All posts by Pam McDowall

Adobe Express Update @Dom_Traynor

The Express School Challenges are here! Thanks for being patient with us – the Halloween and Recycling Week challenges are all ready to go.

Here is the latest offering for November (+end of October)

Sign up to the new Adobe Express live lessons below.

Adobe Creative Educator – Teacher Training (English & Cymraeg)

Click below to join a live online Adobe Express training session.

Teach COMPUTING using Express

All 8 NCCE Teach Computing units of work are now complete for Y3-6/P4-7.

Express School Challenges

  • Step 1 – Complete at least 1 project from the Express School Challenges with 100+ pupils or 4 year groups depending on school size
  • Step 2 – Teachers submit evidence of work via our form. On completion of a challenge, Adobe sends swag prizes to your school.
  • Step 3 – If your school completes 3 challenges in an academic year, you receive a pizza party, a Digital Leaders School Award + swag prizes. The organising teacher achieves Adobe Creative Educator School Leader status.

Updated Information for Educators @Glow_Scot

Over the summer break, Glow Scot updated their community rules for educators. This provides information aimed at supporting learners, teachers and parents to develop a good awareness of e-safety and to take full advantage of Glow and the Internet in a positive, safe and responsible way.

This link gives you further information from Glow Connect and the link below is a pdf which can be shared with staff.

Community-Rules-Information-for-Educators-July-2023

Welcome back! #DigiLearnRen

We hope you had a restful October break and wanted to share what is coming up for DigiLearnRen this term!
Course ID Course Date/Time
Use this form to sign up Scotland Google Certified Educator Programme 2024, Level 1

Week 1: Key Essentials in Google Workspace for Education (Docs, Drive, Slides, Sheets)

Week 2: Communication & Collaboration

(Meet, Classroom, Gmail, Groups, Calendar, Forms)

Week 3: Creativity & Engagement

(Sites, Chrome, Youtube, Drawings, Keep)

Week 1: 12/11/24 4.00 – 5.00 pm

Week 2: 19/11/24 4.00 – 5.00 pm

Week 3: 26/11/24 4.00 – 5.00 pm

88092 Apple RTC Session: Augmented Reality Hooks for Writing 30/10/24 4.00 – 5.15 pm
88097 Apple RTC Session: Intro to Swift Playgrounds 06/11/24 4.00 – 5.15 pm
87462 Promethean V7 – V9 Drop-in 13/11/24 2.00 – 5.00 pm
Week commencing 4 November is Computing Science Scotland Weeks – watch this space for more information on how to get involved.