Digital skills training whenever you need it

Do you want to be more organised, more efficient, create a more collaborative experience for your students? OneNote is the best Microsoft App you are not using. This course will introduce educators to all the innovative features of OneNote and class notebook. Streamline your planning, revolutionise your AFL, organise your resources and save time and money. Join Kojo, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and BAME Fellow for Microsoft Education UK, to learn how to do all this and more with OneNote.

Video recording and video editing are skills that can be used across all curriculum areas? Your learners may be learning about storytelling or script writing, creating fitness videos or maybe they want to be green screened into a volcano for a news report! All of this and more can be done in iMovie! iMovie is a free video editing app that can be used on an iPad or Mac computer. This webinar will show you how to create and edit videos in iMovie including adding music, sound effects and green screen technology. It will feature lots of real-life classroom examples and ideas to spark your imagination and demonstrate the power of iMovie across the curriculum!

With use of technology booming in education, it’s important we are aware of those staff and pupils who can struggle to make full use of the digital tools. In this session we look at the accessibility tools within G Suite, as well as those built into Chromebooks, that help all students make full use of their device and ensure the curriculum is more accessible and your classroom more inclusive.

For those on Microsoft’s platform, you can find our Immersive Reader session in the On Demand area.

With the use of Google Classroom, Drive etc being popular in primary schools, many Foundation Phase/KS1 teachers are trying to work out if the platform is useful for their pupils. The answer? Yes, for sure!

In this session we will focus on ways that Google tools can be of benefit to pupils from Nursery to Year 2 – from pairing activities on Jamboard, to knowing the local area with Google Earth to, believe it or not, spreadsheet tasks on Google Sheets!

Gyda’r defnydd o Google Classroom, Drive ac ati yn boblogaidd mewn ysgolion cynradd, mae nifer o athrawon yn y Cyfnod Sylfaen yn trio gweithio allan os oes defnydd i’r platfform i’w disgyblion nhw. Yr ateb? Oes, yn sicr!

Yn y sesiwn hon byddwn yn canolbwyntio ar ffyrdd y mae cynnigion Google for Education yn gallu bod o fydd i ddisgyblion o’r Meithrin i Flwyddyn 2 – o weithgareddau paru ar Jamboard, i adnabod yr ardal leol gyda Google Earth i, credwch neu beidio, waith ar daenleni Google Sheets!

They say that keeping organised is a journey, not a destination. In other words, there’s never an end to keeping organised, you either keep on top of it or suffer the burden of tasks and messages piling up! For those using the Google platform, Gmail and Calendar are the key tools for keeping organised and in this session we’ll look at best practise in the use of both, as well as showing you around the note taking tool, Keep. This session is aimed at anyone who needs to control their digital life a little better, whether you’re a teacher, classroom assistant, leader or school admin!

This session looks at how technology can be used within the classroom to not just replace current practice, but to enhance and redefine what is possible. We’ll delve into the SAMR model, which can support teachers in their technology integration, from the simple substitution of current practice to the completed transformation of teaching opportunities with pupils. If COVID-19 has taught us one thing it’s that engagement and learner choice is a key component of learning.

Teaching database skills is one that many teachers find difficult, it isn’t a tool we all use day in day out after all. For KS2 teachers, it tends to rank up there with spreadsheets as the digital skill we avoid as much as possible! Join us as we delve into some effective database activities for KS2 pupils that are simple enough for any teacher to implement, whatever your confidence level with technology. We’ll be using J2E and Purple Mash as our key tools in this session.

Assessment comes in all shapes and sizes – from formal exams to question and answers in the classroom. Even in their least formal form, quiz style assessment can feel like a stressful test for students. In this session we’ll look at easy ways to create quizzes that students find fun to engage with. As a bonus, creating such quizzes is so easy, students can create their own to show their understanding and test their peers.

Mae Google Classroom wedi dod yn adnodd hollbwysig i ysgolion yn ystod y cyfnodau cloi. Mae’n bwysig cofio fod Classroom yn declyn defnyddiol i athrawon hyd yn oed pan y byddwn ni nol yn y dosbarth. Yn y sesiwn hwn, byddwn yn edrych ar bopeth sydd gan Classroom i’w gynnig, gan ganolbwyntio ar arfer dda wrth osod gwaith, cyfathrebu a rhoi adborth. Bydd Guto, sy’n hyfforddwr ardystiedig Google, yn sicr o nodi beth sy’n gweithio orau wrth ddysgu o bell, a beth fydd o ddefnydd yn nol yn y dosbarth.

During our time online we, and our students, will come across countless articles, images, sites, videos on topics that interest us. Keeping track of the things we find online to re-visit later or share with our peers and students can be hard. This course will introduce you to the popular content curation app, Wakelet. Learn how to utilise the features of Wakelet to create an innovative approach to teaching and learning. Design engaging lesson plans, provide effective assessment for learning, create resources and digital workspaces for your pupils. Let your pupils create their own collections to aid their research, and to collaborate on those collections with their peers.

Apple Pages is often overlooked as just being ‘another’ word-processing app. In this session we will look at how we can harness its features to create engaging workbooks, comics and much more. Please update your iPadOS and Pages app to the latest versions.

Create sketches, paintings, illustrations and animations on an iPad using Procreate. Procreate allows users to unleash their creativity where educators and learners can express themselves in a fun and engaging way. For educators, procreate allows beautiful resources to be created through an intuitive platform that allows creations to be seamlessly shared. This webinar will give you an introduction to the basics of procreate to allow you to begin your own creative journey by providing tips, tools and tricks for you to use straight away.

Feedback is a vital part of effective teaching and learning. Every teacher knows how feedback can occur naturally in the classroom and in a variety of different forms. Technology can help offer additional means of feedback in the classroom, and can greatly improve distance learning feedback. This session will focus on strategies for giving effective but non-time consuming feedback in the digital classroom, including a look at group and individual feedback, corrective feedback and encouraging pupils to take accountability for their own learning. 

Are you ready to take your use of Flipgrid to the next level? This webinar will build on skills from our previous Flipgrid webinar. It promises to be bursting with fun and engaging Flipgrid ideas to break down the walls of your classroom and create global learning opportunities for the learners in your class. If you’re new to Flipgrid, head over to ‘Empower, Engage & Amplify with Flipgrid’ which is available on demand.

Letting students curate and display the work they are proudest of has been important to teachers for decades. From the wall display, to course portfolios to book sharing – we’ve always needed a way to display work. With digital work coming to the fore, digital portfolios (or ‘eportfolios’) are becoming more and more popular. This course will show you how to make use of Google Sites to support student-owned Digital Portfolios, enabling them to curate their achievements both in school and outside of their school life. Looking at using the portfolios as a space for pupils to purposefully reflect on their learning within different pieces of work.

Reality Composer is an effective Augmented Reality creation tool that allows students and teachers to create imaginative experiences that can redefine teaching and learning opportunities. AR allows users to fully immerse themselves in interactive spaces which can be applied across the curriculum and age ranges.

In session 2 we will explore some of the more advanced features of Reality Composer, such as behaviours, spatial audio and further animation. By the end of this session you will be able to create, enhance and share a wide range of experiences with your students and gain a better understanding of how Augmented Reality can be integrated into teaching and learning.

Do you want to learn how to create visually striking newsletters, presentations and documentation in minutes? Microsoft Sway is your answer to all the above. Save time, captivate your students and create collaborative opportunities for all at your school. Sway brings digital storytelling to life.

Reality Composer is an effective Augmented Reality creation tool that allows students and teachers to create imaginative experiences that can redefine teaching and learning opportunities. AR allows users to fully immerse themselves in interactive spaces which can be applied across the curriculum and age ranges.

In session 1 we will look at some of the basic tools within Reality Composer and how we can create, modify and animate objects. We will begin to explore USDZ files and how these can be created and shared with a wider audience. 

RPG Playground is a free online game creation tool that allows users to make 2D role-playing games. If you want to incorporate elements of gamification and computer science into your classroom in a fun and engaging way this is an exciting way to do it. Learn how to use RPG Playground to make story-driven role-playing video games.