Author: Miss Abercrombie

June 1, 2022

Case Study: What We DIDN’T Do

This case study explores the story of P7 and their teacher Lyndsay McLuckie at Hallglen Primary School in Falkirk and their interesting back to school task exploring what pupils DIDN’T do over their holiday break.

May 25, 2022

Case Study: Angles in Action

This case study tells the story of P6 at St Andrew’s RC Primary School in Falkirk and their teacher Ebony Gray bringing their learning on angles into a real world context with this simple yet effective idea.

April 12, 2022

Notes

A notepad built into your device, with Notes you can capture a quick thought, create checklists, sketch ideas, and more.

April 11, 2022

Keynote

Keynote is a brilliant versatile tool for learning and teaching. Billed as a presentation software Keynote does so much more than you might expect.

April 10, 2022

Effects with GarageBand for iPad

What is it?

A free Pages journal download from Apple Distinguished Educator Eoin Hughes, designed to support learning about effects for recording music and audio in GarageBand

April 6, 2022

Case Study: Podcasting in P6

This case study follows the journey of P6 at St Bernadette’s RC Primary School in Larbert and their teacher Catriona Martin as they explored podcasting as a method to showcase learning in their history topic on the Jacobites.

March 23, 2022

Microsoft Lens

Microsoft Office Lens is a tool which allows you to capture information from documents, whiteboards, business cards, receipts, menus, signs, handwritten memos, or anything else containing text that you want to import but not manually type out yourself.

March 15, 2022

Apple Clips

Looking to make videos in the classroom? Apple Clips is a neat free video-creation app for iPad or iPhone.

July 26, 2021

Microsoft Photos app Video editor

Move over Windows Movie Maker – and start making movies on a PC/laptop with the free Microsoft Photos app! If you previously had been used to using Windows Movie Maker to quickly create videos, you may not even have noticed on devices running Windows 10 and later that you have the latest version of the video editor built right into the Photos app on your PC/laptop.

July 22, 2021

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge web browser has a number of features which make it useful in an educational context. So if you’re not yet using it you might want to have a look, and if you are already using it you may find it worthwhile to explore some of the features you may have yet to discover!