As part of Week 5 we will be challenged to post some audio or video. Here are some resources to help with audio.
A 5 minute introduction to Audacity, a free cross-platform audio recorder.
Let There Be Light!
Scran celebrates National Poetry Day 2015 with a series of movie montages celebrating this year’s theme of light – tying in with the UNESCO Year of Light – and offering inspiration from the archives.
It’s National Poetry Day on Wednesday 8th October. This annual event celebrates poetry in all its forms across the country. This year the theme is light, marking the United Nations International Year of Light 2015.
To celebrate and provide inspiration for your own creative works, Scran has delved deep into its digital collections and found a range of material which explores light in interesting ways. Three two-minute movie montages have been created so far, using still images, moving images and sounds from www.scran.ac.uk. These are now available to view on the site.
Light and Dark layers rural landscapes, urban landscapes and seascapes with imagery of Scottish skies showing the changing light at different times of day. Human experiences are evoked through film and oral testimony and include torchlit processions and memories of wartime blackouts. Poetry and song add atmosphere to the piece.
Man Made Light explores ways in which light is generated through a range of human activities, including domestic lighting, lighting for safety at sea and on the roads and light and heat generated through industrial processes. There are Oral testimonies from former factory workers and archive footage is juxtaposed with contemporary colour film.
In Light and Shadows, grainy black and white stills of early 20th century cityscapes are set against the wide open spaces of the Highlands. Human figures and forms in nature cast interesting shadows in their surroundings. Poetry readings echo themes of darkness and light.
There’s a fourth and final movie to come – watch this space for more information.
Watch all the Inspiration from the Archives movies on Scran
Try these other websites to find more resources to support teaching and learning for National Poetry Day 2015: Scottish Poetry Library | Education Scotland
Image taken from Sun being obscured by black clouds © Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust / Comataidh Craolaidh Gaidhlig (sync rights CoG): Copyright owner: Computerised Time-lapse Library. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk
SLF 2015
We are blogging live from the Scottish Learning Festival. Scott, Ellie, Mrs Hunter and I have just presented about how we blog in the classroom . We talked about why we blog, how we organise it and how we write our posts. It was a bit nerve-wracking but we were confident and spoke with a loud clear voice! At the end everybody told us that they enjoyed our presentation and going to look at our blog. We have enjoyed looking at all the stands and we got to control a robot using coding! We also loved getting lots of freebies like pens, badges, bags and pencils!
Read all about it from John Johnson here!
How to Knit using a Loom
HereToday Ellie taught us how to knit using a special loom. Ellie has been busy making lots of knitted hats for babies and we were all really interested in how she made them. Ellie plans to hand them in to a baby unit in our local hospital – how thoughtful! What a wonderful Whinhill girl! Here is a ‘how to’ video so you can learn to knit too!
Here is what Ellie had to say: It was so fun creating my hat ‘how to’ video for you. I love to knit. As I said in the tutorial, I am making the little baby hats for the babies in the hospital. This great idea came to my mind and I thought, why not? You can get all different sizes of looms. It is so handy to have this equipment because if it’s a cold wintery day you never have to go out and buy a hat why not knit one? Thank you so much for watching and if you did watch I hope this tutorial helped you. Please leave a comment below! By Ellie
Making a gallery and inserting a video – Nature
Here is our first gallery.
Here’s a video (or two) we made earlier!
https://animoto.com/play/CeMirB0u5qMgMWPve5jO1w
Nature by Thomas, Cian , Kenneth, Chloe and Lucy
https://animoto.com/play/CdQE33IcpDoP2FMd6WpBKw
Bug Club by Justin, Kylie, Christopher and Ace.
Harvest at Grandtully
Last school year, before the summer holidays we planted tiny seeds in the ground. We gave them some water and pulled out all the weeds so they would get more sunlight. When we came back to school in August all the seeds had grown. This week we have been harvesting our food.
P1 found potatoes
We used our sounds to call them different names ‘t’ for tatties, ‘p’ for potatoes ‘s’ for spuds
We found some very, very tiny carrots
We found lots of neeps!
We are going to put them in our soup for our harvest showcase.
We have two apple trees, we had to pull down the branches and stand on our tip toes to pick the apples. We dried them and wrapped them in newspaper to keep them nice and fresh.
P1 used their drawing skills to tell the story of how they picked the apples.
From P1-3
Our Favourite Website
LI: To find out how to improve a diet
We made up questions for our parents to answer.
Q How much chocolate to you eat per week? A 1 bar of chocolate a day.
Q How many fruit and vegetables do you eat in one day? A About 3 portions a day.
Q Do you always eat breakfast? A Yes.
Q How often do you eat dairy? A Everyday.
Q How often do you eat Protein? A Everyday.
We are going to think of ways to improve our diets and give advice to our parents.
LI: To use rhyme
The nursery was very loud
I saw a big cloud
I saw a big fat mouse
go look for the house
I though why is it not a sunny sky.
By Morgan
LI: To write a book review
Stupid trousers by Susan Gates
This book is about a boy who was called Ross. He was going to his big sister’s wedding as a page boy but he hated the clothes he was to wear but most of all he hated the trousers.
I would recommend this book to everyone in my class, room 6 and for adults.
This book is for 5-13 year olds.
This book is suitable for children.
By Robert, room 6
