{"id":15123,"date":"2022-03-25T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digilearn\/?p=15123"},"modified":"2022-03-25T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:18:43","slug":"save-the-pacific-northwest-tree-octopus-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/2022\/03\/25\/save-the-pacific-northwest-tree-octopus-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Pacific Northwest tree octopus activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-text_11\" class=\"builder-section-first builder-section builder-section-text builder-section-next-text builder-text-columns-2 layout-6\" style=\"background-size: cover;background-position: center center\">\n<h3 class=\"builder-text-section-title\">\n        Welcome    <\/h3>\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-text_11-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p>We want to alert you to our very important activity this week: we want the learners of Scotland to help us save the Pacific Northwest tree octopus!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>This website has lots of great info about the octopus and ways for you to help it:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ttfmake-1648214519\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/zapatopi.net\/treeoctopus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">Octopus website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve read a bit more about the octopus &#8211; have a think about how you could use your digital literacy skills to find out more about it and use this info to create some posters, slides and websites to raise awareness of the octopus&#8217; plight and help save it!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-2\" id=\"builder-section-text_11-column-2\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15124\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/myexampleblogversion2\/uploads\/sites\/9784\/2022\/03\/04122307\/treeocto_enlarged-1.jpg\" alt=\"tree octopus\" width=\"280\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-text_1196\" class=\"builder-section-prev-text builder-section builder-section-text builder-section-next-text builder-text-columns-2 layout-9\" style=\"background-size: cover;background-position: center center\">\n<h3 class=\"builder-text-section-title\">\n        Let&#8217;s get started!    <\/h3>\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-text_1196-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p>Wait a minute, though&#8230; tree octopus?<\/p>\n<p>Before you go making any resources we want you to check some things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who created the page and wrote the information?<\/li>\n<li>Does it have pictures or video that show you the tree octopus?<\/li>\n<li>Are there links to other sites about the octopus?\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a id=\"ttfmake-1648476640\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/x-ray-goggles.mouse.org\/\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">See inside the page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-2\" id=\"builder-section-text_1196-column-2\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p><a id=\"ttfmake-1648215202\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/edu.gcfglobal.org\/en\/digital-media-literacy\/judging-online-information\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">Teachers click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-text_1284\" class=\"builder-section-prev-text builder-section builder-section-text builder-section-last builder-text-columns-1\" style=\"background-size: cover;background-position: center center\">\n<h3 class=\"builder-text-section-title\">\n        What next?    <\/h3>\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-text_1284-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p>Hopefully, you spotted the clues that the tree octopus isn&#8217;t real pretty quickly and pointed this out to your teacher!<\/p>\n<p>We think that by learning some of the skills used to make the fake info on this website, you&#8217;ll be better prepared to spot other info like this and know how to check it for accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>We want you to create your own fake animal awareness campaign. You&#8217;ll need to think of an animal and then imagine it living in a biome, or habitat, that isn&#8217;t it&#8217;s natural home&#8230; like a mountain-dwelling narwhal or Arctic elephant!<br \/>Then you&#8217;ll need some facts that sound believable, even though they&#8217;re not true &#8211; so things like what your imaginary animal eats, where it sleeps and how big it is.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you&#8217;ll create some online content, maybe using slides, websites, blogs or even a video.<\/p>\n<p>You can share these with us on twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/digilearnscot\">@DigiLearnScot<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-2\" id=\"builder-section-text_1284-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<h3>Activity 1 &#8211; fact finding and note making<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Use your web browser to find out three (or more) facts about an animal<\/li>\n<li>Then pick a biome it wouldn&#8217;t normally live in and find out three facts about that place and how animals normally survive there<\/li>\n<li>Make notes of this info as you go &#8211; it&#8217;ll come in handy later<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>teachers might want to use some of these ideas to expand upon the features of fake news and unreliable sources:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/edu.gcfglobal.org\/en\/digital-media-literacy\/the-blur-between-facts-and-opinions-in-the-media\/1\/\">Digital Media Literacy: The Blur Between Facts and Opinions in the Media (gcfglobal.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edu.gcfglobal.org\/en\/digital-media-literacy\/what-is-fake-news\/1\/\">Digital Media Literacy: What is Fake News? (gcfglobal.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-3\" id=\"builder-section-text_1284-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p>Activity 2 &#8211; photo manipulation<\/p>\n<p>The photos on the octopus site were faked and so are many other photos online and in newspapers and magazines too.\u00a0<br \/><a id=\"ttfmake-1648215853\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/edu.gcfglobal.org\/en\/digital-media-literacy\/the-problem-with-photo-manipulation\/1\/\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">Read this page to find out more about manipulated photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need fancy software to edit photos, here are some tips:<br \/><a id=\"ttfmake-1648215965\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LoioRVa9rqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">PowerPoint &#8211; remove background<\/a><br \/><a id=\"ttfmake-1648218185\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4KIs5hnHrU\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">Keynote &#8211; instant alpha<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start with a background photo of the place your imaginary animal is going to live &#8211; add it to your app<\/li>\n<li>Then add the photo of your animal<\/li>\n<li>Now, use either the remove background in PowerPoint or instant alpha in Keynote, for example, to cut out any background on your animal picture<\/li>\n<li>It should now look like your animal lives in the place you have as the background<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my mountain-dwelling narwhal from earlier:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15126\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/myexampleblogversion2\/uploads\/sites\/9784\/2022\/03\/04122308\/mountain-narwhal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-4\" id=\"builder-section-text_1284-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p>Activity 3 &#8211; making fake news<\/p>\n<p>You now have an imaginary animal, some facts about it and a photo proving its existence &#8211; now all you need to do is put it together and share it with the world to convince them of it&#8217;s existence!<\/p>\n<p>You could have a look at these:<br \/>https:\/\/www.beano.com\/games\/random-animal-mash-up\u00a0<br \/>https:\/\/switchzoo.com\/newzoo\/zoo.htm\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of great tools for creating and sharing content online, here are just some of them:<br \/><a id=\"ttfmake-1648217744\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3GPlO_GxXzQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">Sway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ttfmake-1648217824\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RKix9lHSFRI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">Glow blogs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ttfmake-1648217841\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=blbE_mSkagY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">Slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ttfmake-1648217864\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #171717;color: #ffffff;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tg6un2oOZ7k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hover-background-color=\"#171717\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">Sites<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait to see your fake news imaginary animals on twitter!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-5\" id=\"builder-section-text_1284-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p>ALL CREDIT FOR THE OCTOPUS CONTENT TO THE SITE&#8217;S OWNER: <a href=\"https:\/\/zapatopi.net\/treeoctopus\/\">Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (zapatopi.net)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome We want to alert you to our very important activity this week: we want the learners of Scotland to help us save the Pacific Northwest tree octopus! \u00a0This website has lots of great info about the octopus and ways for you to help it: Octopus website \u00a0 Once you&#8217;ve read a bit more about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,138,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-literacy","category-information-literacy-learner-digital-literacy","category-waiting","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/myexampleblogversion2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}