Schools : April in Review & Hold Still Photo Contest Coronavirus

Hold Still contest

https://www.npg.org.uk/hold-still/

The National Portrait Gallery are asking you to help capture the spirit, the mood, the hopes, the fears and the feelings of the UK as we continue to deal with Coronavirus outbreak.

Completely free and open to all ages and abilities, Hold Still will capture a snapshot of the UK at this time,creating a collective portrait of Lockdown which will reflect resilience and bravery, humour and sadness, creativity and kindness and human tragedy and hope.

Hold Still contest

https://www.npg.org.uk/hold-still/

One hundred shortlisted portraits will feature in a virtual exhibition on the Gallery’s website as a gallery without walls, open to all this August. And a selection of images will also be shown across the UK later in the year.

The images can be captured on phones or cameras and each image will be assessed on the emotion and experience it conveys rather than its photographic quality or technical expertise.

 The closing date for submissions is the 18 June 2020.

credits: Stacey Leanne Connell

https://www.npg.org.uk/hold-still/

This is our six year old. Here he is outdoors, showing the Union Jack he created with finger paints and a pillowcase. This has a rainbow handprint rainbow to show the support to the NHS on VE Day.

Cyprus school reopen 

credits:  Iakovos Hatzistavrou/ Getty Images

https://www.gettyimages.com/

Education:

If you teach in the UK, invite your students to participate at this contest by capture a snapshot from a person of their family, someone they know or see.

To inspire, tell students to explore all the entries so far here

Of course, if you live and teach in another country suffering COVID-19, you can propose to a National Museum the same activity. Or even create a vlog with the participation of your students on the same theme.

And now, time to the review of the most popular posts of April...

Here are the most popular posts of the month:

Children's book : My Hero is You : how kids can fight COVID-19

International Dance Day goes online ! #DanceAtHome !

Ensino : 3º Perídodo : O que há de novo & o EAD

Intl Children's Book Day in a special year ! #StayHome !

#CultureAtHome : World Art Day : resources & activities

Intl Day of Sport for Development & Peace : #BeActiveAtHome !

Hoping you're doing well on the reopening schools. Your students need you! They missed school, classmates and you as a teacher!

If you're already back to school, stay safe!

Hope and resilience! Be kind to those who need you. And patient with your students! It's a difficult time to you and to them.

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” 

Helen Keller

G-Souto

28.05.2020

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Schools : April in review : What a lovely month !

crédits : Roxy Lapassade

https://www.facebook.com/roxylapassade/

Yes! April is a lovely month! Dance Day, Earth Day, Children's Book Day and more.

But May has a beautiful festivity. La fête du Muguet! Wow! I love the flower and its symbols.

As well, at the end of every month I put together a list of the most popular posts. You will find posts written on in English . My usual readers know I write also in French and Portuguese.

And now, it's time to the review of the most popular posts of April:

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

International Children's Book Day ! Let's read ! 

Earth Day : Be the change ! End Plastic Pollution ! 

Harry Potter 20 years in th U.S, new paper books by Brian Selznick 

Celebrating Maya Angelou : Resources 

Girls in Sports : Fanny Blankers-Koen ! 

HCA2018 Winners : Eiko Kadono & Igor Oleynikov : resources 

Intl Dance Day : Time to dance ! 

Wherever you are, I hope you are happy teaching in your country.  Spring is awesome! We take some breath air walking or cycling before to go to the school.

Thanks all the educators from around the world who kindly continue to read my blog every day. 

The classroom must be an open window to the world. Students must feel free to talk and share ideas about all the subjects they care about, in and around every curriculum.

Have a nice time wherever you are! Here, Spring time!

G-Souto

10.05.2018

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April rundown of the most read posts & Claude Shannon !

Claude Shannon

Alfred Eisenstaedt / The Life Picture Collection / Getty

https://www.ias.edu/news/shannon-newyorker

How a hundred years after his birth, Claude Shannon’s fingerprints are on every electronic device we own. Shannon was a Member in the School of Mathematics from 1940–41?

Google Doodle:

Claude Shannon's 100th Birthday

doodler: the artist Nate Swinehart

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Last Saturday, 30 April, Google celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Claude Shannon with an interactive Doodle. The creative Doodle by Nate Swinehart celebrated the brilliance and lightheartedness of the father of modern digital communication.

In its time the Google Doodle has celebrated mathematicians such as, George Boole and Hertha Marks Ayrton - as well codebreaker Alan Turing, the 100th anniversary of whose birth was 23 June 2012.

Now it is the turn of Claude Shannon, who worked with Turing on Allied code breaking during the Second World War - not at Bletchley Park, but in Washington, where Turing had been seconded in 1943 to bring the US up to speed with British crypt analytic developments. 

Claude Shannon

credits: Getty

http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/

Claude Elwood Shannon is often described as the father of the information age who created the term "bit", short for binary digits. 

It's impossible to overstate the legacy of Claude Shannon. The paper he wrote for his master’s thesis is the foundation of electronic digital computing.  

Claude Shannon

Alfred Eisenstaedt / The Life Picture Collection / Getty

https://www.ias.edu/news/shannon-newyorker

His most famous work is A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949) in which Shannon introduced information theory, the branch of mathematics focused on transmitting digital data. 

It was in this masterpiece that he coined the term "bit", the fundamental unit of information which relates to digital certainty: true or false, on or off, yes or no.

Education:

Include this Doodle into your sciences and math curriculum at school and let your students discover the incredible sicentific work of Claude Elwood Shannon's research work as possible.

Discuss with your students the importance of this mathematician to modern digital communication.

I couldn't miss this Doodle (my usual readers know I am a fan of Doodles, a awesome resource to introduce any theme in the classroom) as the introduction of the rundown of the most read posts in April.

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

Schools: Intl Children's Book Day 2016 

Schools: It's Earth Day 2016 : apps & games 

Education: World Book and Copyright Day 2016

Schools, participate ! Girls in ICT Fay 2016 

Éducation: Tout en haut du monde : film animation 

Schools: It's Intl Dance Day? Let's Dance! 

Escolas : Voltemos ao 150º aniversário de Alice 

Hope you enjoyed the different themes and resources published on April on my blog It was a fantastic month full of good themes - books, ICT, arts, environment, animated movies - different pedagogical resources to motivate some of your lessons.

I'm back to posting the normal roundup every week. 

G-Souto 

01.05.2016

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