Primary 7 at Southdale Primary School were recently visited by the Sky Up team as they explored the latest teacher-led resource from Sky Up – The Edit.
In the Fiction lessons, learners gain an understanding of the design process behind film trailers and an insight into the skills required to work in the TV, film and media industries. They work collaboratively to produce their own 30-second film trailer, unleashing their creativity and digital skills, with the help of Adobe Express.
A special event to showcase the final trailers will take place soon and we can’t wait to see them!
Sign up to Sky Up and register for The Edit to receive your free lesson guides and resources. Booking are also open to attend the Sky Up Academy Studios with your class.
We would like to share the fantastic digital learning opportunities coming up over the next few weeks.
Live Lessons 4th & 6th February
We are excited to invite P5-S3 classes to join us online for an introduction to the Data Literacy Project with IoT in Schools. Learners will explore data and build digital literacy skills, collecting & analysing data from within their own school. This opportunity is open to all schools with the Internet of Things Data Sensors and is being delivered in collaboration with The University of Edinburgh.
Tuesday 4th February 11am or 1.30pm: Beginners Sessions
Thursday 6th February 9.30am or 1.30pm: Intermediate Sessions (for classes who have explored the sensors before)
If you’d like to be involved, please sign up using this link.
Our Digital Learning Pedagogy Officers will be running bitesize training sessions demonstrating how to use Seesaw effectively for Profiling.
There will be examples of Seesaw Profiles as well as demonstrations of how to use key features, such as the Highlight tool, automatic Translate with Google and how to tag Meta-Skills as Standards.
These sessions are primarily aimed for P1-3 staff, however ELC, SLT or other staff members are welcome to come along too.
No need to sign up, just join the meeting online, through the #Digiken Team.
Adobe Express are continuing to run a wide range of online Live Lessons for classes, as well as teacher training sessions.
ACE Level 1 – Intro to Adobe Express – this session will get you hands on with Adobe Express and talking about creativity in the classroom, how it works and how to foster a creative culture.
We are thrilled to introduce our latest cohort of Promethean Certified Trainers, who are excited to share their knowledge and new expertise of the Promethean panels and the ActivInspire software with their schools and clusters.
This technology can significantly enhance learner engagement, ensuring that learners benefit from more interactive and dynamic educational experiences.
Key takeaways and most impactful learning experiences identified by the participants included:
Promethean tools available on the panels and online (such as spinner, annotate and timer)
ActivInspire tools, tips and hints (such as the use of templates, interactive manipulatives, reveal sliders and overlays)
Laptop and Online tools to boost engagement and collaboration (such as MS Whiteboard, floating keyboard, split screen functionality and MS Accessibility Tools)
Features to enhance productivity (such as importing and annotating PDF’s, exporting lessons as JPEGs or PDFs to share and ability to use the board separately from the laptop)
Congratulations all, we are excited to see how you take this new knowledge forward in your schools.
This afternoon, one of our Digital Pedagogy Officers held a training session with the staff at Seafield Primary, specifically focusing on the Microsoft Learning Accelerators, Microsoft Accessibility Tools, and Adobe Express, to build engagement and support all learners.
Adobe Express offers great opportunities for collaboration, feedback, engagement and creativity. Today, staff explored a number of features, but particularly enjoyed the ‘Animate Your Voice’ function, producing some cute results.
Staff explored how to use or further embed the use of the Microsoft Learning Accelerators and Accessibility tools, to support ALL learners.
The tools we looked at today included:
Reflect
Reading Progress & Reading Coach
Search Progress
Immersive Reader
Dictate
Accessibility within Microsoft Edge
It was great having an in person session. I really liked that it was informative but also informal so we could ask questions specifically relating to our own class or our own level of knowledge. Thanks! Class Teacher
It was great to learn more about Adobe Express and I have now added all pupils in the class with lots of thoughts on how we can use this in the near future.
P6/7 Teacher
We are looking forward to seeing how these tools are used across the school in the near future. Good luck Seafield, and thanks for a great session today.
Class Teacher