Today we bring you one of Adobe Express’s Guided Lessons to create a festive quilt with your learners. Just follow along with the video and see what you can produce!
#Winterfest2025 – Day 4 Adobe Express
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#Winterfest2025 – Day 3 Notebook LM
Day 3 is a quick guide to using Notebook LM, which is available from your Glow Launch Pad, to create an audio overview for you to use with learners. All you need to do is upload your existing resources and off you go!
This handy guide from Glow Connect will help you get started.
#Winterfest2025 – Day 2 Adobe Express #AdobeEduCreative
Today we are looking at the Adobe Express Live Lessons. Access to Adobe Express is available via the Glow LaunchPad. Check out this guided lesson from Ruth as part of Adobe’s 12 days of creativity!
#Winterfest2025 – Day 1 Book Creator
Check out this fabulous video on creating your own Book Creator Journal. This video is from Ruth Burnett who works with DigiLearnRen 0.2 each week and is one of many we have to share with you throughout December!
#Winterfest2025
It is finally here! Check out all our fabulous ideas for the coming weeks in this Winterfest 2025 ThingLink to inspire you and get you in the festive spirit. We hope you and your learners have fun experimenting with these tools!
We hope you have enjoyed all our videos. Remember to share any of your creations with us using the hashtag #Winterfest2025 and tagging @DigiLearnRen!
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#Winterfest2025
Coming next week, out fabulous collection of ideas for using digital technology with your learners.
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/
