I have been a user of digital technology for many years and joined the Microsoft Educator Community and became a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIEExpert) for the first time 6 years ago.<\/p>\n
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Being part of this community has been invaluable at these times for the transfer of knowledge and sharing of information that takes place on a daily basis.\u00a0 It is heart-warming to be able to ask questions and get answers from other teachers by sharing our expertise amongst the other 90 staff we are in turn able to support others within our school and local authority.\u00a0 We have a weekly Teams call to discuss ideas, share practice and solve problems.<\/p>\n
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I have shared my previous and current experience with my colleagues in school and across the local authority, despite my job role being just a physics teacher.\u00a0 This has led me to achieving trainer status due to the number of hours and level of support provided.<\/p>\n
Colleagues, pupils and parents have shared their thanks for my help and assistance.<\/p>\n In addition to being part of the MIEExpert community I am also part of the physics teacher community as a physics teacher coach for the Institute of Physics Scotland.<\/p>\n We have been holding webinars and meetings to support physics teachers.\u00a0 Helping their wellbeing and providing support to build capacity in use of digital skills and advice on how to plan effective digital lessons.\u00a0 These have been running for a couple of week very successfully with each meeting having at least 50 attendances showing that there is a need for this support.\u00a0 Topics in the staff meeting included SQA estimates as well as other support.<\/p>\n On Tuesday we held a 90 minute workshop on using Microsoft tools and had over 80 attendees.\u00a0 The presenters were all Scottish classroom teachers\u00a0 from across the country:<\/p>\n Mr Burrett, Stewarton Academy, East Ayreshire A Wakelet of resources<\/a> was shared with colleagues with tips and advice.<\/p>\n The session was recorded and details can be found on the Talk Physics website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Feedback from the session was really positive and satisfying.\u00a0 Two that sum up completely positive comments are:<\/p>\n The following day other colleagues in the IOPs physics coaching team gave a session for those using Google classroom tools.<\/p>\n Mr Lawrie, George Watson’s college, Edinburgh Helping educational partners<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Today I have been helping our regional partner from Skills Development Scotland understand how they can use the Teams digital platform to provide careers advice and information to across Tayside.<\/p>\n This post follows a challenging week for myself, I reached out to a colleague sharing these challenges and received the comment from a colleague that I should feel proud of the leadership, compassion and support that I am offering teachers, pupils and parents during these challenging times and that my help and advice guidance have … Continue reading Collaboration and community<\/span> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/digitallearningprototype\/uploads\/sites\/946\/2020\/05\/15211724\/MIE_trainer_19_20_300x344.jpg\")
\u00a0I have created Glow help Teams for pupils and for staff and created videos to show both how to do things within Teams.\u00a0\u00a0Videos on my YouTube channel<\/a> include:<\/p>\n\n
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\nMr Beattie, Inverclyde Academy, Inverclyde
\nMrs Clarke, Queen Anne High School, Fife (Biology\/science)
\nMr McCord, Firrhill High School, Edinburgh<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/digitallearningprototype\/uploads\/sites\/946\/2020\/05\/15213429\/iop-msft.jpg\")
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\nMr Crawshaw, Millburn Academy, Inverness
\nMr Burke, Lochaber, Fort William
\nMr Browett, Aberdeen<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/digitallearningprototype\/uploads\/sites\/946\/2020\/05\/15213428\/iop-goog.jpg\")
\u00a0The Wakelet of resources<\/a> for this Google Classroom webinar are here.\u00a0\u00a0The session was recorded and details can be found on the Talk Physics website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/digitallearningprototype\/uploads\/sites\/946\/2020\/05\/15221336\/Skills-Development-Scotland.jpg\")
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