Coming next week, out fabulous collection of ideas for using digital technology with your learners.
#Winterfest2025
All posts by Pam McDowall
Glow Connect
Looking for information on all things Glow? Look no further than Glow Connect which provides all the information you need. Their Knowledge Hub has guides to all the tools within Glow, including useful infographics to help you understand more about the tools, like this great guide to Notebook LM which we have shared with our AI Champion Educators.
Adobe Express
If you didn’t manage to come along to our Adobe Express webinar last week, don’t worry. You can catch up here with the recording.
Here is the latest news from Adobe Express:
1. Live lessons (English & Cymraeg)
75 minutes long with a natural break after 45 minutes if you need to leave early. Register for the video recording to use later if the dates or times don’t suit and to get pupil certificates. Ideal for ages 7-13.
. Road Safety Week – 20/21 Nov
· St Andrew’s Day – 27 Nov
· POBBLE 365 LIVE LESSON – 1 Dec
2. Adobe Creative Educator Teacher Training
Join the ACE Leader community here to access extra teaching resources, online community meets and creative challenges with swag prizes.
Sign up for your next Adobe Express teacher training session by clicking below.
· Build your Skills: Templates and Teamwork – 25 Nov
· Get Started with Adobe Express – 2 Dec
3. Express Events & Competitions
· Digital Schoolhouse
o Together with Nintendo Switch, Adobe Express is part of their Creative Careers Competition. We will be joining their webinar on 24th Nov to demo how pupils can use Adobe Express to enter. Register here to join the webinar.
· Schools & Academies Show – Birmingham NEC, 19th November
o We’ll be hosting a panel discussion together with LEO Academy Trust and Uppingham Community College called Creativity in Core Subjects: Insights from Primary and Secondary Schools. Click to attend for free.
4. EBOOK – Useful Lesson Plans
With Remembrance Day and COP30 Climate Change happening this week and next, you might be interested in WW2 Codebreak, WW2 Timeline, Climate Change Awareness Video & Climate Charity Advert lesson activities.
Promethean Panels
Ahead of our drop-in session for Promethean, we thought we would share a useful hint! Thanks to Ciara West at St Catherine’s for sharing this.
Remember if you want to come along to our drop-in, it is at Castlehead HS between 2.00 and 4.30 pm on Wednesday 19 November.
AI Champion Educators 3 Catch-up
This AI Champion session focused on Notebook LM which is available in our Google tenancy in Glow. Check out Education Scotland’s Martin Coutt’s top tips for using here: https://youtu.be/o1a_FuJ_mpU
If you want to learn more, why not use our brand new Wakelet on using Notebook LM and Google Gemini? It has lots of ideas as well as a really handy get started guide created by Education Scotland’s Susan Sey.
We have lots of other Wakelets available. You can find them all here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/digilearnren/clpl-wakelets/
ELC Professional Learning Network October 2025
We have a Professional Learning Network for ELC staff, run in conjunction with Eva Wilkinson from Education Scotland. Eva takes you through each part of the ELC Digital Learning through Play. You can catch-up with the first session here:
Computing Science Week 2025 #CSW25
What are you doing as part of Computing Science Week? Lots of opportunities to code along and join in with Education Scotland. Find out all that is happening here: Computing Science Scotland Week 2025 – DigiLearn
Adobe Express
Ahead of tonight’s Adobe Express session, I thought it would be helpful to share some useful Adobe Express info!
Promethean Drop-In 19 November
Do you have a Promethean panel? Unsure how to make best use of it?
Come along with your questions to our drop-in session at Castlehead High School on 19 November between 2 pm and 4.30 pm where Janice from Promethean will be happy to answer your questions 😊
You can sign up via CPD Manager, Course ID 90573 or just pop-in!
Learn how to code Space Invaders with micro:bit!
Thank-you to Micro:bit Educational Foundation for sharing Champion @MrLovellComp’s @CompAtSch webinar on engaging learners which is now available to view on YouTube:
