This week we are showing of our digital learning skills. We are doing stories and music in audacity and some of us are going to make adverts to do with Fever and we are also making animations in Scratch. P3 also doing shared stories in word online and adding a picture plus some movies and P1 is going to make a picture in paint, we’re going to publish it on the blog so everyone can see them #dlw16.
Digital Learning Week
Bowmore’s Brilliant Bloggers and The Media Team are both excited to take part in Digital Learning Week. We hope to share what digital learning looks like in our school and we hope to gain some new ideas from other schools. #dlw16
Digital Learning Week 16th- 20th May
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We are joining in Digital learning Week and will post any updates on our website. Lots of great work and it will be showcased.
Above we have learners who are usiing their Glow account to make, store and present homework tasks!! WOW!
Digital Learning Week 2016 – 16th May to 20th May
Nest week is Scotland’s Digital Learning Week and we are looking forward to joining in by sharing some of the work we do and trying some of the challenges which will be set!
Our Partnership With Litchenza Primary in Malawi!
To become Global Citizens and work towards achieving our Rights Respecting School Level 2 award, we have recently linked with a school in Malawi. We have partnered with Litchenza Primary School and we have recently sent them a package called ‘To Litchenza from Whinhill’. In the package we had things like; letters, postcards, banners and photographs to share what life in like in Scotland. In Malawi we learned that they speak Chichewa and we have learned some in class. Moni (hello) Muli Bwanji? (how are you?) Zikomo (thank you) We have lots of fun when we learn about Malawi and Africa! We have learned about children’s rights and that sometimes children don’t always get their rights because of different reasons but they should! Really important rights are; the right to education, the right to shelter and the right to a name, the right to clean water, the right to nutritious food and the right to have rights. We have learned that we have some differences between Scotland and Africa but we also have a lot of things that are the same! It has been good because we are learning about other cultures and comparing them to our own.
We are linked with Malawi because we want to learn more about what school is like for them and share what school is like for us. We have lots of things to share with our school in Malawi. When we sent the package we sent them some of our school jumpers and ties so they can see our school uniform. Litchenza Primary School sent us a package back and we were so excited! In that package there was a handmade crochet shall, some paintings, photographs and a picture of pupils holding a certificate saying Whinhill partnership with Litchenza. The pupils in the picture were wearing the Whinhill jumper we sent them! So far it has been really fun talking to Litchenza and sending them pictures of us doing our learning and getting replies to our letters.
Using ICT to enhance learning in Mid Calder
We are living in a constantly evolving digital world and technology has an impact on nearly every aspect of our lives. And, we are very lucky to be able to use this technology in school to develop skills that will help us in the world of work and in our journey as lifelong learners in our ever advancing world.
Here are some of the ways that we use ICT to enhance our teaching and learning in Mid Calder Primary School:
About this #dlw16 Blog
National Digital Learning Week, #digilearnscot, is running from 16th to 20th May 2016:
Explore the benefits digital learning and teaching can bring to every level of the learner journey. Share your stories of how you’ve been using digital to support, enhance and improve classroom practice. Inspire others and be inspired.
Here on Glow blogs we are hoping to have some digital fun during the week.
This site will:
- Aggregate blog posts about National Digital Learning Week from around Scotland
- Provide some digital challenges for you to blog about.
What You Do
Sign Up
You need a publicly available blog, this can be a Glow blogs but other public blogs will work too.
Before you sign up you need to make a post on your blog with the category #dlw16
More information about signing up on the Sign Up page.
Create Posts
You can blog about any of your Digital Learning Week activities, and/or you can write posts in response to any of our challenges.
What Happens
When you write your posts they are syndicated onto this blog. They will show up on the Posts page.
This means that people can see lots of activity in the same place. Hopefully we will be able to use this to comment on each others posts. If you click on a post here you will be taken to the original blog to comment.
#dlw01 What Does Digital Learning Look Like in Your School
What does digital learning look like in your school?
Your response could be an image, a mind-map, a sway, video or audio podcast or even some words.
You might like to brainstorm both what digital learning looks like in your school and how to share that digitally.
Is digital learning different from other learning?
You can upload images, video and audio to your blog, embed a sway or just write a post. For other content like mind maps you could take a screenshot and embed that as an image.
Post your response to your blog using the category #dlw16 and tag it #dlw01
Remember you need to have Joined in with the #dlw16 blog for your posts to appear here.
The featured immage on this post is Binary, Null, Digital, Silhouette from Pixabay it is used under a CC0 Public Domain license, see: Terms of Service
#DLW02 Icons
An icon, when talked about in computing, is a picture which usually stands for a computer program, computer file, folder, or an action for a program to do. Icons are usually small pictures, but not always. Sometimes the user can change what size an icon is. Computer icon – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
We see icons everywhere.
Could you design an icon?
Things to think about:
What makes a good icon? Shape? Colour?
Susan Kare, who designed the original apple logo says:
Good icons should be more like road signs than illustrations, easily comprehensible, and not cluttered with extraneous detail
For this challenge we want you to design an icon. It could stand for your school, your class or anything else.
Making Icons
You can create icons with many types of software. They are generally limited in size and made up of pixels. A real challenge would be to make an icon 16 by 16 pixels.
or 32×32
or 64×64
piskel is a webpage that lets you make icons.
You can also make them with Microsoft Paint.
Open Paint
On the Home Tab click Image then Resize.
In the dialog:
- Highlight Pixels
- Uncheck Maintain Aspect Ration
- Set Horizontal & Vertical to 16
The canvas will resize. Set the Zoom to the maximum 800%
Show the Grid: View Check Gridlines
Draw your icon (You can do better than this)
Set the zoom to 100% to see the real size.
You can save your icon as a png and insert it in your blog. How many icons can your class make. you could make a whole set.
Post your response toy your blog using the category #dlw16 and tag it #dlw02
#DLW03 Photoblitz
Most of our photos are digital now. Digital cameras or devices that take digital images are great to use in learning. A photoblitz is a way to give you a chance to practise taking picture.
Use this list to take and think about pictures post them to your blog as a Gallery. Remember to categorise them as dlw16 and tag them dlw03.
- How do ants see the world? Change your viewpoint. Make a photograph with your camera at floor level.
- Pattern is built on repetition, like a rhythm. A regular or irregular pattern.
- Make a photograph that illustrates the weather where you are.
- They’re all around. Make a photograph of a wheel near you.
- Black and white photographs are a classic look.
- A perfect line. Make a photo of interesting vertical, horizontal, or diagonal lines.
- Make a landscape photo!
- Challenge: Silhouettes are an interesting way to abstract a subject.
- Create an interesting photo that includes looking through one object to see another
- A photo representing 100
- The edge of a knife, the waters edge, or some other edge.
Here are some photography tips:
- Hold the camera still, elbows in, make a triangle.
- Think before you shoot
- Take more than one photo
- Change Angles
- Zoom with your feet
- Place the subject off-centre
- Keep the sun behind you (unless you want a silhouette)
- Learn about the rule of thirds
Rule of Thirds photo from wikimedia used under a creative commons CC-BY license.