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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.

cris across the curriculum

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.

google docs word processor

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

google workspace logo

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVu-TKjtvcY&w=560&h=315]

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.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJx2LZlr5Y&w=560&h=315]

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

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvnL_mGzK6o&w=560&h=315]

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

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS9535xa58c&w=560&h=315]

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

google sites web page builder

What is Google Sites?

Google Sites is a tool for creating web pages and websites:

  • Sites can contain a range of media, inlcuding text, images, video and sound
  • Sites can be shared with Glow users and externally with parents and the community

 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg6un2oOZ7k]

google classroom

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

google workspace logo

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A_JllboAEA&w=560&h=315]

Joining and creating a Class

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdzCdckvPn0&w=560&h=315]

What is Stream?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i5NEpuPMzc&w=560&h=315]

What is Classwork?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiu0mBwaaCg&w=560&h=315]

Creating Topics in Classwork

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvZr1jPBt0&w=560&h=315]

Creating an assignment on Classwork

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQ8j06dVEk&w=560&h=315]

Other assignment types

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISFEvDb58Gs&w=560&h=315]

Using rubrics for assessment

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYvcWGi2_T4&w=560&h=315]

Adding and Accessing from your Glow Launchpad