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Digital Literacy Skills – creating drawings on a mobile device

Our digital devices provide us with the opportunity to draw the world around us. Being able to express their ideas with drawings can make learning more accessible, engaging and meaningful for learners. These are links to sites and resources to support you and your learners with creating digital drawings.

Digital Literacy Skills – creating music and audio on a mobile device

Our digital devices provide us with the opportunity to capture sounds from the world around us. Being able to express their ideas with audio can make learning more accessible, engaging and meaningful for learners. These are links to sites and resources to support you and your learners with creating audio content.

Digital Literacy Skills – creating videos on a mobile device

Our digital devices provide us with the opportunity to capture video from the world around us. Being able to express their ideas with film can make learning more accessible, engaging and meaningful for learners. These are links to sites and resources to support you and your learners with creating video content.

Digital Literacy Skills – taking photos on a mobile device

Our digital devices provide us with the opportunity to capture images from the world around us. Being able to express their ideas with photos can make learning more accessible, engaging and meaningful for learners. These are links to sites and resources to support you and your learners with creating photo content.

Assessing Numeracy and Maths with Forms

Forms can be used to create Quizzes (which allow assessment and feedback) or Forms (which collect information, such as evaluations). They can contain text, images and videos, which makes them engaging and accessible to more learners. A Quiz can also be set with correct answers and this will automatically assess and provide feedback to learners, which is ideal for metacognition. They are easy to duplicate and share between staff which can support moderation, ensure assessment is proportional and comparable between classes or levels.

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CRIS Across the Curriculum: literacy, numeracy and HWB

The internet and interconnected devices play such an important part in all of our lives. Therefore, it’s more important than ever that we help our children and young people stay as safe and as secure as possible. Below are links to ideas for embedding CRIS across different areas of the curriculum, such as literacy, maths and health and wellbeing.

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What is Google Docs?

Google Docs is a tool for creating text documents and can be used to:

  • Create a page of text but can also contain tables and images
  • Support accessibility, with translation, voice typing and text reading
  • Share documents with Glow users and externally with parents and the community

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Find out how to access Google Classroom and Docs in Glow and how to add it to your Glow Launch Pad for quick and easy access.

Find out how to create Google Docs, save your work and type with your voice.

Suggestions on how you can create more engaging worksheets for you learners with text boxes, numbered questions and interactive diagrams.

See how learning tools in Google Docs can make learning more engaging for learners, including AI to find information, translating text to different languages and having Docs read aloud.

Other Google Workspace apps

Upcoming Google Workspace workshops

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What is Google Classroom?

Google Classroom is a digital hub for collaboration.

  • Classroom can be used for communicating with learners, creating and sharing lessons, and assessing learning
  • Find out how you can make the most out of Google Classroom within Glow by watching the videos below

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Joining and creating a Class

What is Stream?

What is Classwork?

Creating Topics in Classwork

Creating an assignment on Classwork

Other assignment types

Using rubrics for assessment

Adding and Accessing from your Glow Launchpad