Primary Class

P7A meets Mr Mingin!

Today the class met a well known writer called Matthew Fitt! We met him at Waterstones and he read us some of his book Mr Mingin (Mr Stink translated into Scots). Mr Fitt got some of the class to read out some funny scots words and made one of our pupils burp – the LONGEST burp in scots EVER (pardon me!). Once we read the book we all danced to the ‘Shoogly Woogly’ – yi pit yir oxters in, yir oxters oot! While we were reading the book we learnt some new scots words we hadn’t learnt before like dowp (bottom), oxters (arm pits) and lavvy-heid (loser). Mr Fitt gave us a scots copy of the book that he had signed and also gave us a sneak peak at his new translation of ‘Billionaire Boy’, it sounds awesome! The visit was brilliant and we are looking forward to meeting more authors.

Toodles
P7A + The fabulous Miss McCrae :)
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Week 2 Glow Meet and Notes

The recordings of yesterday’s Glow Meets are now online:
2pm Pupils Meet

4:15pm Staff Meet

You need your Glow username and password to view them. Hopefully these will help if you did not make the meeting.

It is easy enough to follow the bootcamp without using the meets, as I hope all necessary instructions are in the weekly blog posts.

Remember all of the information about week two is in the blog post:
Blogging Bootcamp Week 2
Where you can pick up the bio poem template.

I’ve added a post about finding images
Finding Images | Blogging Bootcamp #2
Whit a few suggestions about where to get pictures for your blog. If you know any more leave a comment on that post with a link.

Your bootcamp posts are flowing into the bootcamp blog

Please visit them and leave comments. This can be a good way to model writing online for pupils if you are starting blogging. try to to encourage pupils to write about the suggested challenge topics if they are categorising their posts bootcamp.

Remember posts need to be categorised bootcamp to get pulled into the bootcamp.

Continue reading Week 2 Glow Meet and Notes →

Primary Class

Furry critters

After another cooked breakfast 7b headed out to check their traps set last night… We were in luck with a vole and 5 mice guests in our straw hotels. Who knew mice could jump so high. Boots at the ready for the Cataran Trail and fire starting with flint and steel!

Weather is dull but the kids are not! All good #kindrogan #magnificent7

how to

Finding Images

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Lost Boots by Phil.Renaud Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License

This came up during the week 2 GlowMeet.
Looking for images for your blog leads you into a potential minefield of copyright.
There are many images on the internet that you can use but that come with certain conditions. These conditions may include things like you can use but not edit, or that you must attribute.

Attribution is quite tricky, it means that you must give credit to the photographer and also respect the rest of their conditions. In the example about, I’ve not edited the picture (NoDerivs), I am not making money on this blog(NonCommercial) and I am attributing and linking back to the owner.

This is pretty difficult for adults and more so for younger pupils.

  1. You have three choices:
    Use only your own images. This gives lots of opportunities for creative photography.
  2. Use images that do not need attribution, public domain ones.
  3. Use creative commons and similarly licensed phptoas and learn to attribute.

Here are a few of the many sites that will help you find images you can use.

  • Morguefile.com free stock photos No attribution needed.
  • Pics4Learning | Free photos for education Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting. Instructions given on each image page on how to attribute.
  • Flickr: The Commons and just using the flickr search tools and filtering for creative commons images. There are lots of tools that help you search flickr: my own is A flickr CC search toy
    which allows you to download an image ‘stamped’ with attribution (see the example below). This avoids the need to manually attribute but in no use for headers where you crop the image.IMG_6882a
  • SCRAN is a charity & online learning resource base with over 480,000 images & media from museums, galleries, and archives . Local Authority schools and teachers have full, free access. You need to check attribution and usage rights on any photo you want to use. Update: Feast Your Eyes on Scran | Scranalogue
  • Free Images: Where To Find Royalty Free Stock Photos For Your Blog – Mini-Guide, Part 1 A lot of different sources listed together.
  • Pexels · Free high quality stock photos Many do not need attribution CC0
  • Open Collections | OpenGLAM All collections provide digital scans or photos that can be freely used without any restrictions. We first list the datasets that are completely in the Public Domain: below that we list the sets that are licensed under an open Creative Commons license (CC-BY/CC-BY-SA). The sets within each list have been ordered alphabetically.

‘Portrait of a baby girl’ | Flickr – Photo Sharing!  No known copyright restrictions.

Primary Class

The trappings of a fun trip!

I’m at kindrogan with the whole of primary 7 !

In my room with all my friends and so far we have done , raft building and animal trapping yesterday. I think that we will catch a wood mouse but my friend Nicole wants to catch a vole though so I can’t wait!!!!

We won both raft races and all the people on my team when we were close to the finish line got off!!! I won the last bit of the race on my own ! Today we are doing the low ropes and a big walk

It’s  been a great trip so far !

samantha

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