect. Together with Mr Wallace and the strong team of bloggers, we cannot wait to get started, bringing you the latest pupil insight on everything going on in our school. We would love to dive straight into the action, but first, let me introduce you to the team!

Meet The Team

Nice to see a blog involving pupils. Interesting to see one that has mixed age groups.