Digital Newsletter – October 2024
Adobe Express for Education
A new creativity app is now available for practitioners and learners in Glow. Adobe Express for Education can be easily accessed single sign-on via a tile in Glow. This exciting new app has a wealth of features to:
- Boost creativity and engagement: Students can bring their ideas to life in a visually appealing way, which can make learning more fun and effective.
- Develop essential skills: Students learn valuable skills like digital literacy, communication, and collaboration.
- Enhance presentations and projects: Students can create presentations and projects that are more visually interesting and impactful.
- Promote teamwork and communication: Students can work together on projects, which can help them develop teamwork and communication skills.
This Autumn term, have your class join an Adobe Express Live Lesson. Aimed at 8-13 year olds, your pupils will learn how to use Adobe Express to create digital media on important dates in the school calendar. Each lesson is 75 minutes long but there’s a natural break right in the middle if you need to head off early.
If you’d like some teacher training on how to get the best out of Adobe Express in the classroom, you can attend a 90 minute virtual session to learn how to use Adobe Express as well as what the creative process looks like both inside and outside the classroom.
Lastly, take a look at this comprehensive list of lesson packs for the 20 most popular curriculum topics. Video tutorials, lesson plans & supporting resources all included.
Promethean Train the Trainer
Over 20 teachers from across the region will be taking part in the Promethean Train the Trainer programme starting just after the October break. The programme will equip them with the knowledge, understanding and skills to support peer training opportunities within their school, and cluster. Participants will attend a number of face-to-face and virtual sessions to obtain certification.
New weekly Digital Quick Tips!
Last Wednesday we launched our new weekly email with a digital quick tip you can watch, read or listen to.
Each week we will provide a 2 minute tip to help you get more out of the digital tools available in every classroom.
If you have any topics you would like covered, please email us at educationict@dumgal.gov.uk with the subject heading ‘Digital Quick Tips!’
Important information!
Over the October break we will be pushing out security updates to all school devices. Therefore, can all devices please be left plugged in, switched on at the wall socket and powered on.
We do not require you to be logged in to a device.
