What a great Digital Schools session we had this week with DSAS assessor Joanna Maclean, Mhairi McDonald, HT at St Fergus PS and Vhairi Cochrane, HT at Williamsburgh PS.
Both Mhairi and Vhairi shared their digital journey to being awarded the Digital Schools Award. If you want to find out more, check out their presentations below:
Joanna also gave us loads of top tips on what was needed but her main piece of advice is to just go for it! Check out her presentation:
Want to learn more about what your Chromebook can do? Check out our slides below to find out some great features!
Thanks to Louise Jones for sharing these slides.
Looking for some inspiration for #SaferInternetDay? Check out the resources below.
03 February 1600 – 1700, Capture the Flag with Try Hack Me: teacher information session
08 Feb, 10 – 10:45am Safer Internet Day, Live Read-Along with Digiduck author
https://www.barefootcomputing.org/new_resources
Cyber Skill Lessons
Are you using Google forms for learning and teaching? Did you know you can customise the look of your forms? Find out more in our bite-sized video!
Why not come along to our Digital Schools Awards session on Tuesday 1 February to hear all about these awards. A DSAS assessor will be taking you through all you need to know and Williamsburgh Primary will also be sharing their journey to receiving the Digital School Award. Register via CPD Manager, Course ID 77196. We hope to see you there!
Our Digital Learning Champions met this week with George Milliken, Education Scotland, to think about all things Cyber in preparation for Cyber Scotland Week 28 February – 6 March. George shared lots of great National opportunities as well as some useful ideas.
Want to know more? Check out George’s presentation!
Check out our YouTube Channel Playlist to find out how to open Google Forms in Glow and how to use a template!
Interested in learning more about CR-IS? As educators it is our responsibility to ensure our learners are taught how to be cyber resilient and safer online.
Education Scotland are running a series starting on Monday 26 January at 4 pm. It is designed to develop educators’ knowledge of cyber resilience and internet safety skills and knowledge required to support with learners live their best online lives. The other dates in this four-part professional learning programme are 31 January, 28 February and 7 March.
Head to Education Scotland’s digital blog to find out more.
Do you want to learn more about how to use Google Workspace for Education? Our group of Google Educators have been honing their skills using the Howdou training materials with great results! If you would like to know more, please get in touch and we can share the training materials with you. Check out https://www.howdou.net/ for information.
We have a group of staff who are undertaking Apple Teacher badges for the iPad in their own time. We meet every term to share what we have learned and our progress.
If you would like to learn more, please get in touch. You can sign up for Apple Teacher here!
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