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A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day. 25 examples of the H5p plugin. Example of using the Draw Attention plugin.Evaluating your own practice (educators) – finding and checking information
Assessing your own practice It is important to not only develop effective information literacy skills but also to assess how these can impact our own everyday work. Understanding how information literacy development can bring positive benefits to our pedagogies and to our classrooms is a critical step towards embedding this into our wider everyday professional practice. One approach to this assessment is to utilise an information literacy framework to measure the range and depth of skills at use in a particular setting. Formal frameworks (such as the Media and Information Literacy Alliance’s model) essentially provide the conceptual tools to break down information …Continue reading Evaluating your own practice (educators) – finding and checking information
Evaluating information – finding and checking information
Evaluating information sources Here are a couple of ways children and young people can evaluate sources: Look for clues: Author (are they trustworthy?), Date (is the information still current?), Purpose (does the source inform, sell, persuade or entertain?) Strategy: SIFT – Stop, Investigate source, Find better coverage, Trace claims to original context. Children and young people should always remember to provide sources they use. As well as helping them find reliable information, it adds credibility to their work! Spotting mis- and disinformation Children and young people should check whether any information, from any source, is reliable. While online sources, especially social media sources, are often suspected, even printed books …Continue reading Evaluating information – finding and checking information
Trusted sources – finding and checking information
Trusted sources Children and young people should look for information that is reliable, accurate and credible. They should use sources that are transparent about their information, cite their evidence, and avoid bias or misinformation. This: is essential for learning accurate and reliable information develops critical thinking skills avoids spreading mis- or disinformation supports stronger research, better arguments and more meaningful conversations. Examples of trusted sources include: BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize National Geographic Kids: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com Common Sense Media: https://www.commonsensemedia.org Newsround (BBC): https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround Kiddle (a search engine for children by Google): https://www.kiddle.co Fact Monster: https://www.factmonster.com. * Note about Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org) Wikipedia …Continue reading Trusted sources – finding and checking information
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Advent in Glow Blogs
A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day. 25 examples of the H5p plugin. Example of using the Draw Attention plugin.Canva Embeds in Glow Blogs
Canva embeds are now supported in Glow Blogs.Fixed: PDF Issue
The PDF Issue that recently developed on Glow Blogs has now been fixed. PDFs can now be uploaded as expected without any workarounds.Glow Blogs Update 30 Sep 2025
Glow Blogs has been updated to WordPress 6.8.2. This update is mostly a behind the scenes one, you might not notice much difference.Fixed: PDF problem
An issue with pdf uploaded to Glow Blogs has recently developed. Our developers are looking at the issue to create a fix. The issue is that pdfs uploaded to Glow Blogs are ‘truncated’ to one page. We hope this is fixed soon. There are a few workarounds you can use in the meantime.
