Here is the round-up of all our posts throughout March and April. Please download and share with colleagues 😊
DigiLearnRen Latest Round-up
All posts by Pam McDowall
Teams Chat Hint!
I love a wee tip – do you? Check out this handy tip from Glow Connect when sending Teams chat!
Choose your ‘Enter’ key behaviour in Teams Chat Settings
Safer Schools Scotland Launch – 13 May!
Safer Schools is a multi-award-winning safeguarding ecosystem, created to educate, empower and protect your entire school community, in a digital World.
Available at no additional cost to school and Local Authority customers insured by Zurich Municipal, Safer Schools has been developed in partnership with online safety experts, INEQE Safeguarding Group.
Come along on 13 May and hear all about what Safer Schools Scotland has to offer your school and the benefits you can access when you sign up! You can sign up for this session via CPD Manager, Course ID: 94418.
Adobe Express Update
Here’s all the latest Adobe Express news!
Secondary teachers (& primary who want to go further), check out the new Secondary Computing E-book! The primary e-book is always here.
1. Live lessons (English & Cymraeg)
75 minutes long with a natural half time break if you need to leave early. Register for the recording if the dates or times don’t suit and to get pupil certificates. Ideal for ages 7-13.
· 30 April / 1 May – Space Day
· 13/14 May – School Year Transition
· 20/21 May – National Numeracy Day
All account registrations were reset at new year so you may need to register as if for the first time J
2. Express Training Sessions
· Mon 27 Apr – Adobe Express Beginner – Digital Creativity for Early Years Education
· Thur 30 Apr – Adobe Express Advanced – Video, Green Screen, and Audio
· Weds 6 May – Adobe Express Advanced – Infographics with Data & Animation for Student Voice
· Thur 7 May – Adobe Express Beginner – Animation, Video, and A.I.
· Mon 11 May – Adobe Express Beginner – Graphics, Webpage, and A.I.
· Tues 12 May – Adobe Express Advanced – Video, Green Screen, and Audio
· Tues 19 May – Adobe Express Beginner – Animation, Video, and A.I.
· Thur 21 May – Adobe Express Advanced – Infographics with Data & Animation for Student Voice
All account registrations were reset at new year so you may need to register as if for the first time J
4. Video Tutorials & lesson plans
· Drawing – A new video tutorial series of drawings by artist Sketchy Welsh has just started
· Subscribe to the Express tutorial channel to get all the latest videos & live lesson recordings
· Secondary Computing E-book (or primary extension activities) is now available for download
Glow Connect
Did you know that Glow Connect sends out a monthly newsletter which has all sorts of useful information about Glow? To sign up, all you need to do is click on the Scotland tile and scroll down to the Glow Newsletter tile. Click on this to take you to the sign up page and you will get all the information sent directly to you!
AI Champion Educators!
Our seventh AI Champion Educators session is next Wednesday. If you didn’t manage to join our professional learning series on using AI in Glow, we hope you have enjoyed catching up on demand on our YouTube Playlist.
Welcome back!
Welcome back – we hope you all had a restful Easter break! In case you missed our Term 3 update at the end of last term, we have shared it here again for your information. Enjoy!
Term 3 Update 25/26
It has been a full on term in our DigLearnRen community! Thank-you for all your support throughout the session so far.
In the final term we will be launching the new DigiLearnRen site and providing details of what is to come in the new session so watch this space for more information.
To end this term, we will share our Term 3 ThingLink Update which contains all the details of what has been happening this term. Please share with your colleagues.
Professional Learning Needs Consultation
Next session, the Digital Learning Team’s mission is to weave digital tools naturally through every area of the curriculum, making it an effortless and creative part of every school day.
To help your establishment, department or cluster achieve this, we are planning to introduce five key collegiate sessions, plus a bespoke session for our ELCCs. These 1.5 hour sessions are designed to be booked as part of your collegiate calendars, allowing for dedicated, collaborative time to support your digital goals. Our approach is device-agnostic, ensuring every establishment can participate and thrive, regardless of the technology you have in your classrooms.
While our collegiate sessions focus on team growth, we know that individual inspiration is just as important. That’s why these will be offered alongside our Spotlight Sessions, which will be run in collaboration with our Digital Partners. These are standalone opportunities where individuals can sign up to explore specific interests and develop their own unique professional learning journeys, which, in turn, can feed into your improvement journey.
We want to ensure our new Collegiate Sessions and Spotlight Sessions truly meet the needs of your staff and learners.
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts on this new approach. Your feedback will directly shape our final catalogue for the upcoming session.
Let’s transform to innovate, together.
Out of the box iPad ideas
Following last week’s creativity RTC session, I thought it would be useful to share our Apple RTC out of the box ideas for using with your iPads.
There is lots of useful information available on our dedicated RTC site, so check it out here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/renfrewshirertc/
