Digital skills training whenever you need it

Designing professional looking posters, leaflets, graphics and presentations used to be left to professionals, whilst the rest of us created simple looking Publisher documents! It’s now easy (and free) for students and teachers to create an exciting piece of media using Canva. Canva is a design tool that will allow and empower anyone to create such documents with minimal effort. In this session, we’ll guide you through the process of how to turn your, and your students, ideas into a finished design in minutes.

Ydych chi’n newydd i Chromebooks, yn ansicr beth y gallant ac na allant eu gwneud? Yn y sesiwn hon byddwn yn darganfod mwy am y dyfeisiau poblogaidd hyn, gan edrych ar yr hyn sy’n debyg i’r cyfrifiaduron Windows / Mac rydych chi wedi arfer â nhw, a beth sy’n wahanol. Byddwn yn plymio i’r ystod o opsiynau hygyrchedd sydd wedi’u cynnwys yn Chromebooks ac yn rhannu awgrymiadau ar eu defnyddio yn effeithiol yn ogystal â rhoi trosolwg o’r math o Chromebooks sydd ar gael.

This course introduces Google Classroom and all the main features. We will guide you through creating your Classroom, setting tasks, sharing resources and giving feedback. We’ll discuss best practise in sharing group work and look at how rubrics can help you set expectations. Finally, we’ll learn about all new features to Google Classroom and explore how to organise assignments and manage your workflow.

Have heard about Minecraft in schools? Not a gamer and have no idea where to start? Fear not, this webinar will walk you through (nice and slowly) how to get started with Minecraft in the classroom! Real-life classroom examples will be scattered throughout the webinar to spark your imagination and demonstrate that Minecraft can be a powerful cross curricular learning tool even with no prior Minecraft experience.

Are you new to Chromebooks, unsure what they can and can’t do? In this session we will take a tour of these popular devices, looking at what is similar to the Windows/Mac computers you’re used to, and what is different. We’ll dive into the range of accessibility options built into Chromebooks and share tips on increasing productivity when using them as well as give an overview of the type of Chromebooks available.

This session introduces Microsoft Teams to those new to using it. All the basic functions will be explained from a teacher and student viewpoint. Learn how to create an efficient, easy to use space for all your teaching and learning. Gain confidence with setting and marking assignments, uploading files and collaborating with staff and students. Learn how Microsoft Teams can help you reduce your workload.

Roedd adeiladu gwefannau yn arfer bod yn waith i’r arbenigwyr – nawr mae’n rhywbeth y gall eich disgyblion ei wneud! Gall creu gwefannau fod yn ffordd o rannu newyddion gyda rhieni a’r gymuned ehangach, ennyn diddordeb myfyrwyr wrth ddysgu o bell, rhannu gwaith gyda’r byd ehangach neu hyd yn oed fel lle preifat i adeiladu portffolio. Yn y sesiwn hon byddwn yn edrych ar ba mor hawdd y gall fod i adeiladu gwefannau gyda Google Sites, a pham ei bod yn werth dysgu’ch myfyrwyr i wneud hynny.

Creating quick, online quizzes or assessments is a great way to check in on your students’ learning, whether they are working from home or in school. Whether it’s a simple end of lesson check in or an important end of unit assessments, Google Forms gives you the power to create self-marking quizzes that can be accessed from any device. In this session, we will guide you through the different type of forms you can create, best practice in making them self-marking and give examples of how useful they can be in your classroom.

Creating videos by recording your screen is a great way to model tasks and for students to share their learning. One tool to achieve this is Screencastify. Using Screencastify will allow teachers to record short tutorials for pupils for assigned activities. Recording their screen can also help pupils record their thoughts/learnings from what they have produced, by giving presentations or reflective practice. 

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.

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.