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Session Resources: How Digital Tools Can Help with Creating and Presenting

On this page you’ll find everything you need to revisit information from our @FalkirkLiteracy and DigiLearnFalk session ‘How Digital Tools Can Help With Creating and Presenting’. This session focused on tools and features available on iPad that can help children and young people create learning artefacts that present their ideas, it is focused on talking and listening skills. There is a recording of the session on YouTube which can also be found at the bottom of this page.

Session Slides

You can view a PDF copy of the slides below or download them by clicking on the three dots and selecting ‘Download PDF File’. 

 

Additional Content

Our sessions tend to have a lot of live demonstrations within them. The remainder of the page outlines the digital tools covered in the session in a format which can be easily revisited or passed along to colleagues who were unable to attend the session.

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Rehearsing

Rehearsing a traditional style presentation in front of the class or a group can be one of the more challenging areas to support young people in. There is often limited time to allow learners to get one-to-one feedback when rehearsing, it can be difficult to facilitate peer rehearsal in class we often ask young people to rehearse or practice presentations at home. There are a few digital tools which might help encourage rehearsing.

PowerPoint Presenter Coach

PowerPoint Presenter Coach allows you to rehearse presentations and give you feedback on your performance.

Pages Presenter Mode

Pages Presenter Mode allows young people to practice the speech part of their presentation using an auto cue style approach.

Projecting to the Board

Many of us ask children to make some form of presentation on PowerPoint, Google slides or Keynote and then we ask them to present it to the class. Allowing your pupils to share their presentations via Apple TV not only speeds up the sharing process but allows learners to make use of presenter view. Presenter view built into Keynote and PowerPoint allows children to see their slides and their notes at the same time.



PowerPoint

Keynote

Doing this brings together the visual elements and the prepared speech in the form of notes into the same document. Which means that when we are making the presentation, we are thinking about it as a whole entity Which oftentimes makes for a better presentation.

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Podcasting

Podcasting is a significant medium in the modern world with over 504.9 million podcast listeners worldwide in 2024. There are many ways to publish podcasts once you have a completed audio file. Podcasts can be a great way to showcase learning without worrying about being on screen or getting caught up with visuals.

Garageband is an app built into all iPads that allows you to create a podcast. While it might seem overwhelming at first, many schools use GarageBand to create their own podcasts including our very own Carronshore Primary School and St Bernadette’s RC Primary School.

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Session Recording

Here is a full recording of the session for those who wish to watch it again or who missed it.



Case Study: Digital Floorbooks

This case study explores how Carron Primary have been exploring digital floorbooks to capture learning in IDL across their school. Hear from teachers Aimee Allison and Linsey Archibald about their experiences planning for and implementing the move to digital floorbooks.

Context

“As part of our School Improvement Plan 2021/22 we were asked to undertake a test of change in our classrooms, linked to digital learning and relevant to our class. Aimee identified that it was sometimes tricky to evidence learning in IDL in the early years due to active learning and play. So, as a test of change, to both evidence IDL learning whilst also applying skills developed through Apple Teacher Training, she created what is now known as a Digital Floorbook, using Pages.”

What did you do?

“Aimee began a topic in P2, ‘Animals Around The World’ and began documenting the pupils learning journey. This included recording key questions and prior knowledge and then using Pages to record evidence, such as voice recordings, videos and photographs. We were then able to share pupil voice throughout the whole topic whilst easily reflecting back to the key questions and the journey so far. We then were able to link this to planning, E&Os, benchmarks and skills..”

 

Pages

Pages is a core built in iPad app that allows you to create documents. It has the ability to easily and quickly add a range of multimedia content. Pages can be exported to PDF or EPUB making it easy to download and share content with others.

What was the impact?

“The impact was being able to evidence learning journeys, bringing learning to life. It allowed children to lead aspects of their own learning and reflect back on their learning throughout the context. They could instantly see their learning (we use Apple TV to share our digital floor books), which helped improve engagement.”

The examples below are from Linsey’s class and their P5 Digital Floorbook documenting their learning over their Titanic topic.

Screenshots have been inserted from a Padlet activity finding out what learners already know and what they want to find out about the Titanic from the beginning of the topic.

Photographs of pupil physical work have been added alongside the relevant CfE Experiences and Outcomes statements linked to this particular learning activity. 

Learners have made iMovie advertising films to show their understand if persuasive language. These have been airdropped to the teacher who has collected them all across a few pages of the Digital Floorbook.

Pupil Voice

“I like looking back through all our learning and we can still look at it this year too.”

“I loved seeing other people’s work on the board.”

“I enjoyed making up my own animals and making them talk on Chatterpix.”

Where next?

“Due to the success of the initial test of change, this has now become an integral part of our School Improvement Plan. All classes are now using digital floor books to evidence IDL, and our Primary 1 teachers are also using them to document literacy, numeracy and discovery learning. Our P6 and P7 pupils are using digital floor books to record their personal learning journeys too. The floor books are also a collaborative tool across stages and useful to pass on to future teachers so that it is clear what the pupils have covered, allowing for coherence in learning. We are looking at ways that we may be able to share these with parents and carers in the future, which may mean that we explore different platforms for creating the floor books.”