All posts by Pam McDowall

Scotland Google Certified Educator Programme 2024 #GoogleEDU

Sign up here for Google Level 1 and Level 2 educator certificates in the new session. The registration for this fantastic opportunity to put into action all your GWfE skills opens 11 June so why not sign up?

 

Scotland Certified Educator Programme 2024

Level 1

Week 1: Key Essentials in Google Workspace for Education 

(Docs, Drive, Slides, Sheets)

Tuesday 12th November 4-5pm

Week 2: Communication & Collaboration

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

Tuesday 19th November 4-5pm

Week 3: Creativity & Engagement

(Sites, Chrome, Youtube, Drawings, Keep)

Tuesday 26th November 4-5pm

Level 2

Week 1: Key Essentials in Google Workspace for Education 

(Docs, Drive, Slides, Sheets)

Tuesday 14th January 4-5pm

Week 2: Communication & Collaboration

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

Tuesday 21st January 4-5pm

Week 3: Creativity & Engagement

(Chrome, My Maps, Street VIew, Earth, Youtube, Scholar, Keep)

Tuesday 28th January 4-5pm

 

Scotland L1/L2 Certification Programme One Pager – Google Docs

 

Read&Write for Chrome @texthelp

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Currently, we are running a free trial of Read & Write on the Chromebooks across Renfrewshire and you may have received an email titled FAO Support for Learning: Unlock Literacy Potential for ALL Students with Read&Write (Renfrewshire Council pilot program) offering your school a free demonstration/training session. Please do take them up on this fantastic offer.

Coming soon to Read & Write are these updates: July 2024: Major updates ahead for Read&Write for Google Chrome | Texthelp

Accessibility in Google for Education #GoogleEDU #SDLW24

As we come to the end of Scottish Digital Literacy Week, remember there are plenty of tools that you can use to support learner literacy within Google. This presentation gives you some ideas of the tools available both within Google Workspace and on the Chromebooks. Why not give it a go and share with your learners?

AI Art and Image Generators #SDLW24

Two more useful tools for you to encourage your learners’ digital literacy skills – Craiyon and Ideogram.
Craiyon allows you to create AI art in a range of styles that could be used to illustrate a piece of writing, for character descriptions and much more.
Ideogram is a free-to-use AI tool that generates realistic images, posters, logos and more which could be used as part of presentations.

Remember to always consider the points raised in the challenges and risk section of the West Partnership Scoping Review (see below).

West Partnership AI Resources

Curipod #SDLW24

Curipod is useful for designing lessons, Curipod combines polls, drawings, and word clouds to create interactive and engaging slides quickly. It also allows teachers to collaborate, and can send polls for pupils to complete that display the results to the class. on the board. Check it out at: https://curipod.com/

 

Don’t forget to consider the points raised in the challenges and risk section of the West Partnership Scoping Review (see below).

West Partnership AI Resources