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This development supports Scottish Government resilience planning but it also aims to model the use of Glow services, tools and nationally procured content to develop creativity skills.

A series of creativity challenges designed around the theme of physical and digital paper have been created with advice from the Scottish Book Trust, National Museums Scotland, Dundee Contemporary Arts and the Creative Networks.

Creativity challenges have been designed for early, first and second level around 4 broad themes

Week 1 – investigating paper and making paper

Week 2 – paper and text

Week 3 – paper structures

Week 4 – embellishing paper

During weeks 5 and 6 learners will be asked to respond to an open ended task. They will use skills and techniques learned during the creativity challenges to create a story – A Paper Trail Tale.

Early level have a different set of challenges from first and second

Early level creativity challenges have been designed around 4 children’s books

Week 1 – Ernest by Catherine Rayner

Week 2 – Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett

Week 3 – The Great Paper Caper by Oliver Jeffers

Week 4 – look after your planet by Lauren Child

Early level creativity challenges will be launched on Tuesday 15th Jan at 11am with a Glow Meet with Catherine Rayner. Catherine will read Ernest and then she will demonstrate how she created the illustrations – this element of the Glow meet would be suitable for older learners as well as this is about art techniques.

Support materials for all texts are being developed using Just2Easy.

For first and second level learners creativity challenges are set around the themes.

There will be a selection of links, images, video clips and Glow meets to support each theme and challenge.

When investigating digital paper Just2easy, Prezi, Stroybird and Scratch will be explored.

Glow meets and forums will be used to develop understanding and creative use.

Newburgh school in Fife will launch the Consolarium Scratch Glow TV channel during this development and it will broadcast for nine weeks.

A number of the video clips that are being used are on YouTube and vimeo, it is hoped that learners would be able to access them at home if this is blocked in your Authority.

The purpose:

Glow has always provided learning spaces for learners and practitioners to learn from and with each other. It has always been and will continue to be about building community.

The paper project depends on community involvement. Therefore to get the community started there is a wee challenge. All members of the community are asked to introduce themselves to the community using paper – to create a PaperME!